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Accretion Law in Republic vs. Santos Case by Nichole Lanuza is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The Supreme Court ruled that the property was not an accretion to the land owned by A. Under Article 457 of the Civil Code, accretion belongs to owners of land adjoining river banks, but only if the deposit of soil is gradual and imperceptible through water currents. Here, the land was previously part of the Parañaque River and became an orchard after drying up, so there was no gradual deposition. As dried river beds belong to the state under Article 502, the property remains public land and not eligible fo
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- Nichole Lanuza
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