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GEng 127: LAND REGESTRATION LAWS

Semester 1, AY 2020-2021

Submitted by

Junmar L. Claros

Submitted to

Jannet C Bencure, GE, PhD

Department of Geodetic Engineering
Visayas State University
 Module No. 1: Introduction of Philippine Land Registration

Lesson 1.2:

1. The land registration system currently used in the Philippines.

-Answer: torrens system
2. What type of original land registration process when registering
untitled land?
-Answer: Judicial Process
3. How are the land classified as per 1987 Philippine Constitution?
-Answer: the lands are clasiffied according to the use or purposes to
which such lands are destined.
4. Which class of lands that can be alienated and disposed?
-Answer: agricultural lands
5. What are the government agencies that are mandated to issue
certificate of titles to land claimants?
-Answer:: Land registration authority
6. What government agency that approves survey of lands declared as
agrarian reform areas?
-Answer: department of environment and natural resources (DENR)
7. What government agency that undertakes survey of lands declared as
agrarian reform areas?
-Answer: Department of agrarian reform (DAR)
8. Approval of survey of lands that belong to indigenous communities or
peoples is the responsibility of the DENR (Modified True or False).
-Answer: True

9. The DENR approves survey and issues original certificate of title

called CLOA (Modified True or False).
-Answer: True

10. The LRA issues the patents, CLOA’s, CADTs/CALTs, or Decree

issued by concerned government agencies (Modified True or False).
-Answer: False

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