CIVIL LAW:VALID TENDER OF PAYMENT; ENOUGH TO EXERCISE RIGHT OF REPURCHASE.
Since the case at bar involves the exercise of the right to repurchase, a showing that petitioner made a valid tender of payment is sufficient. It is enough that a sincere or genuine tender of payment and not a mock or deceptive one was made. The fact that he deposited the amount of repurchase money with the Clerk of Court was simply an additional security for the petitioner. It was not an essential act that had to be performed after tender of payment was refused by the private respondent although it may serve to indicate the veracity of desire to comply with the obligation.
CRIMINAL LAW:DEFENSE OF DENIAL; CANNOT PREVAIL OVER POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION.
His defense is one of mere denial, and we have time and again held that denial can not prevail over positive identification. And so also, that credibility of witnesses is left to the sound discretion of the judge and in accepting one testimony and rejecting another, he can not be overturned by the appellate tribunal unless he has seriously abused his discretion.
REMEDIAL LAW:MOTIONS; MUST MEET NOTICE REQUIREMENTS;OTHERWISE CONSIDERED A WORTHLESS PIECE OF PAPER. 
Section 4 of Rule 15 of the Rules of Court requires that notice of motion be served by the movant on all parties concerned at least three (3) days before its hearing. Section 5 of the same Rule provides that the notice shall be directed to the parties concerned, and shall state the time and place for the hearing of the motion. A motion which does not meet the requirements of Sections 4 and 5 of Rule 15 of the Rules of Court is considered a worthless piece of paper which the clerk has no right to receive and the court has no authority to act upon. Service of copy of a motion containing notice of the time and place of hearing of said motion is a mandatory requirement.
LABOR LAW:RETURN TO WORK ORDER; NOT A MATTER OF OPTION OR VOLUNTARINESS BUT OF OBLIGATION.
The return to work order does not so much confer a right as it imposes a duty; and while as a right it may be waived, it must be discharged as a duty even against the worker's will. Returning to work in this situation is not a matter of option or voluntariness but of obligation. The worker must return to his job together with his co-workers so the operations of the company can be resumed and it can continue serving the public and promoting its interest.
COMMERCIAL LAW:CORPORATE LAW; NO GENERAL RULE AS TO WHAT CONSTITUTES "DOING" OR "ENGAGING" OR "TRANSACTING" BUSINESS IN THE PHILIPPINES.
There is no general rule or governing principle laid down as to what constitutes "doing" or "engaging in" or "transacting" business in the Philippines. Each case must be judged in the light of its peculiar circumstances. Thus, a foreign corporation with a settling agent in the Philippines which issued twelve marine policies covering different shipments to the Philippines and a foreign corporation which had been collecting premiums on outstanding policies were regarded as doing business here. The acts of these corporations should be distinguished from a single or isolated business transaction or occasional, incidental and casual transactions which do not come within the meaning of the law. Where a single act or transaction, however, is not merely incidental or casual but indicates the foreign corporation's intention to do other business in the Philippines, said single act or transaction constitutes "doing" or "engaging in" or "transacting" business in the Philippines.
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