Preliminary Title
Article 10Conditions of ownership.
ELI5— what this means for you
A tenant-farmer cannot get an actual land title until they become a full member of a recognized farmers' cooperative. The land cannot be sold or transferred — only inherited or returned to the government.
Key point
Official text — PD 442
Conditions of ownership.
No title to the land acquired by the tenant-farmer under Presidential Decree No. 27 shall be actually issued to him unless and until he has become a full-fledged member of a duly recognized farmers cooperative.
Title to the land acquired pursuant to Presidential Decree No. 27 or the Land Reform Program of the Government shall not be transferable except by hereditary succession or to the Government in accordance with the provisions of Presidential Decree No. 27, the Code of Agrarian Reforms and other existing laws and regulations.
Source: lawphil.net (PD 442 as amended)
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