G.R. No. 173775; G.R. No. 167707 – 568 SCRA 164 – Civil Law – Land Titles and Deeds – Regalian Doctrine – Land Classifications – Boracay Cases – Positive Act by the Government in Reclassifying Lands – No Acquisitive Prescription in Inalienable Lands These are two consolidated cases. G.R. […]
Daily Archives: January 29, 2012
G.R. No. 135385 – 347 SCRA 128 (400 Phil. 904) – Civil Law – Land Titles and Deeds – IPRA Law vis-à-vis Regalian Doctrine Former Justice Isagani Cruz, a noted constitutionalist, assailed the validity of the Republic Act No. 8371 or the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act (IPRA Law) on […]
G.R. No. L-2746 – 7 Phil. 132 – Civil Law – Land Titles and Deeds – Ancestral Domain – Ancestral Land Claim Political Law – Regalian Doctrine On June 23, 1903, Mateo Cariño went to the Court of Land Registration (CLR) to petition his inscription as the owner of a […]
G.R. No. L-56483 – 129 SCRA 513 – Civil Law – Law on Sales – Contract of Sale – Efficacy – Need to Register Sale in the Registry of Deeds – PD 1529 Tomas de Vera was the owner of two parcels of land in Tondo, Manila. In 1961, de […]
G.R. No. L-36249 – 135 SCRA 557 – Civil Law – Law on Sales – Contract of Sale – Ownership – Rescission of a Sales Contract – Unjust Enrichment On November 21, 1964, Chan Lin offered to buy 170 cavans of rice from Aniceto Sandoval at P37.25/sack (P6,332.50). Sandoval agreed; […]
G.R. No. L-56449 – 153 SCRA 412 – Civil Law – Land Titles and Deeds – Essence of Registration in General Jose Ching et al and the Spouses Cesar and Araceli Alvarado were disputing possession over a parcel of land. Ching averred that the Alvarados encroached upon their land. […]