Practice question
A claimant proves an ordinary parcel is now alienable and disposable agricultural land, but stipulates that he has not acquired a grant, met any statutory perfection conditions or established any other private title. He argues that the State’s classification alone conclusively completes every person’s acquisition. No native-title or special ancestral claim is involved. Which conclusion follows?
- All persons automatically become co-owners upon classification.
- The proved classification is not a substitute for this claimant’s still-unestablished acquisition basis.
- Any possession of one day is conclusively a perfected statutory title.
- The court must invent a government grant not shown by evidence.
- Alienability is irrelevant even to whether acquisition is legally possible.
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution, Article XII, Sections 2-3: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
- Republic v. Spouses Tan, G.R. No. 232778, August 23, 2023, main decision: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2023/aug2023/gr_232778_2023.html
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