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Mariano Laburada, et al. vs. Land Registration Authority, 287 SCRA 333

SPOUSES MARIANO and ERLINDA LABURADA, represented by their attorney-in-fact, MANUEL SANTOS, JR., petitioners, vs. LAND REGISTRATION AUTHORITY, respondent.

G.R. No. 101387 | 1998-03-11

FIRST DIVISION

D E C I S I O N

PANGANIBAN, J: 

In an original land registration proceeding in which applicants have been adjudged to have a registrable title, may the Land Registration Authority (LRA) refuse to issue a decree of registration if it has evidence that the subject land may already be included in an existing Torrens certificate of title? Under this circumstance, may the LRA be compelled by mandamus to issue such decree? 

The Case 

These are the questions confronting this Court in this special civil action for mandamus 1 under Rule 65 which asks this Court to direct the Land Registration Authority (LRA) to issue the...