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RP vs. R. Sarmiento.

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, Petitioner, versus RESTITUTO SARMIENTO, represented by his attorney-in-fact, MAGDALENO SARMIENTO, Respondent.

G.R. No. 169397. | 2007-03-13

D E C I S I O N
 


CARPIO MORALES, J.:

Restituto Sarmiento (respondent) through his brother-attorney-in-fact Magdaleno Sarmiento (Magdaleno) filed on November 29, 2000 with the Metropolitan Trial Court (MeTC) of Taguig, Metro Manila an application for registration[1] of a parcel of land, delineated as Lot 535-D under Approved Survey Plan Swo-13-000465 with a total land area of 2,664 square meters and located at Barangay Wawa, Taguig, Metro Manila (the lot).

Respondent claimed to have acquired the lot through donation under a Kasulatan ng Pagkakaloob[2] dated July 16, 1988 executed by his father, Placido Sarmiento (Placido), which lot...