Practice question
A community was forcibly displaced during war from territory otherwise satisfying IPRA's ancestral-domain definition. An applicant claims the interruption alone necessarily extinguished its ancestral claim. Which is best?
- Every interruption ends the claim
- War automatically transfers ownership to the applicant
- IPRA expressly recognizes specified involuntary interruptions; displacement alone does not establish the asserted extinguishment
- Only uninterrupted written tax receipts matter
- A private applicant may erase the community's history
Legal references
- Republic Act No. 8371, Chapters I-III, especially Sections 3-11: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1997/ra_8371_1997.html
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