LAND TITLES AND DEEDS SLC-LAW
COURSE OUTLINE
1. BASIC CONCEPTS AND GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF LAND TITLES
o Definition
o Difference of Title and Deeds
o Subject and Object of Registration
o Modes of Acquiring Ownership
o Regalian Doctrine
2. Torrens System
o General Law
3. Procedures in an Ordinary Land Registration Case
o Registrable and non registrable properties
o Survey and Application
o Publication
o Judgment and Issuance of Decree of Registration
4. Certificate of title
o Kinds
o Attributes and Limitations
o Purchaser in good faith
o Mirror Principle(?)
5. Remedies
o Before the Issuance of Title
o After one year-issuance of title
6. VOLUNTARY AND INVOLUNTARY DEALINGS WITH REGISTERED LANDS
o Citizenship Requirements
o Ministerial Duty of Register of Deeds
o Instances-Prevent/Question Registration
o Natures and Kinds of Attachment
o Registration of Lis Pendens
7. Mortgages, Leases and Trusts
o Kinds of Mortgages
o Essential Requisites of Mortgage
o Pactum Commissorium
8. Reconstitution of Title and Other Petitions/Actions after Original Registration
o Judicial and Administrative Reconstitution
o Nature and Purpose of Adverse Claims
LAND TITLES AND DEEDS SLC-LAW
o Amendments and Alteration of Certificate of Title
9. Registration of Public Lands and Land Patents
o Concept of Public Lands
o Classification of Public Lands
o Reclassification of Lands
o Example of Land Patents
o Cadastral
10. Land Registration Authority and the Register of Deeds
11. Preparation of Deeds and Conveyances
o Notarial Law