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    The Supreme Court ruled that Doldol did not have the better right to possess the disputed land. While Doldol had occupied the land since 1959, it was alienable and disposable public land. Doldol failed to comply with requirements of the Public Land Act - he did not possess the land since time immemorial or for the period prescribed by law. Furthermore, in 1987 President Aquino issued a proclamation reserving the land, including the disputed portion, for Opol National School. Therefore, the school had the better right of possession, not Doldol.

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    The Supreme Court ruled that Doldol did not have the better right to possess the disputed land. While Doldol had occupied the land since 1959, it was alienable and disposable public land. Doldol failed to comply with requirements of the Public Land Act - he did not possess the land since time immemorial or for the period prescribed by law. Furthermore, in 1987 President Aquino issued a proclamation reserving the land, including the disputed portion, for Opol National School. Therefore, the school had the better right of possession, not Doldol.

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    The Supreme Court ruled that Doldol did not have the better right to possess the disputed land. While Doldol had occupied the land since 1959, it was alienable and disposable public land. Doldol failed to comply with requirements of the Public Land Act - he did not possess the land since time immemorial or for the period prescribed by law. Furthermore, in 1987 President Aquino issued a proclamation reserving the land, including the disputed portion, for Opol National School. Therefore, the school had the better right of possession, not Doldol.

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    The Supreme Court ruled that Doldol did not have the better right to possess the disputed land. While Doldol had occupied the land since 1959, it was alienable and disposable public land. Doldol failed to comply with requirements of the Public Land Act - he did not possess the land since time immemorial or for the period prescribed by law. Furthermore, in 1987 President Aquino issued a proclamation reserving the land, including the disputed portion, for Opol National School. Therefore, the school had the better right of possession, not Doldol.

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    REPUBLIC vs.

    DOLDOL
    295 SCRA 359, September 10, 1998
    G.R. No. 132963

    REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, (represented by Opol National Secondary Technical


    School), petitioner,
    NICANOR DOLDOL, respondent

    FACTS:
    Sometime in 1959, respondent Nicanor Doldol occupied a portion of land in Barrio
    Pontacan, Municipality of Opol, Misamis Oriental. On October 23, 1963, he filed an application
    for saltwork purposes for the said area with the Bureau of Forest Development. The Director of
    Forestry, however, rejected the same on April 1, 1968. Meanwhile, the Provincial Board of
    Misamis Oriental passed a resolution in 1965 reserving Lot 4932, Cad-237, Opol Cadastre as a
    school site. This reserved lot unfortunately included the area occupied by Doldol.
    In accordance with said resolution, the Opol High School transferred to the site in 1970.
    Seventeen years later, on November 2, 1987, then President Corazon Aquino issued
    Proclamation No. 180 reserving the area, including the portion in dispute, for the Opol High
    School, now renamed the Opol National Secondary Technical School (hereafter Opol National
    School). Needing the area occupied by Doldol for its intended projects, the school made several
    demands for him to vacate said portion, but he refused to move.

    In view of Doldol's refusal to vacate, Opol National School filed in 1991 a complaint
    for accion possessoria with the Regional Trial Court of Cagayan de Oro. The trial court ruled in
    the school's favor and ordered Doldol to vacate the land. On appeal, the Court of Appeals
    reversed the decision of the court a quo, ruling that Doldol was entitled to the portion he
    occupied, he having possessed the same for thirty-two years, from 1959 up to the time of the
    filing of the complaint in 1991.

    Sometime in 1970, the Opol High School filed a complaint for accion possessoria with
    the RTC, the court ruled on schools power.

    On appeal, the CA reversed the decision of the court ruling that Doldol was entitled to the
    portion he occupied, he having possessed the same for 32 years (1959-1991).

    ISSUE:
    Whether or not Doldol has the better right to possess the land in dispute?
    HELD:
    No. The Public Land Act requires that the applicant must prove (a) that the land is
    alienable public land and (b) that his open, continuous, exclusive and notorious possession and
    occupation of the same must either be since time immemorial or for the period prescribed in the
    Public Land Act. When the conditions set by law are complied with the possessor of the land, by
    operation of law, acquires a right to grant, a government grant, without the necessity of
    title/certificate of tile being issued.

    The evidence presented shows that the land in dispute is alienable and disposable in
    accordance with the District Foresters Certification. Doldol thus meets the first requirement.

    Consequently, Doldol could not have acquired an imperfect title to the disputed land
    since his occupation of the same started only in 1955, much later than June 12, 1945. Not having
    complied with the conditions set forth by law, Doldol cannot be said to have acquired a right to
    the land or a right to assert a right superior to the school given that then Pres. Aquino had
    reserved the lot for Opol National School.

    The privilege occupying public lands with a view of pre-empting confers no contractual
    or vested right in the land occupied and the authority of the President to withdraw such lands for
    sale or acquisition by the public, or to reserve them for public use, prior to divesting by the
    government of title thereof stands eventhough this may defeat the imperfect right of settler.
    Lands covered by reservation are not subject to entry, and no lawful settlement on them can be
    acquired (Solicitor General)

    In sum, Opol National Schoolhas the better right of possession over the land in dispute.

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