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RP vs Pilar Estipular

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, petitioner, vs. PILAR ESTIPULAR, respondent.

G.R. No. 136588 | 2000-07-20

D E C I S I O N

PANGANIBAN, J.:

Republic Act No. 26 requires that a petition for reconstitution of a lost or destroyed certificate of title must be published in the Official Gazette and posted at the main entrance of the provincial and the municipal buildings of the place where the property is situated. This requirement is mandatory; strict compliance therewith is jurisdictional. Without such publication and posting at the main entrances of both the municipal and the provincial edifices, the trial court Decision granting the reconstitution is void.

The Case

This is the principle used by this Court in granting the Petition for Review...