Key legal question
Whether the prior appellate judgment should be rectified for a clerical error in the parties’ surname.
Extracted holding
Yes. The error was a manifest inadvertence and the prior judgment had to be corrected in both its reasoning and dispositive part.
Extracted reasoning
Under Art. 334 CPC, a decision may be rectified when its dispositive part is unclear, contradictory, incomplete, or does not match the reasoning; a patent clerical slip qualifies, and in such a case the judge may rectify without consulting the opposing party.