Practice question
An owner installs large direct-view windows only half a meter from adjoining land. He has no title establishing an easement and invokes thirty years of noncompliance as his sole basis for keeping them. No public-way exception applies. What is the proper conclusion?
- Any violation becomes lawful after ten years
- A neighbor’s silence always creates the missing title
- Mere nonobservance of Article 670 distances does not give rise to prescription
- The owner acquires the neighbor’s wall automatically
- The distance requirement applies only to public buildings
Legal references
- Civil Code, Article 670: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/2/53360
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