Practice question
An occupant seeks title to an ordinary parcel that remains legally classified as forest land. He presents evidence of long occupation, cultivation, and tax payments, but no lawful release into an alienable category or special recognized title. No ancestral-domain or native-title issue is involved. He argues that actual farming itself changed the legal classification. Which analysis is best?
- Tax payments compel a title over all forest land.
- Actual farming is itself a valid governmental reclassification.
- Any long occupation defeats every land classification.
- Cultivation and occupation alone do not legally reclassify the parcel or establish the asserted private acquisition.
- A private surveyor may declare the forest land alienable.
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution, Article XII, sections 2–3, https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
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