In personam proceedings enforce personal rights and obligations against a defendant based on the court's jurisdiction over the person. The purpose is to impose liability directly on the defendant. In rem proceedings determine the status of a particular property and are binding only on the parties involved. Quasi in rem proceedings name an individual defendant but the purpose is to subject their interest in a property to a claim or obligation burdening the property. The judgment only affects the rights of the parties in the case. Examples given include foreclosure, attachment of property, and actions regarding title to land.
In personam proceedings enforce personal rights and obligations against a defendant based on the court's jurisdiction over the person. The purpose is to impose liability directly on the defendant. In rem proceedings determine the status of a particular property and are binding only on the parties involved. Quasi in rem proceedings name an individual defendant but the purpose is to subject their interest in a property to a claim or obligation burdening the property. The judgment only affects the rights of the parties in the case. Examples given include foreclosure, attachment of property, and actions regarding title to land.
In personam proceedings enforce personal rights and obligations against a defendant based on the court's jurisdiction over the person. The purpose is to impose liability directly on the defendant. In rem proceedings determine the status of a particular property and are binding only on the parties involved. Quasi in rem proceedings name an individual defendant but the purpose is to subject their interest in a property to a claim or obligation burdening the property. The judgment only affects the rights of the parties in the case. Examples given include foreclosure, attachment of property, and actions regarding title to land.
A proceeding in personam is a In an action quasi in rem, an
proceeding to enforce personal individual is named a defendant rights and obligations brought and the purpose of the against the person and is based proceeding is to subject his on the jurisdiction of the person, interests to the obligation or although it may involve his right loan burdening the to, or the exercise of ownership property. Actions quasi in of, specific property, or seek to remdeal with the status, compel him to control or dispose ownership or liability of a of it in accordance with the particular property but which are mandate of the court. The intended to operate on these purpose of a proceeding in questions only as between the personam is to impose, through particular parties to the the judgment of a court, some proceedings and not to ascertain responsibility or liability directly or cut off the rights or interests upon the person of the of all possible claimants. The defendant. judgment therein is binding only upon the parties who joined in the action action for reconveyance action for partition, action for A judicial foreclosure proceeding (available to a person whose accounting, attachment, is an action quasi in rem property has been wrongfully foreclosure of mortgage. registered under the Torrens attachment system in anothers name.) An action for annulment of certificate of title is quasi in rem. It is not an action "against a person on the basis of his personal liability,"94 but an action that subjects a persons interest over a property to a burden Action for breach of contract expropriation partition Interpleader Petition for declaration of Foreclosure of chattel mortgage absolute nullity of void marriages and annulment of voidable marriages Recovery of sum of money Petition for legal separation Action for recission of contract Petition for change of name Forcible entry Land registration proceeding Quieting of title Unlawful detainer Probate of will Petition for indirect contempt Petition for relief from judgment or order Petition for certiorari Petition for Prohibition Petition for Mandamus Complaints filed under the Interim Rules of Procedure on Intra-Corporate Controversies, as well as the Answer thereto Election protests or petitions for quo warranto relating to elective municipal and barangay officials filed with the general courts Actions for recovery of real property are in personam. injunction Replevin Support Damages