Practice question
In Baterna’s transmission-line dangling-area setting, the owners demanded full market value but supplied no reliable actual valuation evidence. Does the main ruling automatically adopt that demand?
- Every dangling area universally receives full current value without proof.
- No; it upheld the stated fifty-percent BIR-zonal consequential-damages treatment in that analogous setting.
- The claimant’s unsupported number necessarily binds the court.
- Every remaining parcel is automatically treated as fully taken in all projects.
- The Court prohibited assessing evidence.
Legal references
- Spouses Baterna v. National Transmission Corp., G.R. No. 276920, January 21, 2026, main decision, operative present-value and postfinality-interest rulings: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2026/jan2026/gr_276920_2026.html
- RA 12289, Sections 3 and 7-8, amending RA 10752 coverage and its renumbered Sections 7-8 on possession and valuation: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/2/99855
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