Tiglao v. Insular Government of the Philippine Islands
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO AND APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. The facts are stated in the opinion. The concession of 1873 made by the Municipal Board of Mabalacat did transmit to plaintiff in error’s grantor certain' rights. Book 4, Title 12, Law 1 of the compilation of Spanish Colonial Laws printed in 1828 in House Doc.
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ERROR TO AND APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. The facts are stated in the opinion. The concession of 1873 made by the Municipal Board of Mabalacat did transmit to plaintiff in error’s grantor certain' rights. Book 4, Title 12, Law 1 of the compilation of Spanish Colonial Laws printed in 1828 in House Doc. No. 121, 20th Cong., 2d Sess., p. 38; .see also-3 Philippines, 54’0; Law 8, Book 4, Title 12, Laws of the Indies permitting applications for. land grants in townships where there is a court. As to occupation ripening into title, see Solicitor General’s brief in Cariño…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes
This case comes by writ of error and appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands, affirming a judgment of the Court of Land Registration, which denied registration of a tract of land. It is admitted that the facts as found by the two courts may be assumed to be true, Reavis v. Fianza, ante, p. 16; but apart' from the concurrence of the -courts below the proper proceeding in a case of this kind is by writ of error, and. therefore the appeal is dismissed. Cariño v. Insular Government, 212 U. S. 449. So-much being established, the grounds on which the plaintiff in error…
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