Practice question
A family occupies land still legally classified as forest land for forty years and pays local property taxes. It claims those facts alone compel private title under amended section 14(1). Which is correct?
- Every forty-year occupation defeats forest classification
- Tax receipts automatically release the land
- A local fence converts it to disposable agricultural land
- RA 11573 privatizes every occupied forest
- The claimed route fails without the required alienable-and-disposable status; occupation and taxes alone do not supply it
Legal references
- https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html — Constitution, Article XII section 2
- https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2021/ra_11573_2021.html — RA 11573, sections 6–7
- https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2022/feb2022/gr_213207_2022.html — Republic v. Pasig Rizal Co., Inc., G.R. No. 213207, February 15, 2022, main opinion
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