Text of the provision
Art. 708. The Registry of Property has for its object the inscription or annotation of acts and contracts relating to the ownership and other rights over immovable property.
(605)
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 Registry of Property exists to record acts and contracts affecting ownership and other rights over land and buildings. Its function is to make those dealings a matter of public record.
The Registry works through two related but distinct acts: an inscription, which is the entry of the document itself, and an annotation, which is a note referring to a right or fact affecting a registered property without a full entry. Recording ownership and other real rights this way lets anyone dealing with land verify, from the public record, who holds title and what encumbrances or claims already burden it, before entering into a transaction over that property.
Questions about this provision
Related provisions
- Article 706 — Extrajudicial Abatement By Injured Party.
- Article 709 — Unregistered Titles Bind Only The Parties.
Cases citing this article
- Sps. Victor Valdez and Jocelyn Valdez etc. vs. Sps. Francisco & Caridad Tabisula, G.R. No. 175510, July 28, 2008 — read the decision on LawPhil →
Compiled automatically from Supreme Court decisions published on LawPhil that expressly cite this article, most frequently cited first. A listing means the decision cites the provision — it is not a statement that the case is the leading authority, and it does not show whether a ruling has since been modified or abandoned. Always read the decision itself.