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Art. 5 of the Civil Code classifies certain rules as mandatory or prohibitory. A privately drafted deed purporting to...

Art. 5 of the Civil Code classifies certain rules as mandatory or prohibitory. A privately drafted deed purporting to convey a parcel of land from A to B is executed, but the law requires that transfers of immovable prop...

Citations: Civil Code of the Philippines, Article 5 (on mandatory and prohibitory laws); Civil Code provisions on the formal requirements for transfers of immovable property (public instrument).

Under NCC Art. 8, judicial decisions interpreting or applying laws form part of the law. In 2010, the Supreme Court h...

...CC Art. 8, judicial decisions interpreting or applying laws form part of the law. In 2010, the Supreme Court held that a deed of partition among co-owners A and B is valid and enforceable even if not annotated on the tit...

Under NCC Art. 8, judicial decisions interpreting or applying laws form part of the law. In 2011, the Supreme Court d...

...CC Art. 8, judicial decisions interpreting or applying laws form part of the law. In 2011, the Supreme Court decided in a mortgage case that a mortgage between A (mortgagor) and B (mortgagee) is valid and enforceable eve...

Under NCC Art. 8, judicial decisions interpreting or applying laws form part of the law. In 2012, the Supreme Court d...

...CC Art. 8, judicial decisions interpreting or applying laws form part of the law. In 2012, the Supreme Court decided in a case involving a 25-year lease of agricultural land between Lessor X and Lessee Y that the lease i...

Under NCC Art. 8, judicial decisions interpreting or applying laws form part of the law. In 2012, the Supreme Court h...

...CC Art. 8, judicial decisions interpreting or applying laws form part of the law. In 2012, the Supreme Court held in Santos v. Dizon that a deed of sale of land between A (seller) and B (buyer) is valid and enforceable e...

Under NCC Art. 8, judicial decisions interpreting or applying laws form part of the law. In 2014, the Supreme Court h...

...CC Art. 8, judicial decisions interpreting or applying laws form part of the law. In 2014, the Supreme Court held that a mortgage between A (mortgagor) and B (mortgagee) is valid and enforceable even if the mortgage inst...

In 2013, the Supreme Court held that a private easement of access granted by A over B’s land is valid and enforceable...

In 2013, the Supreme Court held that a private easement of access granted by A over B’s land is valid and enforceable between A and B even if not annotated on the title. In 2019, the Legislature enacted a statute requiri...

In 2011, the Supreme Court held that a prescriptive easement over a neighbour’s land is valid and enforceable between...

...ent is not annotated on title. In 2017, a statute requires annotation of prescriptive easements to affect rights against third parties. In 2023, C, not a party to the 2011 decision, seeks to register the 2011 easement ag...

Citations: Civil Code of the Philippines, Article 8

Facts: A Filipino citizen, Mia, commits theft in Tokyo, Japan. She later returns to the Philippines and is charged th...

...same act. (a) State the controlling doctrine on the territorial reach of Philippine penal laws. (b) For Mia’s act committed abroad, explain whether Philippine penal law may apply to punish her, and what limits or conditi...

Citations: Revised Penal Code (Act No. 3815), Article 14 (Territoriality of Penal Laws), Civil Code of the Philippines, Article 14 (NCC) – context for territorial application in related civil framework (where relevant to the doctrine), Supreme Court rulings interpreting territoriality and extraterritorial application of penal laws (as relied upon in standard bar review materials)

(a) Identify the controlling doctrine under NCC Article 8 about the binding effect of judicial decisions applying or...

...the controlling doctrine under NCC Article 8 about the binding effect of judicial decisions applying or interpreting laws. (b) Distinguish how such decisions bind: (i) the parties to the case; and (ii) third parties and...

Citations: Civil Code, Article 8

(a) Identify the controlling doctrine under NCC Article 8 about the binding effect of judicial decisions applying or...

...the controlling doctrine under NCC Article 8 about the binding effect of judicial decisions applying or interpreting the laws. (b) Distinguish how such decisions bind: (i) the parties to the case; and (ii) third parties...

Citations: Civil Code of the Philippines, Article 8 (Lawphil)

(a) Identify the controlling doctrine under NCC Article 8 about the binding effect of judicial decisions applying or...

...the controlling doctrine under NCC Article 8 about the binding effect of judicial decisions applying or interpreting laws. (b) Distinguish how such a decision binds: (i) the parties to the case; and (ii) third parties an...

Citations: Civil Code of the Philippines, Article 8

(a) Identify the controlling doctrine under NCC Article 8 about the binding effect of judicial decisions applying or...

...the controlling doctrine under NCC Article 8 about the binding effect of judicial decisions applying or interpreting laws. (b) Distinguish how such decisions bind: (i) the parties to the case; and (ii) third parties and...

Citations: Civil Code Article 8

An Act titled the Land Titles Modernization Act (LTMA) was enacted on December 1, 2023 and published in the Official...

...ation Act (LTMA) was enacted on December 1, 2023 and published in the Official Gazette on December 15, 2023. The Act provides: (a) This Act shall take effect on February 1, 2024. (b) For purposes of land title applicatio...

Citations: Civil Code of the Philippines, Art. 2

(a) Identify the controlling doctrine under NCC Article 8 about the binding effect of judicial decisions interpreting...

...the controlling doctrine under NCC Article 8 about the binding effect of judicial decisions interpreting or applying laws. (b) Distinguish how such decisions bind: (i) the parties to the case; and (ii) third parties and...

Citations: Civil Code of the Philippines, Article 8

(a) Identify the controlling doctrine under NCC Article 8 about the binding effect of judicial decisions. (b) Disting...

...the controlling doctrine under NCC Article 8 about the binding effect of judicial decisions. (b) Distinguish how such a decision binds on the parties to the case versus its binding effect on third parties and on land tit...

Citations: Civil Code of the Philippines, Article 8

(a) Under NCC Article 8, what is the controlling doctrine about the binding effect of judicial decisions interpreting...

...Article 8, what is the controlling doctrine about the binding effect of judicial decisions interpreting or applying the laws? (b) Distinguish how such a decision binds: (i) the parties to the case; and (ii) third partie...

Citations: Civil Code of the Philippines, Art. 8

(a) Under the Civil Code, NCC Article 8 governs the binding effect of judicial decisions applying or interpreting law...

(a) Under the Civil Code, NCC Article 8 governs the binding effect of judicial decisions applying or interpreting laws. State the controlling doctrine and its scope of binding force. (b) Distinguish how such judicial dec...

Citations: Civil Code of the Philippines, Article 8

An Act titled the Data Privacy and Land Registry Act (DPLRA) was enacted on April 1, 2026 and published in the Offici...

...egistry Act (DPLRA) was enacted on April 1, 2026 and published in the Official Gazette on April 7, 2026. The Act provides: (a) This Act shall take effect on April 22, 2026 (15 days after publication). (b) For purposes of...

An Act titled the Digital Land Registry Regulation (DLRR) was enacted on August 20, 2024 and published in the Officia...

...Regulation (DLRR) was enacted on August 20, 2024 and published in the Official Gazette on August 28, 2024. The Regulation provides: (a) This Regulation shall take effect on September 15, 2024. (b) For purposes of land ti...

Citations: Civil Code of the Philippines, Art. 2

An Act titled the Land Titling Modernization Act (LTMA) was enacted on May 8, 2024 and published in the Official Gaze...

...ernization Act (LTMA) was enacted on May 8, 2024 and published in the Official Gazette on May 22, 2024. The Act provides: (a) This Act shall take effect on August 15, 2024. (b) For purposes of land title applications, al...

Citations: Civil Code of the Philippines, Article 2

An Act titled the National Land Titles Modernization Act (NLTMA) was enacted on March 1, 2025 and published in the Of...

...ization Act (NLTMA) was enacted on March 1, 2025 and published in the Official Gazette on March 12, 2025. The Act provides: (a) This Act shall take effect on May 1, 2025. (b) For purposes of land title applications, all...

Citations: Civil Code, Art. 2

An Act titled the Public Records Modernization Act (PRMA) was enacted on November 20, 2025 and published in the Offic...

...tion Act (PRMA) was enacted on November 20, 2025 and published in the Official Gazette on November 25, 2025. The Act provides: (a) This Act shall take effect on February 1, 2026. (b) For purposes of land title applicatio...

In 2010, the Supreme Court decided a case involving an option to purchase over Parcel X, holding that the option is v...

...n the title. In 2016, Congress enacted a statute requiring annotation of options to purchase on the title to affect rights against third parties. In 2024, C, not a party to the 2010 decision, seeks to register the 2010 o...