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Constantino, et al vs. Espiritu

PASTOR B. CONSTANTINO and PASTOR CONSTANTINO, JR., plaintiffs-movants-appellees, vs. HERMINIA ESPIRITU, defendant, NICANOR B. AVES, purchaser-oppositor-appellant.

G.R. No. L-23268 | 1972-06-30

D E C I S I O N


FERNANDO, J:

The crucial issue in this appeal from an order of the lower court, one on which no pronouncement has as yet come from this Tribunal, is the binding effect, if any, of a declaration of nullity of the cancellation of a lis pendens on the rights of an innocent purchaser for value, who had relied on the title of the vendor, with such cancellation duly noted. The answer given by the lower court would consider the reliance as misplaced even as to such vendee, if thereafter such cancellation could be shown to be improper and illegal, resulting in the challenged order requiring that such lis pendens be inscribed in...