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Dir. Of Lands vs. Court of Appeals, etal.

THE DIRECTOR OF LANDS, petitioner, vs. THE HONORABLE COURT OF APPEALS and IGLESIA NI CRISTO, respondents.

G.R. No. L-56613 | 1988-03-14

D E C I S I O N


FERNAN, J.:

A complaint often heard from parties-litigants is the delay in the resolution of their cases. This is one instance where the delay will perhaps be regarded, at least by one of the parties, as a welcome occurrence for had the case at bar been resolved earlier, the result obtained may have been diametrically and extremely different.

This is one of the several cases** involving the qualification of private respondent Iglesia ni Cristo, a corporation sole, to have an alleged alienable piece of public land registered in its name under the 1973 Constitution.

The antecedents are as follows:

On November 28, 1973,...