Practice question
A litigant brings an agricultural-tenancy dispute to an RTC and argues that every matter concerning agricultural land automatically becomes a just-compensation case for the SAC. No taking or compensation issue is pleaded. Which is best?
- The phrase agricultural land conclusively supplies SAC jurisdiction
- Every tenancy dispute is necessarily a compensation petition
- The actual statutory nature of the dispute must be identified; Section57 does not make SAC the forum for every agrarian matter
- The parties may privately convert any agency case into a SAC case
- No agrarian dispute can ever be adjudicated
Legal references
- RA6657 Sections50 and57: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1988/ra_6657_1988.html
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