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Before this Court is a Petition1 for Review on Certiorari
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15 Id., at p. 81.
16 Id., at p. 82.
17 Id., at p. 83.
18 Id., at p. 84.
19 Id., at p. 85.
20 Id., at p. 86.
21 Id., at p. 87.
22 Id., at p. 88.
23 Id., at p. 89.
24 Id., at p. 121.
25 Id., at p. 90.
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26 Id., at p. 119.
27 Id., at pp. 91-118.
28 Id., at pp. 127-130.
29 Id., at pp. 137-141.
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31 Id., at p. 190.
32 Id., at pp. 332-337 and 347.
33 Entitled „An Act to Ordain the Agricultural Land Reform Code and
to Institute Land Reforms in the Philippines, Including the Abolition of
Tenancy and the Channeling of Capital into Industry, Provide for the
Necessary Implementing Agencies, Appropriate Funds therefor and for
Other Purposes,‰ which took effect on August 8, 1963.
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44 Tanenglian v. Lorenzo, G.R. No. 173415, March 28, 2008, 550 SCRA 348,
369; Dalwampo v. Quinocol Farm Workers and SettlersÊ Association, G.R. No.
160614, April 25, 2006, 488 SCRA 208, 221; and Benavidez v. Court of Appeals,
G.R. No. 125848, September 6, 1999, 313 SCRA 714, 719.
45 Ambayec v. Court of Appeals, G.R. No. 162780, June 21, 2005, 460 SCRA
537, 543.
46 Heirs of Jugalbot v. Court of Appeals, G.R. No. 170346, March 12, 2007,
518 SCRA 202, 213; and Valencia v. Court of Appeals, 449 Phil. 711, 737; 401
SCRA 666, 689 (2003).
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48 Masaquel v. Orial, G.R. No. 148044, October 19, 2007, 537 SCRA
51, 63 and Bautista v. Araneta, G.R. No. 135829, February 22, 2000, 326
SCRA 234, citing Lastimoza v. Blanco, 110 Phil. 835, 838; 1 SCRA 231,
234 (1961).
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52 Cornes v. Leal Realty Centrum Co., Inc., G.R. No. 172146, July 30, 2008,
560 SCRA 545, 569.
53 NICORP Management and Development Corporation v. Leonida de Leon,
G.R. No. 176942 and G.R. No. 177125, August 28, 2008, 563 SCRA 606.
(Citations omitted)
54 G.R. No. 128534, August 13, 2004, 436 SCRA 392, 398.
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posedly paid before 1988. In fact, they neither mentioned the terms
and conditions of their oral tenancy agreement, i.e. kind of
agricultural crops to be planted, if indeed it existed; nor did they
mention that such payments were made in the form of harvest
sharing equivalent to a certain percentage agreed upon by the
parties. While there were indeed payments made with the Land
Bank of the Philippines in varying amounts starting 1988 and
thereafter, it cannot be ignored that such payments were
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