Practice question
A pending action directly contests title to a specific registered parcel, and a proper notice of lis pendens is annotated. A purchaser later acquires the parcel and argues that purchasing ends the suit's effect on the property because the purchaser was not originally a party. Which statement is correct?
- The sale automatically defeats the pending adjudication
- The purchaser takes subject to the outcome of the litigation identified by the notice
- Lis pendens automatically adjudicates title for the plaintiff
- The annotation necessarily prohibits every possible transfer
- The buyer's payment automatically cancels the notice
Legal references
- PD 1529 Sections 70 and 76–77: https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1978/pd_1529_1978.html
- Gagoomal v. Spouses Villacorta, GR 192813, January 18, 2012, main decision: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2012/jan2012/gr_192813_2012.html
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