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Asuncion San Juan vs. Court of Appeals 363 SCRA 450

ASUNCION SAN JUAN, petitioner, vs. COURT OF APPEALS and YOUNG AUTO SUPPLY CO., respondents.

G.R. No. 110055 | 2001-08-20

D E C I S I O N
 
PANGANIBAN, J.:

Can courts validly order the Register of Deeds to annotate a final Certificate of Sale in the Original Certificate of Title and to register such sale, even if the registered owner-mortgagor refuses to surrender the owner's duplicate Certificate of Title?

The Case

This is the main question raised in the Petition for Review before us, assailing the November 20, 1992 Decision[1] of the Court of Appeals[2] (CA) in CA-GR CV No. 18444. The CA affirmed the May 25, 1988 Order[3] of the Regional Trial Court (RTC) of Negros Occidental (Branch 52),[4] which voided the owner's duplicate copy of TCT No....