QuestionsQuestions (Act No. 3672)
To authorize, under certain conditions, the filing (via reopening) in the proper court of certain claims of title to parcels of land that have been declared public land, within a period of one year from the date the Act’s effectivity takes hold.
The parcels must have been the object of cadastral proceedings and have been, or are about to be, declared land of the public domain due to failure to file the claim during the legal time limit.
The claimant was unable, for any reason, to file a claim in the proper court within the time limit established by law, and the land has been or will be declared public land as a consequence.
It grants the right to petition for reopening of the judicial proceedings under the provisions of Act No. 2259, as amended.
They must have been instituted within the ten years next preceding the approval of Act No. 3672.
The petition must be filed within one year after the Act takes effect (i.e., after the date of effectivity announced by proclamation).
Only parcels that have not been alienated, reserved, leased, granted, or otherwise provisionally or permanently disposed of by the Government may be included.
The competent Court of First Instance.
It must notify the Government through the Attorney-General.
That all conditions established in Act No. 3672 have been complied with.
The judicial proceedings are ordered reopened “as if no action has been taken” on such parcels.
It implies the prior action affecting the parcels would be treated as if it never occurred, allowing the claimant’s case to be heard anew under the reopened proceedings.
The parcels were object of cadastral proceedings; because the claimant failed to file a claim within the legal time limit, the land has been or is about to be declared public land.
On the date when the Taking Governor-General, via proclamation, announces that the Act has been expressly or tacitly approved by the President of the United States, consistent with the 1916 U.S. Congressional act mentioned.
The one-year filing period and the ability to invoke the Act’s remedy begin only from the Act’s declared effectivity date in the proclamation.
It refers to lands included in cadastral surveys and proceedings under the cadastral system, where claims against land sought to be registered or declared public could be filed within prescribed periods.
It only applies if the parcels have not been alienated, reserved, leased, granted, or otherwise disposed of (provisionally or permanently) by the Government.
It does not replace Act No. 2259; instead, it grants a specific right to petition for reopening under Act No. 2259’s provisions, but only under the conditions and limits stated in Act No. 3672.