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Spouses Hu Chuan Hai and Leonica Lim Hu vs. Spouses Renato Unico and Maria Aurora J. Unico

SPOUSES HU CHUAN HAI and LEONCIA LIM HU, Petitioners, versus SPOUSES RENATO UNICO and MARIA AURORA J. UNICO, Respondents.

G.R. No. 146534 | 2009-09-18

R E S O L U T I O N


CORONA, J.:

On December 13, 1978, respondent spouses Renato and Maria Aurora J. Unico purchased a 800-sq. m. residential property covered by TCT No. 236631 in Fairview Park Village, Quezon City from spouses Manuel and Adoracion de los Santos. After fully paying the purchase price, respondents built a house on the land and resided there. Respondents, however, neither registered the sale in the Registry of Deeds nor declared the property in their names for purposes of taxation. They also failed to pay realty taxes.

Due to respondents' tax delinquency, the property was sold at public auction on March 5, 1984 to petitioner...