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Practice question: Prescription

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Practice question

Before any prescriptive period is completed, a possessor expressly recognizes the true owner’s right in a signed statement. It later claims only judicial summons can interrupt, and demands counting the whole period as uninterrupted. Which1125 rule controls?
  1. The possessor’s express or tacit recognition also interrupts possession
  2. Only judicial summons is ever relevant
  3. A signed recognition cannot have any legal effect
  4. Recognition instantly transfers every other property
  5. The owner must ignore the admission

Legal references

  • Civil Code RA386: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html Articles1121–1125 and1132–1133; susceptible private property and no unstated special bar assumed.

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