REQUISITES FOR FILING OF APPLICATION
1. That the property in question is alienable and disposable land of the public domain
2. That the applicants, by themselves or through their predecessorsin-interest have been in open, continuous, exclusive, and notorious possession and occupation
3. That such possession is under bona fide claim of ownership since June 12, 1945 or earlier
WHO MAY APPLY
Section 14 of PD1529 enumerates the persons who may apply for registration, whether personally or through their duly authorized representatives, to wit:
1. Those who by themselves or through their predecessors-ininterest have been in open, continuous, exclusive, and notorious possession and occupation of alienable and disposable lands of the public domain under a bona fide claim of ownership since June 12, 1945 or earlier;
2. Those who have acquired ownership of private lands by prescription under the provision of existing laws.
3. Those who have acquired ownership of private lands or abandoned river beds by right of accession or accretion under the existing laws.
4. Those who have acquired ownership of land in any other manner provided for by law.
> Where the land is owned in common, all the co-owners shall file the application jointly.
> Where the land has been sold under pacto de retro, the vendor a retro may file an application for the original registration of the land, provided, however, that should the period for redemption expire during the pendency of the registration proceedings and ownership to the property consolidated in the vendee a retro, the latter shall be substituted for the applicant and may continue the proceedings.
> A trustee on behalf of his principal may apply for original registration of any land held in trust by him, unless prohibited by the instrument creating the trust.
CO-OWNERS SHALL FILE APPLICATION JOINTLY
> Since a co-owner cannot be considered a true owner of a specific portion until division or partition is effected, he cannot file an application for registration of the whole without joining the co-owners as applicants
VENDEE A RETRO MAY FILE AN APPLICATION IN HIS NAME
> A sale pacto de recto transfers the legal title to the vendee and the vendee is subrogated to all the rights and actions of the vendor, subject to the latter’s right to redemption
> Vendee a retro has therefore a registrable title thereo which may be the subject of initial registration
> The right to redeem the property is only to be noted in the decree and certificate of title that may be issued
CORPORATION SOLE MAY PURCHASE AND HOLD REAL ESTATE
> Corporation sole—organized and composed of a single individual, the head of any religious society or church, for the administration of the temporalities of such religious society or church
> A corporation sole is vested with the right to purchase and hold real estate and personal property
> Corporation sole is not the owner of the properties he may acquire but merely the administrator thereof and holds the same in trust for the faithful or members of the society or church for which the corporation is organized
