Land Administration And Institutions
1. Department of Agrarian Reform: surveys, compensation; registration of lands, and issuance of certificates of ownership
2. Housing and Urban Development
Coordinating Council: coordinates with the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board for the review of development plans, zoning, and settling land-use conflicts
Land Administration And Institutions
3. Land Management Bureau (under DENR): recommends policies/programs for the administration of alienable and disposable lands
4. Land Registration Authority: issues patents and certificates of title and registers land-transaction documents
Land Administration And Institutions
5. National Commission on Indigenous Peoples: securing title and approves any proposed disposal, utilization, management or appropriation of ancestral lands
• Onset of the Philippine Bill of 1902:
- Public land disposal
• Land Registration Act of 1902:
- Torrens system and Cadastral Act
for Land titles
• Public Land Act of 1903:
- Homestead system
• Rice Share Tenancy Act of 1933
• First Public Land Act (Act No. 926)
• Second Public Land Act ( Act No. 2874)
• Friar Land Act (Act No. 1120)
• Sugarcane Tenancy Contracts Act of 1933 or Act No. 4113
• Act. No. 141 (Amendment of 2874)
According to the history of DAR:
- Americans focused on land reform to calm revolt and social unrest among Filipinos who were mostly farmers and soil tillers that time
- Disposal of public lands:
1. Individual ownership: 16 ha
2. Corporate land holdings: 1, 024 ha
3. Americans can own agricultural lands
1902
- For land issuance, survey, and record-keeping
All public and private lands were
subjected for registration
1902
- evidence of the right of the owner
- maintain control and as a rule assert right to exclusive possession and enjoyment of the property
- Entitles ownership to enterprising
tenants to possess at least 16 ha to cultivate
- Not widely implemented
1903
-- Legalized 50-50 crop sharing arrangement only in provinces where the majority of the municipal councils shall,
by resolution, petition for its application
- Seventy-thirty Law
1933
1933
-- rules and regulations for selling and leasing portions of the public
domain, completing defective Spanish
land titles, and canceling and
confirming Spanish concessions
1933
1902
- administration and temporary leasing and sale of certain haciendas and
parcels of land, commonly known as friar lands
1902
Do you think the Filipinos became
better off?
AGRARIAN REFORM LAND REFORM
Rice Share Tenancy Act Friar Land Act
*Philippine Bill of 1902 First Public Land Act
Torrens and Cadastral
Homestead System
Commonwealth Act No. 178
Commonwealth Act No. 461
Commonwealth Act no. 441
Commonwealth Act No. 103
Commonwealth Act No. 32
Commonwealth Act No. 608
An act to promote the well-being of
tenants (aparceros) in agricultural lands devoted to the production of rice and to
regulate the relations between them and the landlords of said lands, and for other purposes.
1936
An Act Providing For The Subdivision And
Sale Of All The Portions Of The Friar Lands Estates Remaining Undisposed Of
1936
An act to regulate the relations between landowner and tenant and to provide for
compulsory arbitration of any controversy arising between them
1937
An act to afford protection of labor by creating a court of industrial relations
empowered to fix minimum wages for
laborers and maximum rentals to be paid by tenants
1936
and to enforce compulsory arbitration between employees or landlords, and employees or tenants, respectively; and by
prescribing penalties for the violation of its orders
1936 ,
in all cases where land is held under any system of tenancy, the tenant shall not be dispossessed of the land cultivated by him
... for any just cause, and without the approval of a representative of the Department of Justice,
http://www.lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1952/jan1952/gr_l-4206_1952.html
http://philippinelaw.info/statutes/ca461.html
http://www.lis.dar.gov.ph/documents/2739
http://www.lis.dar.gov.ph/documents/2752
http://www.dar.gov.ph/
http://www.lra.gov.ph/index.php?page=about_us_history