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Agnes Gapacan, et al. vs Maria Gapacan Omipet

AGNES GAPACAN, EUGENIA GAPACAN-KIAKI and MARILYN GAPACAN, petitioners, vs. MARIA GAPACAN OMIPET, respondent.

G.R. No. 148943 | 2002-08-15

D E C I S I O N

BELLOSILLO, J.:

Man is bound to his land and will remain so; it is source of his strength, the fountainhead of his life. Yet ownership of this natural resource does not always insure harmony, security and well-being, for many a time it causes divisiveness and dissension within the community, even among the closest of kin. This case depicts the situation contemplated herein.

Paicat Gapacan, a native Igorot of the Kankanai tribe, was the primitive possessor of an unregistered land with an area of 1.0111 hectares situated in Abatan, Bauko, Mt. Province, divided into three (3) parcels of rice land and another parcel planted...