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Narag vs. Cecilio et al

DOLORES NARAG, plaintiff appellant, vs. SALVADOR CECILIO and ANTONIO CECILIO, defendants-appellees.

G.R. No. L-23408 | 1972-11-24

D E C I S I O N


FERNANDO, J:

The rather crowded docket of this Tribunal in all probability would have been minus this appeal if there were no misapprehension by the lower court as to the requisites that must be satisfied for the acquisition of land through adverse possession. It acted under the erroneous notion that under the applicable law, there is need for a showing of a just title. The controlling statutory provision is anything but that. 1 Moreover, our decisions have uniformly adhered to its literal language. It does follow then that this appeal from an order of dismissal predicated on the absence of a just title in the claim to...