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

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Practice question

Under Water Code Article 5, who owns rivers and their natural beds?
  1. The nearest shopkeeper
  2. Every adjacent landowner exclusively
  3. The State
  4. The first person to photograph them
  5. Only the finder of a fish

Legal references

  • https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1976/pd_1067_1976.html — Water Code, Articles 3 and 5–8
  • https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html — Constitution, Article XII section 2, State ownership of waters

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