Short answer. Yes. Article 395 of the Civil Code requires that when property accrues to co-heirs because a relative is an absentee, the Registry record must state that the property is subject to the absentee's, or the absentee's representatives' or successors', right to later claim it. That notation keeps the absentee's inheritance rights alive until they lapse by prescription.
What the law says
In the record that is made in the Registry of the real estate which accrues to the coheirs, the circumstance of its being subject to the provisions of this article shall be stated.
Civil Code, Article 395 — Petition for Inheritance Preserved. Read the full provision →
What the law says
The provisions of the preceding article are understood to be without prejudice to the action of petition for inheritance or other rights which are vested in the absentee, his representatives or successors in interest.
Civil Code, Article 395 — Petition for Inheritance Preserved. Read the full provision →
What the Registry entry has to say
Article 395 does not let the property pass to co-heirs as a clean, unconditional transfer. In the record that is made in the Registry of the real estate which accrues to the coheirs, the circumstance of its being subject to the provisions of this article shall be stated. The registrar's entry itself must flag that this particular parcel came to the co-heirs because a relative is an absentee, and that the transfer carries the qualification the rest of Article 395 describes. Anyone checking the title afterward is meant to see that condition on the face of the record, not discover it later.
The right that notation protects
The point of stating it is that the co-heirs' title is not the end of the absentee's claim. The provisions of the preceding article are understood to be without prejudice to the action of petition for inheritance or other rights which are vested in the absentee, his representatives or successors in interest. If the absentee turns up, or is confirmed to have survived, that person — or their own representatives or successors if they have since died — can still pursue a petition for inheritance or whatever other right they had in the property, notwithstanding that co-heirs already took it over.
That right does not last indefinitely
Article 395 does not leave the co-heirs' position uncertain forever. These rights shall not be extinguished save by lapse of time fixed for prescription. The absentee's, or their representatives' or successors', ability to reclaim the property is cut off once the prescriptive period that applies to that kind of action has run. Until then, the claim survives the transfer to the co-heirs; once it lapses, it does not. This is general information, not a computation of when any particular period expires.
Why this matters if you deal with the property
For the co-heirs, a title carrying the Article 395 notation is real ownership, but it is ownership that can still be defeated by a successful claim from the absentee side while the prescriptive period runs. Anyone buying the land, lending against it, or otherwise transacting on it should treat that annotation as a live qualification on the title, not paperwork left over from the original proceeding, and account for it before assuming the co-heirs' rights are beyond challenge.