Laws On Land Registration And Public Land Laws Flashcards
Process whereby the state provides a public record of the title itself upon which a prospective purchaser or someone else interested may rely. It is a means to guarantee or confirm the title
Registration
Evidence of the right of the owner or the extent of his interest, and by which means he can maintain control, and as a rule assert right to exclusive possession and enjoyment of property.
Title
An instrument in writing which any real estate or interest therein created, alienate, mortgaged or assigned or by which title to any real estate may be affected in law or equity
Deed
All lands of whatever classification and other natural resources not otherwise appearing to be clearly within private ownership are presumed to belong to the State which is the source of any asserted right to ownership of land
Regalian Doctrine
Exception to the Regalian Doctrine
The Regalian Doctrine does not negate native title to lands held in private ownership since time immemorial.
Question:
On March 1980, Cornelio filed an application for land registration of a parcel of agricultural land. During the trial, Cornelio claimed that he and his predecessors-in- interest had been in open, continuous, uninterrupted, public and adverse possession and occupation of the land for more than 30 years. He likewise introduced a certification, dated February 1981 citing a presidential declaration that on June 1980, the subject matter of the application was declared alienable and disposable agricultural land. If you are the judge, will you grant the application for land registration of Cornelio?
NO, I will not grant the application. To be entitled to register the parcel of land, the applicant must show that the land being applied for is an alienable land. At the time of the filing of the application, the land has not yet been declared alienable by the state.
Refers to pre-conquest rights to lands and domains which, as far back as memory reaches, have been held under a claim of private ownership by Indigenous Cultural Communities/Indigenous People (ICCs/IPs)
Native Title
Originator of the torrens title
Sur Robert Richard Torrens
The Philippines adopted the torrens system on ____, under Act No. 496 or the _
Jan. 1, 1903
The land registration Act
Is registration a mode of acquiring ownership?
Registration is not a mode of acquiring ownership but is merely a procedure to establish evidence of title over realty.
Which court has jurisdiction over land registration cases?
Land registration proceedings and all petitions after original registration of titles are filed with the RTC of the province or city where the land or portion of it lies.
XPNS: MTC have jurisdiction of cases involving
1. Lots without controversy or opposition; and
2. Contestes lots where the assessed value does not exceed 100,000
Mirror Doctrine
Title is sufficient to clain ownership
Modes of Ownership (civil code)
Occupancy
Law
Donation
Tradition
Intellectual Creation
Prescription
Succession
Modes of Acquisition
Public Grant
Acquisitive Prescription
Reclamation (RA 1899)
Acrretion
Voluntary (ex. Sale, donation)
Inheritance (Descent or devise)
*Involuntary (ex. Expropriation, escheat, levy)
Emancipation
When an Original Certificate of Title (OCT) has been issued to an owner by the Register of Deeds for the first time.
Original Registration
When the originally issued land title is cancelled and replaced by another title. This is done in cases of sales or donations, with the new owner being issued a Transfer Certificate of Title (TCT). subsequent All transfers shall be issued with Transfer Certificates.
Subsequent Registration
is valid and enforceable against the whole world. The title, once registered, is considered to be a notice to the whole world. All persons must take notice. No one can plead ignorance of the registration.
Torrens certificate of title
Kinds of Torrens Certificate of Title
OCT
TCT
Patents
first certificate issued in the name of a registered owner covering a parcel of land which had been registered under the torrens system, by virtue of administrative or judicial proceedings.
Original Certificate of Title
subsequent certificate of title pursuant to any deed of transfer or conveyance to another person. The previous certificate shall be stamped “Cancelled”.
Transfer Certificate of Title
only involve public lands which are alienated by the Government, pursuant to the Public Land Act.
Patents
KINDS OF ORIGINAL REGISTRATION
- Judicial/Voluntary/Ordinary filing with the proper court an application by the private individual himself, and
- Administrative/Involuntary/Cadastral compulsory registration initiated by the government, to adjudicate ownership of land and involuntary on the part of the claimants, but they are compelled to substantiate their claim or interest through an answer.
Who may apply for registration?
- Those who by themselves or through their predecessors-in-interest have been in open, continuous, exclusive, and notorious possession and occupation of alienable and disposable lands of the public domain under a bona fide claim of ownership since June 12, 1945, or earlier.
- Those who have acquired ownership over private lands by prescription under the provisions of existing laws;
-Ordinary Prescription = 10 years
-Extraordinary Prescription = 30 years - Those who have acquired ownership of private lands or abandoned river beds by right of accession or accretion under the existing laws; and
- Those who have acquired ownership of land by any other manner provided for by law. (ex. Escheat)
- Where the land is owned in common, all the co-owners shall file the application jointly
Who can register for lands?
Filipino Citizen
(Foreigners can own lands through succession)
Max area for a natural person for lease and for acquisition
Lease: not more 500 hectares
Acquire: not more than 12 has
May foreign corporations own public lands?
Private corporations or associations may not hold alienable lands of public domain except by lease, for a period not exceeding 25 years, renewable for not more than 25 years, and not to exceed 1,000 hectares in area.
XPN: Where at the time the corporation acquired land, its predecessor-in-interest had been in possession and occupation thereof in the manner and for the period prescribed by law as to entitle him to registration in his name, then the proscription against corporation acquiring alienable lands of the public domain except through lease does not apply for the land was no longer public land but private property.
What are Registrable Lands?
Private
Agricultural
Classification of the Public Dominion under the constitution
Agricultural
Forest/timber
Mineral
National Parks
Classifications of public domain under CA 141
Alienable and Disposable
Timberlands
Mineral Lands