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Leonor De Los Angeles vs. Isidoro O. Santos 120 Phil. 1411

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF LAND. LEONOR DE LOS ANGELES, FEDERICO DE LOS ANGELES, ET AL., applicants-appellants, vs. ISIDORO O. SANTOS, ANTONIO ASTUDILLO, ET AL., THE DIRECTOR OF LANDS and THE PROVINCE OF RIZAL, oppositors-appellees.

G.R. No. L-19615 | 1964-12-24

D E C I S I O N 


BENGZON, J.P., J.: 

Squarely before this Court in this appeal is the important and fundamental question of whether a land registration court which has validly acquired jurisdiction over a parcel of land for registration of title thereto could be divested of said jurisdiction by a subsequent administrative act consisting in the issuance by the Director of Lands of a homestead patent covering the same parcel of land. 

The court a quo held in effect that it could be, as it dismissed the application to register title to the land in its order brought here on appeal. 

On November 21, 1959 an application for...