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	GR No. 169970 2009-01-20	PROTACIO VICENTE v. DELIA SOLEDAD AVERA PUNO, C.J.
It was erroneous for respondents to assail the deed of sale executed on October 1, 1987 in favor of petitioners, because this constitutes a collateral attack on petitioners' TCT. Section 48 of P.D. No. 1529 prohibits a collateral attack on a Torrens title.[33] This Court has held that a petition which, in effect, questioned the validity of a deed of sale for registered land constitutes a collateral attack on a certificate of title.[34] In the case at bar, respondents' allegation, that the deed of sale executed on October 1, 1987 in favor of petitioners does not exist, clearly constitutes a collateral attack on a certificate of title. The allegation of the inexistence of the deed of sale in effect attacks the validity of the TCT issued in the petitioners' names.