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Spouses Alfonso and Maria Angeles Cusi Vs. Lilia V. Domingo Ramona Liza L. De Vera Vs. Lilia V. Domingo, et al.

Spouses Alfonso and Maria Angeles Cusi, Petitioners Vs. Lilia V. Domingo, Respondent Ramona Liza L. De Vera, Petitioner Vs. Lilia V. Domingo, and Spouses Radelia and Alfred Sy, Respondents

G.R. No. 195825 / G.R. No. 195871 | 2013-02-27



FIRST DIVISION 

DECISION 

BERSAMIN, J.: 

Under the Torrens system of land registration, the registered owner of realty cannot be deprived of her property through fraud, unless a transferee acquires the property as an innocent purchaser for value. A transferee who acquires the property covered by a reissued owner's copy of the certificate of title without taking the ordinary precautions of honest persons in doing business and examining the records of the proper Registry of Deeds, or who fails to pay the full market value of the property is not considered an innocent purchaser for value. ...