COURSE OUTLINE

Part One Overview of the Course on

Part Three Land Acquisition

1.

Agrarian Law
1.

General Concepts of Agrarian

Sec. 3(a), RA 6657

2.

Reform
2.

Historical and Legal Backdrop

Agrarian Reform Defined

Scope of the Program Sec.
4, RA 6657

3.

Priorities of Coverage Sec.

7, RA 6657

Part Two Legislative Backdrop

1.

4.

RA 3844, as amended by RA
6389 Code of Agrarian Reforms of

Acquisition Sec. 16, RA 6657

5.

the Philippines
2.

Cases:
1.

Bondage of the Soil

3.

Agrarian Reform, GR. No. 79310 ,

129 Reorganizing and Strengthening

4.

July 14, 1989

2.

EO 228 Declaring Full Land

Ownership to Qualified Beneficiaries

3.

Corporate Landowners: Stock

Distribution Option Sec. 31, RA

Proc. 131 Instituting a

Comprehensive Agrarian Reform

Roxas v. CA, GR No. 127876,

Dec. 17, 1999

under PD 27
5.

Association of Small
Landowners in the Phils. v. Sec. of

EO 129-A Modifying EO
DAR

Land Acquisition: Voluntary

Offer to Sell Sec. 19, RA 6657

PD 27 Decree
Emancipating Tenants from the

Land Acquisition: Compulsory

6657
4.

Program

Award of Lands to Children of

Landowners Sec. 6, RA 6657

RA 6657 Comprehensive

Issuance: DAR AO 2, S. 2009 Rules

Agrarian Reform Program enacted

and Regulations on the Acquisition and

on June 10, 1988

Distribution of Agricultural Lands under

6.

7.

Sec. 2 of RA 6657, as

RA 6657, as amended by RA 9700

amended by RA 9700 Declaration

Part Four Retention, Exemption and

of Principles and Policies

8.

Exclusions

RA 7881 Amending the

CARP

9.

1.
RA 9700 Strengthening the

CARP

Retention Rights Sec. 6, RA

6657

Case: Alita vs. CA, G.R. No. 78517,

Issuance: DAR AO 3, S. 1995 Rules

February 27, 1989

and Regulations on the Exemption of

Issuance: DAR AO 2, S. 2003 2003

Fishponds from the Coverage of CARL

Rules of Procedure on Landowners

pursuant to RA 7881

Retention Rights

Cases:

2.

Exemptions and Exclusions

1.

Sec. 10, RA 6657

3.

v. DARAB, G.R. No.

Sec. 3(c) of RA 6657, in

relation to DOJ Opinion No. 44 s.

100091. October 22, 1992

2.

1990 and the case of Natalia Realty

v. DAR, GR No. 103302, August 12,

DAR v. DECS, G.R. No.

158228. March 23, 2004

3.

1993

Province of Camarines Sur v.

CA, G.R. No. 103125 May 17, 1993

Issuances:
1.

Central Mindanao University

4.

DAR AO 13, S. 1990 Rules

Roxas & Company, Inc. v.

DAMBA-NFSW, G.R. No. 149548.

and Procedures Governing

December 4, 2009

Exemptions of Lands under Sec. 10

Part Five Land Valuation

of RA 6657
2.

DAR AO 4, S. 2003 2003

1.

Land Valuation under

Rules on Exemption of Lands under

Operation Land Transfer pursuant to

Sec. 3c, RA 6657 and DOJ Opinion

PD 27

44 s. 1990

2.

Cases:
1.

Formula under para. 4 of PD 27 and

Milestone Farms, Inc., v.

Office of the President, G.R. No.

Sec. 2 of EO 228
3.

182332. February 23, 2011

2.

Luz Farms v. Sec. of Agrarian

3.

DAR v. Sutton, G.R. No.

162070. October 19, 2005

4.

RA 7881 (1995) Exempting

Prawn Farms and Fishponds from
CARP

Determination of Just
Compensation Sec. 17, RA 6657

4.

Reform, GR No. 86889, December

4, 1990

PD 27 and EO 228: Valuation

Valuation and Mode of

Compensation Sec. 18, RA 6657

5.

Procedure for Acquisition of

Private Lands in Case of
Landowners Rejection or Failure to
Reply Sec. 16 (d) of RA 6657

6.

Part Seven- Land Tenure

Land Valuation and

Improvement

Landowner Compensation, Sec. IVD of DAR AO 2, S. 2009

1.

Cases:
1.

Just Compensation as

Rentals Sec. 12, RA 6657

2.
1.

Secretary of Agrarian Reform, GR.

No. 78742, July 14, 1989
2.

2.
3.

Issuance: AO 2, S. 2006 Revised

CA, GR No. 118712, Oct. 6, 1995

Rules and Procedures Governing

Lubrica v. Land Bank of the

Leasehold Implementation in Tenanted

Phils., G.R. No. 170220. November

20, 2006

Agricultural Lands
3.

Issuance: Preliminary Determination of

Just Compensation per Rule XIX of the

Production-Sharing Sec 32,

RA 6657

4.

Agribusiness Venture

2009 DARAB Rules of Procedure

Arrangements (AVAs) in Agrarian

Part Six Land Redistribution

Reform Areas per DAR AO 09-06

1.

Part Eight Conversion of

Land Redistribution per Secs.

Agricultural Lands

22 to 27 of RA 6657, as amended
2.

Principle of affordability to the

1.

farmers
Case: Land Bank of the Phils. v.

3.

Gelos v. CA, G.R. No.

86186. May 8, 1992

Land Bank of the Phils. vs.

4.

Gabriel v. Pangilinan, G.R.

No. L-27797. August 26, 1974

2005
3.

Caballes v. DAR, GR No.

78214, December 5, 1988

Land Bank of the Phils. v.

Natividad, G.R. No. 127198. May 16,

Leasehold Relationship
Cases:

discussed in Association of Small

Landowners in the Philippines v.

Determination of Lease

Conversion of Lands Sec

65, RA 6657

2.

Conversion of Agricultural

Palmares, G.R. No. 192890, June 17,

Lands: Difference among

2013

Exemption, Conversion and

Indefeasibility of Titles

Reclassification

Case: Estribillo v. DAR, G.R. No.

159674. June 30, 2006

Cases:
1.

CREBA v. Secretary of
Agrarian Reform, G.R. No. 183409.
June 18, 2010

2.

Ros v. DAR, G.R. No.

4.

132477. August 31, 2005

3.

Reform EO 129-A dated July 26,

Land Reclassification Sec.

20 of RA 7160 or the Local

Department of Agrarian
1987

5.

Department of Agrarian

Government Code of 1991

Reform Adjudication Board (DARAB)

Issuances:

Sec. 13, EO 129-A

1.

MC 54, s. 1993 from the

Part Ten Financing the Program

Office of the President Prescribing

the Guidelines governing Sec. 20 of

1.

Funding Source per Sec. 63

RA 7160 Authorizing Cities And

of RA 6657 and Financing under

Municipalities to Reclassify

Secs. 21 and 22 of EO 229 (1987)

Agricultural Lands to Non-

2.

Agricultural Uses
2.

Augmentation Fund for the CARP

DAR AO 1-02 The 2002

with an Additional Amount of Fifty

Comprehensive Rules on Land

Conversion

RA 8532 (1998) Providing

Billion Pesos
3.

Additional Funding Source

Case: Fortich v. Corona, GR. No.

Sec. 21 of RA 9700, amending Sec.

131457, April 24, 1998 Decision,

63 of RA 6657

Opinion and Resolution of the Motion for

Reconsideration with the Decision of the

Part Eleven Agrarian Justice or the

Office of the President (OP) on the

Resolution of Agrarian Disputes

Sumilao Case

1.

Part Nine Mechanisms for Program

Implementation
1.

Secs. 50-53 of RA 6657

2.

Presidential Agrarian Reform

2.

DAR AO 3, S. 2003 2003

Rules on Agrarian Law

Council Secs. 41, 42, 43, 49, RA

6657

Administrative Adjudication

Implementation [ALI] Cases

3.

Provincial Agrarian Reform

The 2009 DARAB Rules of

Procedure

Coordinating Committee Secs. 44

Case: Vda. de Tangub vs. CA, UDK

and 45, RA 6657

9864, December 3, 1990

3.

Barangay Agrarian Reform

4.

Award to Beneficiaries Sec.

Committee Secs. 46 to 48, RA

9 of RA 9700 amending Sec. 24 of

6657

RA 6657

Issuance: DAR AO 3, S. 2009 Rules

6.

and Procedures Governing the

Cancellation of Registered CLOAs, EPs

the DARAB
7.

and Other Titles Issued under Any

Agrarian Reform Frogram

5.

(1997 Rules of Civil Procedure)

8.

154112. September 23, 2004

Court

Exclusive Jurisdiction on
Agrarian Dispute Sec. 19, RA 9700

Part Twelve Jurisdiction on Agrarian

amending Sec. 50-A, RA 6657

Disputes

of RA 9700 (Jurisdiction on and Referral

1.
2.

Cases:
1.

Cases:

3.

June 13, 2013

2.

Land Bank of the Phils. v.

Celada, G.R. No. 164876. January

Beneficiaries Cooperative

23, 2006

(DEARBC) v. Sangunay, G.R. No.

Land Bank of the Phils. v.

175175, September 29, 2008

180013, January 31, 2011

Part Thirteen Support Services
1.

Land Bank of the Phils. v.

14, 2007
Phil. Veterans Bank v. CA,
GR No. 132767, January 18, 2000

Support Services to
Stakeholders Secs. 36 to 29, RA

Martinez, G.R. No. 169008. August

5.

Del Monte Phils. Inc.

Employees Agrarian Reform

Heirs of Eleuterio Cruz, G.R. No.

4.

DAR v. Paramount Holdings

Equities, Inc., G.R. No. 176838,

Land Bank of the Phils. v. CA,

GR No. 128557, December 29, 1999

Jurisprudence on Jurisdiction
over Agrarian Cases

Special Agrarian Courts

Sec 57, RA 6657

Updates on Laws on Rules of

Procedure of DARAB

of Agrarian Disputes)

2.

Certiorari Sec. 54 of RA
6657 and Rule 65 of the Rules of

and Regulations Implementing Sec. 19

1.

Rule 43 of the Rules of Court

Case: DAR v. Cuenca, G.R. No.

Issuance: DAR AO 4, S. 2009 Rules

6.

Modes of Appeal/Review from

6657
2.

Prohibited Acts and

Omissions under Sec. 73 of RA
6657