AGRARIAN LAW - UNGOS BOOK NOTES AYAME MATSUMORI ^_^

CARP

SECTION 1: AGRARIAN LAW

all laws that govern and regulate rights and relationship between tenants, agricultural workers, lessees or landowners

(tall),

over agricultural lands

MEANING OF AGRARIAN REFORM

Physical redistribution of lands and the totality of factors and support services designed to lift the economic status of
beneficiaries and all other arrangements alternative to the physical redistribution of the lands, such as

production or profit sharing,

labor administration, and

distribution of shares of stock,

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Allows them to receive a just share of the fruits of the lands they work

Regardless of crop or fruits produced to farmers and regular farmers who are landless and irrespective of tenurial
arrangement

REASON FOR ALTERNATIVES TO LAND DISTRIBUTION

- Confining agrarian reform to land distribution is not feasible because there is not enough agricultural land to be
distributed to every farmer or regular farm workers CARL APPLIES ONLY TO AGRICULTURAL LAND

Lands

Devoted to agricultural activities

Arable and suitable for farming CARL DOES NOT APPLY TO: (CRIM-F)

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Commercial Land 2.

Residential Land 3.

Industrial Land 4.

Mineral Land 5.
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Forest Land
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Section 3

NATALIA REALTY DEV V. DAR (townsite reservation not agricultural land)

Landowner: Natalia Realty Inc.

PD 1637 - Proclaimed 20,312 hectares of land as town site reservation, part of which was the land of Natalia

Antipolo, Montalban, San Mateo

Reason: population overspill in the metropolis

Private landowners were allowed to develop properties into low cost housing subdivisions with reservation

Natalia was allowed by HLURB to develop land into a subdivision

CARL then took effect 9 years later (June 15 1988)

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Natalia sought to cancel DARs Notice of Coverage on

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undeveloped portions of the subdivision

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Natalia claimed that the land was no longer covered by CARL because the PD converted the land to a town site
reservation and was therefor no longer agricultural land

HELD: Undeveloped portions of Natalia properties are NOT covered by the CARL because they are NOT agricultural land.
Agricultural land does NOT include commercial, industrial or residential land. CONSTITUTIONALITY OF CARP

valid exercise of police power SECTION2 PRIMARY OBJECTIVE OF AGRARIAN REFORM

Breakup agricultural lands to transform them into economic size farms to be owned by farmers themselves, to uplift
their economic status.

Founded on the right of landless farmers and landless regular farm workers to directly or collectively own the lands they
till or in case of farm workers, to receive a just share in fruits thereof.

Does not guarantee improvement in lives of the agrarian reform beneficiaries, but it merely provides for possibility of
favorable chance of uplifting economic status of the agrarian reform beneficiaries

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