Practice question
A corporation owns the land mortgaged to a bank. Its president and spouse are individual co-debtors. Following a covered extrajudicial foreclosure, the corporation demands the ordinary one-year period solely because individuals also signed the loan. Which analysis follows Limso?
- The presence of any individual debtor always gives corporate property a one-year period.
- The land becomes individually owned because the president signed.
- The president’s age determines the statutory period.
- The corporate ownership of the foreclosed property controls the stated section 47 question; individual co-debtors do not alone remove the shorter juridical-owner rule.
- No redemption rule can apply to corporate land.
Legal references
- https://www.lawphil.net/courts/rules/rc_1-71_civil.html — Rules of Court, Rule 68 sections 2–3.
- https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2024/jan2024/gr_217860_2024.html — Lontoc v Tiglao, GR 217860, January 29 2024, main opinion: equity versus statutory redemption.
- https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2000/ra_8791_2000.html — RA 8791, section 47, bank foreclosure and juridical-person exception.
- https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2013/mar2013/gr_195540_2013.html — Goldenway Merchandising v Equitable PCI Bank, GR 195540, March 13 2013, main opinion: earlier registration or three-month limit.
- https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2016/jan2016/gr_158622_2016.html — Spouses Limso v PNB, GR 158622 and consolidated cases, January 27 2016, main opinion: corporate owner despite individual co-debtors.
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