LAND TITLES AND

DEEDS

Atty. Norlito A. Eneran

 COURSE SYLLABUS
I. Torrens System
II. Regalian Doctrine
III. Citizenship Requirement
IV. Original Registration
V. Non-registrable Properties
VI. Dealings with Unregistered Lands
 Dealings with Unregistered Lands

1. History of land laws

2. Remedies sufficiently covered under Remedial
Law
3. Registration of judgments, orders and partitions
4. Assurance fund
5. Registration of Patents
6. Administrative Structure of the Register of
Deeds
7. Consultas
 KINDS OF LAND
PUBLIC LAND (Lands of PRIVATE LAND
the Public Domain)
1. Titled property
1. Timber/Forest (Torrens System)
2. Mineral
2. IP Lands
3. National Parks
4. Agricultural (A&D)
-Residential Patent
-Agricultural
Admin Titling
Judicial Titling Decree
-Commercial CLOA
-Industrial
 Disposition of Alienable and Disposable Public Lands

Homestead
Land
Classification Free Patents/
RFP
Geodetic
Controls Misc. Sales Original Certificate Transfer Certificate
of Titles of Titles
Cadastral
Special Patents
Parcellary
Surveys CLOAs/EPs

Judicial Decrees

CADT/CALT
Survey and Mapping
Titling Original Registration Subsequent
Registration
DENR
DENR/DAR/NCIP
COURT/LRA Registry of Deeds
Registry of Deeds
 Laws Governing Land Administration
and Management in the Philippines

1. Act 1120 – Friar Lands Act of 1903

2. Act 2259 – Cadastral Act of 1903
3. CA 141 - Public Land Act of 1936
4. PD 1529 – Property Registration Decree of 1978
5. 1987 Constitution
6. RA 6657 – Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law of 1987
7. RA 7160 – Local Government Code of 1991
8. RA 8371 – Indigenous People’s Rights Act of 1997
9. RA 10023 - Residential Free Patent of 2010