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1. Clear and unequivocal act of repudiation of the co-ownership PRESUMPTIONS REGARDING POSSESSION
2. Act of repudiation must be made known
1. Good Faith
3. Clear and convincing evidence
2. Continuity of the character of good faith
4. Open, continuous, exclusive, notorious, adverse, public possession in the concept
3. Non-interruption of possession
of an owner
4. Presumption of just title
EFFECTS OF PARTITION 5. Non-interruption of possession of property unjustly lost but legally recovered
6. Possession during intervening period
1. Mutual accounting of benefits 7. Possession of movables with real property
2. Mutual reimbursement for expenses 8. Exclusive possession of common property
Possession in the concept of holder: REQUISITES BEFORE USUFRUCTUARY IS ALLOWED TO MAKE REPAIRS
1. True and Valid Title there was a mode of transferring ownership and the grantor 1. By the death of the usufructuary, unless a contrary intention clearly appears;
was the owner 2. By the expiration of the period for which it was constituted, or by the fulfillm
a. Req: of any resolutory condition provided in the title creating the usufruct;
i. Must be in possession 3. By merger of the usufruct and ownership in the same person;
ii. Possession must be in the concept if owner 4. By renunciation of the usufructuary;
2. Colorable Title although there was a mode of transferring ownership, something 5. By the total loss of the thing in usufruct;
is wrong because the grantor is not the owner 6. By the termination of the right of the person constituting the usufruct;
Titulo Colorado is what is meant by just title in the law of prescription 7. By prescription. (513a)
Ordinary prescription needs good faith and just title
Extraordinary prescription does not need either good faith or just title
In case of real properties, prescription is 10 and 30 years respectively DEATH OF THE USUFRUCTUARY ENDS THE USUFRUCT. EXCEPTIONS:
3. Putative Title although a person believes himself to be the owner, he
1. In the case of multiple usufructs
nonetheless is not, because there was no mode of acquiring ownership
2. In case there is period fixed based on the number of years that would ela
before a person would reach a certain age 3. In case the contrary intention clea
CHARACTERISTICS OR ELEMENTS OF USUFRUCT
appears
1. Essential characteristics
CHARACTERISTICS OF EASEMENT:
a. It is a real right
b. It is of temporary nature or duration 1. Real Right
c. Its purpose is to enjoy the benefits and derive the advantages from the 2. Imposable only on anothers property
object as a consequence of normal use or exploitation 3. Jus in re aliena (a real right may be alienated thought the naked ownership
2. Natural characteristicsobligation of conserving and preserving the form and maintained)
substance of the thing 4. It is a limitation or encumbrance on the servient estate for anothers benefit
3. Accidental characteristicsthose which may be present or absent depending upon 5. There is inheritance or inseparability
the stipulation of the parties 6. Indivisible
7. Intransmissible
USUFRUCTUARY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ORDINARY REPAIRS WHEN: 8. Perpetual
1. When they are required by NORMAL or NATURAL use
2. They are needed for preservation REQUISITES OF PRESCRIPTION (Easement)
3. Occurred during the usufruct
4. Must have happened with or without the usufructuary 1. Possession in the concept of owner
2. Public
3. Peaceful 3. annulment, rescission, or cancellation of the title
4. Uninterrupted 4. abandonment of the servient estate
5. resolution of the right of the grantor to create the easement
DIFFERENT LEGAL EASEMENTS 6. registration of the servient estate as FREE, easement was not registered
7. in legal easement of right of way, opening of adequate outlet to the highway
1. Easements relating to waters 2. Right of way
2. Light and view THREE KINDS OF ANIMALS
3. Party wall
4. Drainage of building 1. Wild animalswhich live naturally independent of man
5. Intermediate distances 2. Domesticatedwild by nature but recognizes the authority of man
6. Easement against nuisance 3. Domesticborn and reared ordinarily under the control of and
7. Lateral and subjacent support 4. care of man
1. merger in the same person of the ownership of the dominant and servient estates GROUNDS FOR REVOCATION:
2. non-user for ten years
3. when either or both of the estates fall into the condition that the easement cannot 1. Fulfillment of resolutory condition
be used (bad condition of the tenement or impossibility of use merely suspends 2. Ingratitude
since possibility of use revives the easement) 3. Birth, Adoption, Reappearance
4. expiration of the term or fulfillment of the condition
5. renunciation GROUNDS FOR REDUCTION:
6. redemption
1. Birth, Adoption, Reappearance
Other causes of extinguishment 2. Inofficiousness
3. If insufficient property is left for the support of the donor and his relatives.
1. expropriation
2. permanent impossibility of use