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Heirs of Spouses Reterta vs Spouses Mores 655 SCRA 580

HEIRS OF SPOUSES TEOFILO M. RETERTA and ELISA RETERTA, namely: EDUARDO M. RETERTA, CONSUELO M. RETERTA, and AVELINA M. RETERTA, Petitioners,vs.SPOUSES LORENZO MORES and VIRGINIA LOPEZ, Respondents.

G.R. No. 159941 | 2011-08-17

FIRST DIVISION
D E C I S I O N
 
BERSAMIN, J.:
 
 
The original and exclusive jurisdiction over a complaint for quieting of title and reconveyance involving friar land belongs to either the Regional Trial Court (RTC) or the Municipal Trial Court (MTC). Hence, the dismissal of such a complaint on the ground of lack of jurisdiction due to the land in litis being friar land under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Land Management Bureau (LMB) amounts to manifest grave abuse of discretion that can be corrected through certiorari.
 
 
The petitioners, whose complaint for quieting of title and reconveyance the RTC had dismissed,...