Practice question
A covered foreign-investor private-land lease is signed, but the parties refuse statutory Registry of Deeds registration and title annotation, asserting private agreement alone satisfies every condition. Which response follows RA 12252?
- Only the contract’s cover design matters
- No public record is ever required
- The amended Act expressly requires registration and annotation subject to its stated conditions
- The lessee may personally act as the Registry of Deeds
- A verbal advertisement is a legal substitute
Legal references
- RA 12252, September 3, 2025, amending RA 7652: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2025/ra_12252_2025.html; Section 2, amended Section 4(5)–(6).
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