Practice question
A private applicant fences an area conclusively identified as shore still within public dominion. The applicant produces decades of tax payments, a private survey and a proposed deed from a neighboring landholder, but no lawful State act changing the shore's status. Which conclusion follows?
- The combined private documents necessarily privatize the shore
- The existing public-dominion character prevents the asserted private registration; those documents do not themselves remove it
- A surveyor may authorize alienation of any shore
- The neighbor may convey every adjacent public area
- Tax payment is equivalent to a legislative grant
Legal references
- Civil Code Articles 420–422 and 1113: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html
- Republic v. Heirs of Laudes, GR 256194, January 31, 2024, main decision: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2024/jan2024/gr_256194_2024.html
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