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Practice question: Relating to Waters

Multiple Choice Medium Jurisprudence

Practice question

An agricultural riverbank owner invokes Civil Code Article 638 to insist that the public-use easement can only be three meters. Assuming the Water Code agricultural category applies, which width governs under its Article 51?
  1. One meter
  2. Twenty meters
  3. Three meters without exception
  4. No easement because the adjoining land is private
  5. Any width selected solely by the owner

Legal references

  • PD 1067, Articles 51-52: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/26/54002

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