Article 712

RA 386 · Civil Code of the Philippines

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Ownership is acquired by: occupation, intellectual creation, law, donation, contracts (tradition), succession, and prescription. These are the only valid ways to become an owner.

Official text — RA 386

Ownership is acquired by occupation and by intellectual creation.

Ownership and other real rights over property are acquired and transmitted by law, by donation, by testate and intestate succession, and in consequence of certain contracts, by tradition.

They may also be acquired by means of prescription. (609a)

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Source: lawphil.net (RA 386 as amended)

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