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COL. FRANCISCO DELA MERCED, substituted by his heirs namely, LUIS CESAR DELA MERCED, BLANQUITA DELA MERCED nee MACATANGAY, and MARIA OLIVIA M. PAREDES, Petitioners,vs.GOVERNMENT SERVICE INSURANCE SYSTEM (GSIS) and Spouses VICTOR and MILAGROS MANLONGAT, Respondents.

COL. FRANCISCO DELA MERCED, substituted by his heirs namely, LUIS CESAR DELA MERCED, BLANQUITA DELA MERCED nee MACATANGAY, and MARIA OLIVIA M. PAREDES, Petitioners, vs. GOVERNMENT SERVICE INSURANCE SYSTEM (GSIS) and Spouses VICTOR and MILAGROS MANLONGAT, Respondents.

G.R. No. 167140 | 2011-11-23

D E C I S I O N
 
DEL CASTILLO, J.:
 
A transferee pendente lite of registered land, whose title bears a notice of a pending litigation involving his transferor’s title to the said land, is bound by the outcome of the litigation, whether it be for or against his transferor.  Given this principle, the modification of the final decision against the transferor in order to include the transferee pendente litedoes not violate the doctrine of immutability of final judgments.  His inclusion does not add to or change the judgment; it is only a legal consequence of the established doctrine that a final judgment...