Text of the provision
Art. 1637. The provisions of this Title are subject to the rules laid down by the Mortgage Law and the Land Registration Law with regard to immovable property.
(1537a)
Civil Code of the Philippines, Republic Act No. 386, approved June 18, 1949, effective August 30, 1950. Reproduced in full; verified verbatim against the LawPhil and ChanRobles official-text renderings.
What this article means
The closing article of the entire Sales title, immediately before Barter begins. It is a pointer provision: the rules in this Title (Sales) do not displace the separate body of law governing how immovable property is registered and encumbered — at the time of enactment, the (Spanish) Mortgage Law and the Land Registration Act (Act No. 496). Both have since been superseded by later legislation (Presidential Decree No. 1529, the Property Registration Decree, and the discontinuance of the old Spanish Mortgage Law registration system under Presidential Decree No. 892), but the pointer itself still functions exactly as written: a sale of registered land must still satisfy the Torrens registration formalities under the law now occupying that field, on top of whatever the Sales title requires.
Related provisions
- Article 1638 — Barter or Exchange Defined.
Cases interpreting this article
- Authorities on this article will be added here as each is verified against primary sources.