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Spouses Danilo and Alberta Domingo, et al. vs. Guillermo Reed

Spouses DANILO and ALBERTA DOMINGO, and EDUARDO QUITEVES, Petitioners, versus GUILLERMO REED, Respondent.

G.R. No. 157701 | 2005-12-09

D E C I S I O N 


PANGANIBAN, J.: 

When dealing with registered land, prospective buyers are normally not required by law to inquire further than what appears on the face of the Torrens certificate of title on file with the Register of Deeds. Equally settled is the principle, however, that purchasers cannot close their eyes to known facts that should put a reasonable person on guard; they cannot subsequently claim to have acted in good faith, in the belief that there was no defect in the vendor's certificate of title. Their mere refusal to face up to that possibility will not make them innocent purchasers for value, if it later...