Almeda v. CA
G.R. No. L-43800
July 29, 1977
Martin, J.
Held:
Property
ownership is impressed with social function. Property use must not only be for the
benefit of the owner but of society as well. The State, in the promotion of social
justice, may regulate the acquisition, ownership, use, enjoyment and disposition
of private property, and equitably diffuse property ownership and profits. One governmental
policy of recent date project emancipation of tenants from the bondage of the soil
and the transfer to them of the ownership of the land they till. This is Presidential
Decree No. 27 of October 21, 1972, ordaining that all tenant farmers of private
agricultural lands devoted to rice and corn under a system of sharecrop or lease
tenancy whether classified as landed estates or not shall be deemed owner of a portion
constituting a family-size farm of five (5) hectares if not irrigated and three
(3) hectares if irrigated.
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