Under Philippine law, judicial confirmation of imperfect land titles originally required possession since time immemorial or 1894, but a 1957 law amended this to require only 30 years of adverse possession. A 1977 presidential decree further amended the law to extend the deadline for filing judicial confirmation applications to 1987 and to require possession since 1945 for applications involving public land.
Under Philippine law, judicial confirmation of imperfect land titles originally required possession since time immemorial or 1894, but a 1957 law amended this to require only 30 years of adverse possession. A 1977 presidential decree further amended the law to extend the deadline for filing judicial confirmation applications to 1987 and to require possession since 1945 for applications involving public land.
Under Philippine law, judicial confirmation of imperfect land titles originally required possession since time immemorial or 1894, but a 1957 law amended this to require only 30 years of adverse possession. A 1977 presidential decree further amended the law to extend the deadline for filing judicial confirmation applications to 1987 and to require possession since 1945 for applications involving public land.
Under Philippine law, judicial confirmation of imperfect land titles originally required possession since time immemorial or 1894, but a 1957 law amended this to require only 30 years of adverse possession. A 1977 presidential decree further amended the law to extend the deadline for filing judicial confirmation applications to 1987 and to require possession since 1945 for applications involving public land.
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Under the public land act, judicial confirmation of imperfect title required
possession en concepto de dueno since time immemorial, or since July 26,
1894. Under CA No. 141, this requirement was retained. However, on June 22, 1957, RA No. 1942 was enacted amending CA No. 141. This latere enactment required adverse possession for a period of only thirty (30) years. On January 25, 1977, the President enacted PD No. 1073, further amending CA No. 141, extending the period for filing applications for judicial confirmation of imperfect or incomplete titles to December 31, 1987. Under this Decree, the provisions of Section 48 (b) and Section 48 (c), Chapter VIII, of the Public Land Act are ehreby amended in the sense that these provisions shall apply only to alienable and disposable land of the public domain which have been in open, continuous, exclusive and notorious possession and occupation by the applicant himself or thru his predecessorin-interest under bonafide claim of acquisition of ownership, since June 12, 1945. (Public Estates Authority vs. Court of Appeals, GR No. 112172, November 20, 2000, First Division, Pardo J.)