Practice question
A qualified applicant invokes amended section 14(1) in 2026 and proves the required twenty years of qualifying possession of the proper alienable and disposable land, with all other statutory conditions met. Must the applicant additionally prove possession since June 12, 1945 solely because an older version used that date?
- No, the current amendment applies its twenty-year requirement rather than imposing the superseded date as an additional universal condition
- Yes, every current application must satisfy both periods
- Yes, only ancestral possession before 1900 counts
- No, because possession is now wholly irrelevant
- Yes, an examiner may disregard RA 11573
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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