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2008-12-18 |
TINGA, J. |
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| Time and again, this Court has ruled that reconstitution, even judicial reconstitution, does not confirm or adjudicate ownership over a property.[105] Reconstitution merely restores a missing certificate of title in the same condition that it was when lost or destroyed, nothing more. If the original title had a legal defect at the time of the loss or destruction, as when the land covered is part of the public forest,[106] the reconstituted title does not cure such defect. As this Court held in Director of Lands v. Gan Tan:[107] | |||||