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Question 1

1. CD, married to HR, sold their parcel of land located in Ayala Heights, Quezon City to DX for the amount of P500,000.00. The land is more particularly described in Transfer Certificate of Title No. 45678 in the Registry of Deeds of Quezon City. The parties agreed that all expenses for taxes, registration, transfer and association dues are for the account of DX. Prepare the contract of sale. Use a fictitious name for the notary public. (Do not specify the metes and bounds of the property; just state the TCT no. and the location).

Answer 1

DEED OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:

CD, married to HR, Filipino citizens and residents of Ayala Heights, Quezon City, hereinafter known as the VENDORS and DX, Married to Y, Filipino citizens residents of No. 12 San Andres, Manila, herein after known as the VENDEES have entered into this contract of sale as follows:

1. That the VENDORS are the owners in fee simple title of a parcel of residential land containing an area of 1,000 square meters and covered by Transfer Certificate of Title No. 45678 of the Registry of Deeds of Quezon City;
2. That for and in consideration of the sum of P500,000 duly acknowledge and received by these presents, the VENDORS hereby sell, cede and convey by way of absolute sale to the herein VENDEES, the aforesaid described property;
3. That it is further agreed that all expenses for taxes, registration, transfer and association dues are for the account of DX;

IN WITNESS WHEREOF we have hereunto set our signatures this 29th day of September 1991 in Quezon City.

DX CD
Vendee Vendor

With my marital consent:
HR

__________________________ __________________________
Witness Witness

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES)
) S.S
Quezon City )

On this 29th day of September 1991 personally appeared before me CD, HR, AND DX known to me to be the same persons who executed the foregoing deed and acknowledged that it is their free act and voluntary deed and exhibiting to me their Residence Certificates ad Tax Account Numbers as follows:

__________________________ __________________________
__________________________ __________________________
__________________________ __________________________

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my signature and seal on the day above stated.

JUAN SANTOS
Notary Public
My Commission expires
December 31, 1991

Doc. No. _______ ;
Page No. _______ ;
Book No. _______ ;
Series of 1991.

Question 2

1. A. A jurat in an affidavit attesting to the loss of your driver’s license.

Question 3

B. A certification that a copy of a decision is a true copy.

Question 4

An acknowledgment of a deed of sale involving two parcels of land.

Question 5

1. Distinguish between a Jurat and Acknowledgment. Give an example of each.

Answer 5

A Jurat is the form prescribed for sworn statements or affidavits where no rights of titles are transferred before a notary public. An example of jurat is an affidavit subscribed before a notary public or public official authorized for the purpose.

An acknowledgment is the form executed by the notary public stating that certain document transferring rights or property have been executed by the persons known to him to be the same person, and that it was their free act, and voluntary deed. An example is the acknowledgment in a deed of lease of land.

Question 6

Draft the contract of lease.

Question 7

2. Explain the meaning of – (1.) Counsel de oficio; (2.) Amicus curiae; and (3.) Attorney’s lien.