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TDC vs. Court of Appeals [CONCURRING, AQUINO, J.]

TAHANAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, petitioner, vs. THE COURT OF APPEALS; HON. MANUEL E. VALENZUELA, THE DIRECTOR OF LANDS, NICOLAS A. PASCUAL, CRISANTO F. PASCUAL, ANSELMO F. PASCUAL, MAMERTO F. PASCUAL, PASCUALA A. MEJIA, DAMIANA A. MEJIA, CIRILO S. PASCUAL, and CATALINA S. PASCUAL, respondents.

G.R. No. 55771 | 1982-11-15

CONCURRING
 
AQUINO, J.:
 
I concur in the result. This is a landgrabbing case. Landgrabbing may be perpetrated by (1) actual and physical usurpation, (2) expanded survey, (3) fake Spanish titles and (4) reconstitution of fake Torrens titles, registration decrees or judgments in land registration cases.
 
The Bernal case, to which this Tahanan case is related, involves the reconstitution of a fictitious Torrens title over parcels of land existing only on paper and which, when verified on the ground, covers land already titled in the names of other persons.
 
The Bernal case. — Demetria Sta....