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Republic of the Philippines Vs. Arcadio Ivan A. Santos III, et al., 685 SCRA 51

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, Petitioner, versus ARCADIO IVAN A. SANTOS III, and ARCADIO C. SANTOS, .JR., Respondents.

G.R. No. 160453 | 2012-11-12

FIRST DIVISION

DECISION 

BERSAMIN, J.: 

By  law,  accretion  - the  gradual  and  imperceptible  deposit  made through the  effects of the current of the water- belongs to the owner of the land  adjacent  to the banks of rivers where it forms. The drying  up  of the river  is  not  accretion.  Hence,  the dried-up river  bed belongs  to  the  State as property of public dominion, not to the riparian owner, unless a law vests the ownership in some other person. 

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