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Sigre vs. Court of Appeals
Sigre vs. Court of Appeals
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51 Zamudio v. Peñas, 286 SCRA 367, 375 [1998], citing Nicolas v. Judge
Yuzon, A.M. No. RTJ-89-303, 15 August 1990.
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AUSTRIA-MARTINEZ, J.:
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6 null and void. The LBP was directed to return to private
respondent the lease rentals paid by Sigre, while Sigre was5
directed to pay the rentals directly to private respondent.
In declaring Memorandum Circular No. 6 as null and void,
the appellate court ruled that there is nothing in P.D. 276
which sanctions the contested provision of the circular;
that said circular is in conflict with P.D. 816 which provides
that payments of lease rentals shall be made to the
landowner, and the7
latter, being a statute, must prevail
over the circular; that P.D. 27 is unconstitutional in laying
down the formula for determining the cost of the land as it
sets limitations on8 the judicial prerogative of determining
just compensation; and that it is no longer9
applicable, with
the enactment of Republic Act No. 6657.
Hence, this present recourse, which is a consolidation of
the separate petitions for review filed by Rolando Sigre
(who substituted his predecessor Ernesto Sigre), docketed
as G.R. No. 109568 and the LBP, docketed as G.R. No.
113454.
Petitioner Sigre, in G.R. No. 109568, alleges that:
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4Ibid., p. 80.
5Ibid., p. 92.
6Ibid., pp. 86-87.
7Ibid., p. 88.
8Ibid., pp. 89-90.
9Ibid., p. 92.
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„IV
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„C
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goal of P.D. 27, i.e., freedom from the bondage of the soil by
transferring to the tenant-farmers the ownership of the
land theyÊre tilling. As noted, however, in the whereas
clauses of the Circular, problems have been encountered in
the expeditious implementation of the land reform
program, thus necessitating its promulgation, viz.:
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15 55 SCRA 26 [1974].
16 Rollo, CA-G.R. SP No. 28906, pp. 87-88.
17 Grego vs. Commission on Elections, 274 SCRA 481, 498 [1997].
18 Vinzons-Magana vs. Estrella, 201 SCRA 536, 540 [1991].
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Circular that it was issued in implementation of P.D. 27.
Both Memorandum Circular No. 6 and P.D. 816 were
issued pursuant to and in implementation of P.D. 27. These
must not be read in isolation, but rather, in conjunction
with each other. Under P.D. 816, rental payments shall be
made to the landowner. After the value of the land has
been determined/established, then the tenant-farmers shall
pay their amortizations
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to the LBP, as provided in DAR
Circular No. 6. Clearly, there is no inconsistency between
them. Au contraire, P.D. 816 and DAR Circular No. 6
supplement each other insofar as it sets the guidelines for
the payments of lease rentals on the agricultural property.
Further, that P.D. 27 does not suffer any constitutional
infirmity is a judicial fact that has been repeatedly
emphasized by this Court in a number of cases. As24early as
1974, in the aforecited case of De Chavez v. Zobel, P.D. 27
was assumed to be constitutional, and upheld as part and
parcel of the law of the land, viz.:
„There is no doubt then, as set forth expressly therein, that the goal
is emancipation. What is more, the decree is now part and parcel of
the law of the land according to the revised Constitution itself.
Ejectment therefore of petitioners is simply out of the question.
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Thereafter, in Gonzales v. Estrella, which incidentally
involves private respondent and counsel in the case at
bench, the Court emphatically declared that „Presidential 27
Decree No. 27 has survived the test of constitutionality.‰
Then, in 1982, P.D. 27, once again, was stamped with
judicial imprimatur in Association of Rice & Corn
Producers of the28 Philippines, Inc. v. The National Land
Reform Council, to wit:
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