Practice question
A prior ejectment judgment provisionally discussed ownership solely to resolve physical possession. A party now seeks a proper final adjudication of title through an ownership-recovery action and is told that every incidental ejectment ownership statement conclusively resolved title forever. Which is correct?
- Every ejectment judgment is automatically a final land-registration decree
- Only the defendant may choose which judgments bind
- Ownership can never be litigated after any possessory case
- Every publiciana action is already an ownership judgment
- The limited ejectment determination does not by itself substitute for final adjudication of ownership in the proper action
Legal references
- https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html — Civil Code, Article 434
- https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2021/ra_11576_2021.html — RA 11576, sections 1–2
- https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2023/jun2023/gr_256924_2023.html — Spouses Veloso v. Banco de Oro Unibank, Inc., G.R. No. 256924, June 14, 2023
- https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2012/nov2012/gr_169380_2012.html — G.R. No. 169380, distinction among ejectment, publiciana and ownership recovery
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