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Introduced by the Spanish, also known as the Ley Hipotecaria or law onmortgage
This is a land registration system, meaning it is not limited to registration ofmortgages but also
includes transfers and other dealings on lands.
This system was founded on titles issued during the Spanish regime that wereregistered under
the mortgage law.
The latest version of this law was implemented in the Philippines in 1894 as partof the
three provincias de ultramar" with a uniform mortgage law for themtheLey Hipotecaria de
Ultramar, also known as Ley Maura, after Don Antonio Mauray Montaner, then Ministro de Ultramar.
The system co-existed with the Torrens System of Land Registration Act No. 926(An Act to
Provide with the Adjudication and Registration of Lands in thePhilippines, 1902).
It was discontinued in 1977 (PD No. 892, Discontinuance of the SpanishMortgage System of
Land Registration and of the Use of Spanish Titles asEvidence in Land Registration
Proceedings)
C.American Period
1.Treaty of Paris of 1898 Between the U.S. and Spain
It excludes private lands or landsthat were already given by theSpanish Crown in favor to
privatepersons
Two types of land ownership -Lands of the public domain (alllands that belongs to the
SpanishCrown) and private lands.
2.P h i l i p p i n e B i l l o f 1 9 0 2 ( F i r s t Constitution)
Conrmation of Titles - imperfect titles from the Spanish and title by prescriptions(by operations
of law)