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Manacop vs. Court of Appeals (CA) 277 SCRA 64

FLORANTE F. MANACOP, petitioner vs. COURT OF APPEALS and E & L MERCANTILE, INC., respondents.

G.R. No. 97898 | 1997-08-11

THIRD DIVISION

D E C I S I O N 


PANGANIBAN, J.: 

May a writ of execution of a final and executory judgment issued before the effectivity of the Family Code be executed on a house and lot constituted as a family home under the provision of said Code? 

Statement of the Case 

This is the principal question posed by petitioner in assailing the Decision of Respondent Court of Appeals 1 in CA-G.R. SP No. 18906 promulgated on February 21, 1990 and its Resolution promulgated on March 21, 1991, affirming the orders issued by the trial court commanding the issuance of various writs of execution to enforce the latter's decision in...