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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).

Fina owns Lot 32, Block 5, in a subdivision. She privately sells the lot to Alma through a private deed, but the tran...

...shcard isolates the core doctrine in Art. 5—mandatory vs. prohibitory rules—by presenting a scenario about the formal requirement for transferring immovable property. It test...

Citations: Civil Code, Art. 5, Civil Code, Art. 1403

Zandra, the owner of Lot No. 12, Block 8, signs a private deed of sale conveying the lot to Niko. The deed is not exe...

...ocused on the core doctrine in Art. 5 about mandatory and prohibitory rules governing property transfers. The scenario uses distinct actors and a different fact pattern to test recognition of a mandatory p...

Citations: Civil Code of the Philippines, Art. 5

Rosa owns Lot 12 in a barangay. She signs a private deed of sale transferring the lot to Ben. The deed is not in a pu...

...a public instrument and is not registered; Ben has not taken possession. Later, Rosa sells the same lot to Cara through another private deed, also without a public instrument or registration. A bank holds a mortgage on...

Citations: Civil Code, Art. 5 (mandatory/prohibitory framework), Civil Code provisions on the need for a public instrument and registration for transfers of immovable property (public-instrument rule and its binding effect on third parties)

Facts: A Filipino passenger on board a Philippine-registered commercial airliner commits theft from another passenger...

...isdiction as limited to territorial land, rely on place-of-commission rules for airspace, or incorrectly claim the registration is irrelevant or that only certain offenses are extraterritorial.

(a) Identify the Operative Fact Doctrine and state the controlling rule governing acts performed under a repealed or...

(a) Identify the Operative Fact Doctrine and state the controlling rule governing acts performed under a repealed or amended law. (b) Apply the doctrine to the following facts: On June 1, 2005, A sold a parcel of land to...

Citations: Civil Code of the Philippines, Art. 7, Operative Fact Doctrine (Philippine jurisprudence)

(a) Identify the Operative Fact Doctrine and state the controlling rule governing acts performed under a repealed or...

(a) Identify the Operative Fact Doctrine and state the controlling rule governing acts performed under a repealed or amended land-registration law. (b) Apply the doctrine to the following facts: On March 15, 2008, S exec...

Citations: Civil Code of the Philippines, Article 7

(a) Identify the Operative Fact Doctrine and state the controlling rule governing acts performed under a repealed or...

(a) Identify the Operative Fact Doctrine and state the controlling rule governing acts performed under a repealed or amended land-registration law. (b) Apply the doctrine to the following facts: On March 7, 2004, A execu...

A Filipino citizen, a medical student named Sara, travels to Spain for internship and commits estafa against a Spanis...

...r the RPC; and the remaining distractors confuse other jurisdictional rules (such as flag-vessel rules or treaty-based limits).

An Act titled the Geospatial and Public Records Modernization Act (GPRMA) was enacted on December 1, 2024 and publish...

An Act titled the Geospatial and Public Records Modernization Act (GPRMA) was enacted on December 1, 2024 and published in the Official Gazette on December 6, 2024. The Act provides: (a) This Act shall take effect on Jan...

Under a hypothetical Land Information Management Act (LIMA) enacted January 30, 2026 and published February 15, 2026,...

Under a hypothetical Land Information Management Act (LIMA) enacted January 30, 2026 and published February 15, 2026, the Act provides: (1) This Act shall take effect fifteen days after its publication; (2) All deeds of...

Under a hypothetical Real Property Recording and Effectivity Act (RPREA) enacted January 25, 2026 and published Febru...

...: (1) This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication; (2) All deeds of sale of real property within its coverage executed after the Act's effectivity must be recorded with the Registry of Deeds within...