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Practice question: Ownership (PD 1067, Arts. 5–8)

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Practice question

A landowner claims water in a swamp on private land is necessarily private merely because the land is titled. Which 6 category answers that claim?
  1. Every titled land parcel automatically includes ownership of all water.
  2. Only lakes are ever addressed by 6.
  3. Swamps have no water classification.
  4. Water in swamps and marshes is expressly State-owned.
  5. The landowner's preferred label repeals the Code.

Legal references

  • Water Code PD1067 Articles5-8 and13-16: https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1976/pd_1067_1976.html

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