Spouses Yu Hwa Ping and Mary Gaw vs. Ayala Land, Inc. Summary

SPOUSES YU HWA PING AND MARY GAW, PETITIONERS, VS. AYALA LAND, INC., RESPONDENT. HEIRS OF SPOUSES ANDRES DIAZ AND JOSEFA MIA, PETITIONERS, VS. AYALA LAND, INC., RESPONDENT.

G.R. No. 173120 and G.R. No. 173141 | 2019-04-10

Land titles, errors in the technical description of the title is not treated as clerical, the courts order will order the TCT cancellation and cause the issuance of a new one
Possession of Torrens title (TCT) not conclusive proof of ownership
Land title, P.D. No. 1529 requires the Director of Lands to sign and approve the survey plan for the land applied for, otherwise, the title is void
Land title, it is not the numerical data indicated as the area of the land, but the boundaries or 'metes and bounds' of the property specified in its technical description that is defining
Land title, in case of two certificates of title purporting to include the same land, the earlier date prevails; merely a general rule, not an absolute rule
Land title, when there is an overlapping of boundaries in the titles, a verification or relocation survey must be conducted
When the action for reconveyance is based on a void contract, as when there was no consent on the part of the alleged vendor, the action is imprescriptible

RESOLUTION

PERALTA, J.:

This resolves respondent Ayala Land, Inc.'s (ALI) Second Motion for Reconsideration filed on February 9, 2018 against the July 26, 2017 Decision^[1] of the Court, and ALI's supplement to the motion to refer the instant case to the Court en banc as mandated by the Constitution, on the ground that the said Decision supposedly modified and reversed doctrines and principles of law (on land registration, prescription and Torrens System) previously laid down by the Court in decisions rendered en banc or in Division.

To recall, in the July 26, 2017 Decision, the Court...