NATIONAL GRAINS AUTHORITY vs. INTERMEDIATE APPELLATE COURT PARAS, J.

: Facts: Spouses Lizardo sold a parcel of land with a right to repurchase to the respondents and recorded the same in the Register of Deeds. The spouses failed to deliver the certificate of title. From the execution of sale, private respondent have remained in peaceful, adverse and open possession of subject property. On February 26, 1975, an Original Certificate of Title was issued to and in the name of the spouses without the knowledge of the private respondents, said Spouses executed a Special Power of Attorney in favor of Irenea Ramirez authorizing the latter to mortgage the property with the petitioner, National Grains Authority (NGA). Later, the NGA acquired the said land through the public auction. When the NGA ordered spouses Magcamit and Corsino to vacate the land, the latter refuses to vacate. Hence, the case was brought to the court. Issue: Is the failure to deliver the certificate of title constitutes a breach of trust sufficient to defeat the title and right acquired by petitioner NGA? Held: No. The setting aside of the decree of registration issued in land registration proceedings is operative only between the parties to the fraud and the parties defrauded and their privies, but not against acquirers in good faith and for value and the successors in interest of the latter; as to them the decree shall remain in full force and effect forever (Domingo vs. The Mayon Realty Corp. et al., 102 Phil. 32 [19571). As correctly declared by the trial court, the National Grains Authority is the lawful owner of the property in question by virtue of its indefeasible title.
Once a title is registered, the owner may rest secure, without the necessity of waiting in the portals of the court, or sitting on the "mirador su casato," avoid the possibility of losing his land