SUPREME COURT DECISIONS

Search for www.chanrobles.com

PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST ➔ SUPREME COURT DECISIONS

^{CONCURRING OPINION}

VITUG, J.:

The rule has been to the effect that a purchaser of registered land is not ordinarily required to explore further than what the record in the Registry indicates on its face in quest of any hidden defect or inchoate right which might adversely affect the buyers right over the property.¹ Undoubtedly, to allow in the instant case the cancellation of the titles of herein private respondents would defeat rather than enhance the purpose and scheme of the Torrens System. It is my understanding, however, that the rule that the Court has here announced would not apply to a situation where the enlargement or expansion in area would result in an encroachment on or reduction of any area covered by a certificate of title previously issued. To rule otherwise would itself be to downgrade the integrity of the Torrens System.

Endnotes:

---

¹ Pulido vs. CA, 251 SCRA 673.