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Case Digest: Lebrudo, et al. vs Loyola  GR No 181370                                                                   March 9, 2011 Facts: Loyola owns a 240-square meter parcel of alnd known as Lot No. 723-6, Block 1, Psd-73149 covered by TCT/CLOA No. 998. Lebrudo filed an action for the cancellation of the said TCT/CLOA and the issuance for the 1/2 portion of the lot in his name. In his complaint, he alleged that sometime in 1989, he was approached by Loyola to redeem the lot, which was mortgaged by Loyola's mother to Trinidad Barreto, and that he helped Lebrudo in obtaining title to the lot in her name by shouldering all the expenses for the transfer of the title of the lot from her mother. In exchange for this, Lebrudo promised to give Loyola the 1/2 portion of the lot and that Loyolla allegedly executed a ...

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Hacienda Luisita Incorporated vs Presidential Agrarian Reform Council, et al., Download full case digest (with efficient paper rule) Facts: The SC en banc voted 11-0 dismissing the petition filed by HLI Affirm with modifications the resolutions of the Presidential Agrarian Reform Council (PARC for brevity) revoking Hacienda Luisita Inc.  (HLI for brevity) Stock Distribution Plan (SDP) and placing the subject land in HL under compulsory coverage of the CARP of the government. Thereafter, the SC voting 6-5 averred that there are operative facts that occurred in the premises.  The SC thereat declared that the revocation of the SDP shall, by application of the operative fact principle, give the 5296 qualified Farmworkers Beneficiaries (FWBs for brevity) to choose whether they want to remain as HLI stockholders or choose actual land distribution. Considering the premises, DAR immediately scheduled a meeting regarding the effects of their choice and therefrom procee...

UP LEGAL ETHICS REVIEWER  I. THE LEGAL PROFESSION A. Supervision and Control • Regulated by the Supreme Court and NOT the PRC. • Const art. VIII, sec. 5(5). The SC shall have the following powers: (5) Promulgate rules concerning… practice and procedure in all courts, the admission into the practice of law, the Integrated Bar…. • Const art. XII, sec. 14. …The practice of all professions in the Phils. shall be limited to Filipino citizens, save in cases prescribed by law. • The power to integrate the Philippine bar is given to the SC by the Constitution. (In the Matter of the IBP (1973)) • RA 972, or the Bar Flunkers Act of 1953, was declared partially unconstitutional as it encroached upon the powers granted by the Constitution to the SC in determining the admission of bar examinees to the bar by usurping such power through a legislative act. (In Re: Cunanan (1954)) B. The Practice of Law • Practice of law means any activity, in or out of court, which re...

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Pathological Lying is a ground for psychological incapacity. A case for petition for declaration of nullity of marriage on the ground of psychological incapacity. ANTONIO vs  REYES                              Facts: Petitioner and respondent met in August 1989 when petitioner was 26 years old and respondent was 36 years of age. Barely a year after their first meeting, they got married before a minister of the Gospel at the Manila City Hall, and through a subsequent church wedding at the Sta. Rosa de Lima Parish, Bagong Ilog, Pasig, Metro Manila on 6 December 1990. Out of their union, a child was born on 19 April 1991, who sadly died five (5) months later.           On 8 March 1993, petitioner filed a petition to have his marriage to respondent declared null and void. He anchored his petiti...

Criminal Procedure Reviewer What is criminal procedure? Criminal procedure is the method prescribed by law for the apprehension and prosecution of persons accused of any criminal offense and for their punishment, in case of conviction. What is criminal procedure concerned with? Criminal procedure is concerned with the procedural steps through which the criminal case passes, commencing with the initial investigation of a crime and concluding with the unconditional release of the offender. It is a generic term used to describe the network of laws and rules which govern the procedural administration of criminal justice. What are the sources of criminal procedure? 1. Spanish Law of Criminal Procedure 2. General Order No. 58, dated April 23 1900 3. Amendatory acts passed by the Philippine Commission 4. The various quasi acts, the Philippine Bill of 1902, the Jones Law of 1916, the Tydings-McDuffie Law, and the Constitution of the Philippines 5. The R...