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Practice question: Accion Publiciana

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Practice question

For a 2026 publiciana, the plaintiff provides only a PHP6 million advertised asking price and refuses to establish the applicable assessed value or undeclared-land method. It claims market advertising conclusively satisfies the statutory test. Which is correct?
  1. Every asking price conclusively equals assessed value.
  2. The proper statutory assessed-value basis must be established; an asking price is not automatically that value.
  3. A broker may rewrite the jurisdictional statute.
  4. All assessed values are legally irrelevant.
  5. The plaintiff's preferred court automatically proves its jurisdiction.

Legal references

  • RA11576 Sections1-2, current assessed-value allocation: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2021/ra_11576_2021.html

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