4/16/2021 E-Library - Information At Your Fingertips: Printer Friendly Section 3, Rule 41 of the 1997 Rules, which provides: `SEC. 3. Period of ordinary appeal. -- The appeal shall be taken within fifteen (15) days from notice of the judgment or final order appealed from. Where a record on appeal is required, the appellant shall file a notice of appeal and a record on appeal within thirty (30) days from notice of the judgment or final order. `The period of appeal shall be interrupted by a timely motion for new trial or reconsideration. No motion for extension of time to file a motion for new trial or reconsideration shall be allowed.' In this light, the appeal was seasonably filed within the 15-day reglementary period. xxxxxxxxx We agree with respondents. In referring to the trial court's `judgment,' respondents were clearly appealing the January 7, 1999 Decision. Had they thought otherwise, they would have referred to the `Order.' Indeed, `judgment' is normally synonymous with `decision.' Furthermore, the wrong date of the appealed judgment may be attributed merely to inadvertence. Such error should not, by itself, deprive respondents of their right to appeal. x x x." Main Issue: Propriety of the Writ of Habeas Corpus Habeas corpus is a writ directed to a person detaining another, commanding the former to produce the body of the latter at a designated time and place.[14] Section 1, Rule 102 of the Rules of Court provides that "the writ of habeas corpus shall extend to all cases of illegal confinement or detention by which any person is deprived of his liberty, or by which the rightful custody of any person is withheld from the person entitled thereto." The objective of the writ is to determine whether the confinement or detention is valid or lawful.[15] If it is, the writ cannot be issued. In the present case, petitioner's confinement is in accord with Section 37 (a) of the Philippine Immigration Act of 1940, as amended, which reads as follows: "Section 37. (a) The following aliens shall be arrested upon the warrant of the Commissioner of Immigration or of another officer designated by him for the purpose and deported upon the warrant of the Commissioner of Immigration after a determination by the Board of Commissioners of the existence of the ground for deportation as charged against the alien: xxxxxxxxx https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocsfriendly/1/51129 4/10