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Factual Antecedents
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the
writ
and
the
respondents
motion
for
reconsideration.17 The CA granted the petition and held
that with the repeal of the AntiSquatting Law, the
respondents
criminal
and
civil
liabilities
were
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extinguished.
The dispositive portion of the decision
reads:
WHEREFORE, premises considered, the petition for certiorari
with prayer for injunction is GRANTED. The orders dated June
5, 2003 and July 24, 2003 of Branch 131 of the Regional Trial
Court of Caloocan City in Criminal Case No. C45610 are
REVERSED and SET ASIDE. Said court is hereby permanently
ENJOINED from further executing or implementing its decision
dated March 18, 1996.
SO ORDERED.
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The Orders dated October 24, 2008 and February 23, 2009 are
hereby declared NULL and VOID.
The Public Respondent is hereby directed to DISMISS Civil
Case No. 0829245 for lack of jurisdiction.
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The Petition
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Issues
Our Ruling
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35 Id.
36 Id.
37 Entitled An Act Reorganizing the Judiciary, Appropriating Funds
Therefor, and for Other Purposes approved on August 14, 1981.
38 Abrin v. Campos, G.R. No. 52740, November 12, 1991, 203 SCRA
420, 424.
39 An Act Expanding the Jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Trial
Courts, Municipal Trial Courts, and Municipal Circuit Trial Courts,
Amending for the Purpose Batas Pambansa Blg.
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129, Otherwise Known as the Judiciary Reorganization Act of 1980.
Approved March 25, 1994.
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(4) By the possession of another, subject to the provisions of
Article 537, if the new possession has lasted longer than one
year. But the real right of possession is not lost till after the
lapse of ten years. (Emphasis supplied)
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possession thereof. The right to possess and
occupy the
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that their civil liability arising from the crime had also
been erased.
The respondents reliance on the principle of res judicata
is misplaced.
Res judicata embraces two concepts: (1) bar by prior
judgment as enunciated in Rule 39, Section 47(b) of the
Rules of Civil Procedure and (2) conclusiveness of judgment
in Rule 39, Section 47(c).62
Bar by prior judgment means that when a right or fact
had already been judicially tried on the merits and
determined by a court of competent jurisdiction, the final
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