LAND TITLES AND DEEDS – SBC LAW
By Alexvi Christie G. Tumulak
STEPS IN REGISTRATION PROCEEDINGS
P.D. 1529
13 Steps: SFS- TPS- PFH- PIEST
- Survey of the land by the LMB or a duly
licensed private surveyor
- Filing of the application by the applicant
- Setting of the initial date of hearing by the
court
- Transmittal of the application and other
related documents attached by the clerk of
court to the LRA
- Publication of the application and the date
and place of initial hearing in the Official
Gazette and in a newspaper of general
circulation
- Service by mailing of notice to all
occupants as well as contiguous owners
and those who may have an interest in the
land subject of the proceeding
- Posting by the sheriff of the notice in a
conspicuous place in the land and in a
conspicuous place in the bulletin board of
the municipal or city building where the
land is situated
- Filing of answer by persons having
interest in the land and includes those
whose names may not appear in the notice
- Hearing of the case by the court
- Promulgation of judgment
- Issuance of an order for the issuance of
the decree declaring the decision final and
instructing the LRA to issue an order for
the decree of confirmation or registration
- Entry of the decree of registration by the
LRA
- Sending of the decree of registration to the
RD
- Transcription of the decree of registration
in the registration book and the issuance of
the duplicate of owner’s certificate of title
by the RD upon payment of the prescribed
fees
CONVEYANCES AND TRANSFERS
PROCEDURE
ORDINARY CONVEYANCES ONLY A PORTION OF LAND CONVEYANCE
(Sec. 57)
1. The owner who desires to convey the land 1. PLAN of such land showing the portion or
covered by his title to another shall
EXECUTE: the proper deed of
conveyance, in proper form, and
present the same, together with owner’s
duplicate certificate, to the RD for entry
CADASTRAL PROCEEDINGS
8 Steps: CNN- FPF- HJ
1. When in the opinion of the President
public interest so requires that title to
unregistered lands be settled and
adjudicated, he may ORDER and DIRECT
the DIRECTOR OF LANDS to cause to be
made a CADASTRAL SURVEY of the
lands involved and the plans and technical
description thereof prepared in due form.
2. Director of Lands shall give NOTICE TO
PERSONS CLAIMING ANY INTEREST IN
THE LANDS AS WELL AS THE
GENERAL PUBLIC of the day on which
the survey will begin.
 Published once in the OG
 Copy of notice in English or the Natl
Language posted in a conspicuous
place on the B.B. of the M.B
 Copy of notice shall also be sent to the
Mayor as well as the Brgy Captain and
the Sangguniang Panlalawigan and the
Sangguniang Bayan concerned
3. NOTICE BY THE GEODETIC ENGRS OR
OTHER EMPLOYEES OF THE BUREAU
OF LANDS on the date of survey of such
lands is to begin
 Posted in the B.B. of the M.B or barrio
 Shall mark the boundaries by
monuments
4. FILING OF PETITION FOR
REGISTRATION
5. PUBLICATION
6. FILING OF ANSWER
7. HEARING OF THE PETITION
8. JUDGMENT
(Sec. 58)
portions into which it has been subdivided
and the corresponding technical
descriptions shall have been verified and
approved.

and registration.
2. RD shall ENTER in the registration book
the fact of conveyance and then prepare a
new certificate of title in the name of the
grantee, the owner’s duplicate of which
shall be delivered to him.
3. RD shall NOTE upon the ORIGINAL AND
DUPLICATE CERTIFICATE the:
 Date of conveyance
 Volume and page of the Reg Book in
which the new cert is registered; and
 Reference by # to the last preceding
certificate.
NOTE: The Orig. and Owner’s Duplicate of
the grantor’s certificate shall be stamped
“CANCELLED.” *filed with the notation of the #
and place of registration of the cert. of title of the
land conveyed.
LAND TITLES AND DEEDS – SBC LAW
By Alexvi Christie G. Tumulak
2. The deed of conveyance may in the
MEANTIME be annotated by way of
MEMORANDUM OF GRANTOR’S CERT
OF TITLE which shall serve as notice to
third persons of the fact of conveyance.
The effect of such memorandum is to show
and recognize the grantee’s title to the
portion thus conveyed pending actual
issuance to him of the corresponding TCT.
3. UPON APPROVAL OF THE PLAN AND
TECHNICAL DESCRIPTIONS of the
specific portions into which the land has
been subdivided, the same shall be FILED
w/ the RD for annotation on the
corresponding cert of title
4. RD SHALL ISSUE A NEW TCT to the
grantee for the portion conveyed to him
UPON CANCELLATION of the grantor’s
cert. as to said portion
5. BUT IF THE GRANTOR SO DESIRES, his
cert of title may be CANCELLED TOTALLY
and a NEW ONE issued to him for the
remaining portion of the land
6. PENDING APPROVAL OF THE PLAN, no
further registration or any annotation of any
deed or voluntary instrument affecting
unsegregated portion shall be made by the
RD, except where such portion was
purchased from the govt or any of its
instrumentalities.