CHAPTER 2 a third person, except in virtue of another title also

PRESCRIPTION OF OWNERSHIP AND OTHER recorded; and the time shall begin to run from the
REAL RIGHTS recording of the latter.

Art. 1117. Acquisitive prescription of dominion
and other real rights may be ordinary or
extraordinary.
Ordinary acquisitive prescription requires
possession of things in good faith and with just
title for the time fixed by law. (1940a)
Art. 1118. Possession has to be in the concept of
an owner, public, peaceful and uninterrupted.
(1941)
Art. 1119. Acts of possessory character executed
in virtue of license or by mere tolerance of the
owner shall not be available for the purposes of
possession. (1942)
As to lands registered under the Land
Registration Act, the provisions of that special law
shall govern. (1949a)
Art. 1127. The good faith of the possessor
consists in the reasonable belief that the person
from whom he received the thing was the owner
thereof, and could transmit his ownership.
(1950a)
Art. 1128. The conditions of good faith required
for possession in Articles 526, 527, 528, and 529
of this Code are likewise necessary for the
determination of good faith in the prescription of
ownership and other real rights. (1951)

Art. 1120. Possession is interrupted for the
purposes of prescription, naturally or civilly.
(1943)
Art. 1121. Possession is naturally interrupted
when through any cause it should cease for more
than one year.
The old possession is not revived if a new
possession should be exercised by the same
adverse claimant. (1944a)
Art. 1122. If the natural interruption is for only one
year or less, the time elapsed shall be counted in
favor of the prescription. (n)
Art. 1129. For the purposes of prescription, there
is just title when the adverse claimant came into
possession of the property through one of the
modes recognized by law for the acquisition of
ownership or other real rights, but the grantor was
not the owner or could not transmit any right. (n)
Art. 1130. The title for prescription must be true
and valid. (1953)
Art. 1131. For the purposes of prescription, just
title must be proved; it is never presumed.
(1954a)

Art. 1123. Civil interruption is produced by judicial

summons to the possessor. (1945a)

Art. 1124. Judicial summons shall be deemed not

to have been issued and shall not give rise to
interruption:

(1) If it should be void for lack of legal solemnities;

(2) If the plaintiff should desist from the complaint

or should allow the proceedings to lapse;

(3) If the possessor should be absolved from the

complaint.

In all these cases, the period of the interruption

shall be counted for the prescription. (1946a)

Art. 1125. Any express or tacit recognition which

the possessor may make of the owner's right also
interrupts possession. (1948)
Art. 1126. Against a title recorded in the Registry
of Property, ordinary prescription of ownership or
real rights shall not take place to the prejudice of