Practice question
A registered owner seeks cancellation of an adverse claim annotated years earlier. The owner offers only elapsed time and the original claimants' deaths, while their heirs have not been afforded a proper opportunity to address the merits. The owner says the court need not investigate validity. Which response accords with Bella?
- Death and elapsed time conclusively establish invalidity
- The court must not treat lapse alone as decisive and must afford the required hearing and due process concerning validity
- Every heir automatically receives a new certificate
- The adverse claim is immune from all judicial review
- The owner may remove the annotation privately
Legal references
- PD 1529 Sections 70 and 76–77: https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1978/pd_1529_1978.html
- Republic v. Bella, GR 260831, February 26, 2025, main decision: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2025/feb2025/gr_260831_2025.html
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