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Reform Presupposes that something is deformed or malformed, or that something is defective, hence, needs reformation and correction.

Land Reform Denotes a broad concept of conventional and revolutionary measures intended to correct certain defects in the relationship between landowner and tiller regarding their rights and obligations in the cultivation and the management of the landholding. Agrarian Reform Refer not only to the land reform but also embraces a full range of measures designed to improve the relationship between landowner and tiller, employer and employee, etc including their economic, social and political relations with the community and the government. Agrarian Structure Refers to that complex set of relationships within the agricultural sector between tenure structure, production structure and structure for supporting services. Land Tenure Structure Is a concept that connotes one or more types of land tenure system regulating the rights to ownership and control and usages of land and the duties accompanying such rights. a. Agricultural Tenancy Refers to the manner of holding agricultural lands involving the question of whether share tenancy or leasehold tenancy should be adopted. Share Tenancy Under this system of landholding, tillers work the land as sharecroppers entitled to share in the produce of the land. Leasehold Tenancy Is a tenurial system which was instituted by R.A. No. 3844 (Code of Agrarian Reforms) characterized by lessor and lessee relationship which is created either by written or oral agreement between the parties, or impliedly by acceptance of benefits by the landowner, legal possessor, e. d. -

usufructuary or agent from the tenantfarmer or by an act of cultivation thru the toleration of the landowner. Amortizing Owner A tenant-farmer whose status had been raised automatically by operation of law from leasehold tenant to that of amortizing owner, who makes repayments of the purchase price of the land he tills to the LandBank in amortization basis or installments. An amortizing owner by operation of law (P.D. 27) is entitled to the Emancipation Patent which serve as a farm holders provisional title of ownership to the land upon completion of his amortization repayments to the Land bank or to the landowner in cases of farmers who have been amortizing their lands with the landowner. Full Owner-Owner Cultivator Is an amortizing owner (tenant-farmer) who has completed full payment of his amortization to the Land bank of the Philippines, and is therefore entitled to a certificate of title as evidence of his indefeasible and dominical ownership over the property covered by the said title under the Torrens system. Owner-Cultivator Is the term applied to tenant-farmer who has attained the status of full owner and qualified beneficiary under the Agrarian Reform Law of the Phils including the CARL of 1988 and who has complied with all the obligations under the law including the full payment of his amortization to the Land Bank that entitles him either Emancipation Patent under P.D 27, certificates of landowner award (CLOA) under R.A. 6657 and a certificate of title under the Torrens System.

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LAND REFORM MEASURES RETRACED Treaty of Paris (1898) The initial step taken under the American regime was the confiscation of friar lands. Lands confiscated were distributed among

peasants by the independent of Malolos during the Philippine Revolution. Philippine Bill ( 1902) This bill limited private individual landholdings to 16 hectares, and corporate landholdings to 1,024 hectares. It also gave Americans

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