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Valdez vs. Catabas: Land Rights Dispute by Michael James Madrid Malingin is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This document summarizes a Supreme Court case regarding competing land claims over Lot No. 4967-C. Antero Catabas filed a free patent application in 1949 over the lot, which was still considered inalienable public land at that time. In the 1950s, portions of the lot were subdivided and sold to other parties. The Supreme Court ultimately ruled that although the lot was not alienable when Antero initially filed his application, his possession and occupation of the land since 1929 gave him a superior claim, ev
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- Michael James Madrid Malingin
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- EN