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Eugenio Bautista, et al vs Susana Mag-Isa Vda. De Villena

EUGENIO BAUTISTA, ROMEO CRUZ and CARMENCITA B. CRUZ, Petitioners, versus SUSANA MAG-ISA Vda. DE VILLENA, Respondent.

G.R. No. 152564 | 2004-09-13

DECISION


PANGANIBAN, J.:

Agrarian laws were enacted to help small farmers uplift their economic status by providing them with a modest standard of living sufficient to meet their needs for food, clothing, shelter and other basic necessities. The law grants them the right to constitute a __________________

* No part. On official leave.

home lot as their dwelling and subsistence. Because it is intimately connected with the tenancy relationship of the landowner and the agricultural lessee, any dispute regarding its transfer, removal or retention falls within the jurisdiction of the DARAB -- the quasi-judicial body specially tasked to...