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vs.
ROQUE
BORRE
and
ENCARNACION
DELFIN,
petitioners, vs. ANGEL ALPASAN,
HEIRS
OF
MELQUIADES BORRE, EMETERIO BEREBER and
HEIRS OF JOSE AMUNATEGUI and THE CAPIZ COURT
OF FIRST INSTANCE, respondents.
Civil Law; Land Registration; Forest lands, scope and nature of;
Rules on confirmation of imperfect title do not apply unless land
classified as forest is released in an official proclamation.A
forested area classified as forest land of the public domain does not
lose such classification simply because loggers or settlers may have
stripped it
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FIRST DIVISION.
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the foregoing details cannot but justify the conclusion that not
one of the applicants or oppositors had shown that during the
required period of thirty (30) years prescribed by Republic Act 1942
in order for him to have shown a registerable title for the entire
period of thirty (30) years before filing of the application, he had
been in
" 'open, continuous, exclusive and notorious possession and occupation of
agricultural lands of the public domain',
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SCRA 269.)
Action for reversion may be filed by the State where
public land was promised to be sold in a compromise
agreement entered into within the 5-year prohibited period.
(Zambales vs. Court of Appeals, 120 SCRA 897.)
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