Facts: A small parcel of land (Lot No. 3786), an alienable or disposable public land.

Covered by Sales
Patent No. 257 was issued to Margarita Juanson. The same land was also issued by Lease No. 49
executed by the Bureau of Lands in favor of Andres de Vera. Juanson’s Sales Patent was inscribed by the
Register of Deeds on July 11, 1927, and the Original Certificate of Title was issued to her. In 1950,
Simeon Dagdag bought it from the owner and the corresponding certificate of title was given out. On
the other hand, the lease to de Vera was transferred to Nepomuceno. Dagdag’s title and those of his
predecessors contained no annotation of such lease , neither he had any knowledge of it. Nepomuceno
refused to surrender the land even in the face of Dagdag’s patent and title.

Issue: Who is entitled to the land and the products thereof?

Ruling: The patents when registered in the corresponding Register of Deeds are indispensible. We
regard these as veritable Torrens Title subject to no encumbrance except those stated therein, plus
those specified by the statutes, and lease is not one of them. In addition, when the lease was renewed
in 1949, the portion in question was no longer public land subject to the disposition of the Director of
Lands because it had already been granted to Margarita Juanson and had become private property. In
Sec 122 of the Land Registration Law, the documents mentioned wherein lands are “alienated, granted,
or conveyed” are documents transferring ownership, not documents of lease transferring ownership.
The Torrens Title of Dagdag must prevail.