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PRESCRIPTION OF OWNERSHIP AND OTHER recorded; and the time shall begin to run from the
REAL RIGHTS recording of the latter.
Art. 1117. Acquisitive prescription of dominion As to lands registered under the Land
and other real rights may be ordinary or Registration Act, the provisions of that special law
extraordinary. shall govern. (1949a)
Ordinary acquisitive prescription requires
possession of things in good faith and with just Art. 1127. The good faith of the possessor
title for the time fixed by law. (1940a) consists in the reasonable belief that the person
from whom he received the thing was the owner
Art. 1118. Possession has to be in the concept of thereof, and could transmit his ownership.
an owner, public, peaceful and uninterrupted. (1950a)
(1941)
Art. 1128. The conditions of good faith required
Art. 1119. Acts of possessory character executed for possession in Articles 526, 527, 528, and 529
in virtue of license or by mere tolerance of the of this Code are likewise necessary for the
owner shall not be available for the purposes of determination of good faith in the prescription of
possession. (1942) ownership and other real rights. (1951)
Art. 1120. Possession is interrupted for the Art. 1129. For the purposes of prescription, there
purposes of prescription, naturally or civilly. is just title when the adverse claimant came into
(1943) possession of the property through one of the
modes recognized by law for the acquisition of
Art. 1121. Possession is naturally interrupted ownership or other real rights, but the grantor was
when through any cause it should cease for more not the owner or could not transmit any right. (n)
than one year.
Art. 1130. The title for prescription must be true
The old possession is not revived if a new and valid. (1953)
possession should be exercised by the same
adverse claimant. (1944a) Art. 1131. For the purposes of prescription, just
title must be proved; it is never presumed.
Art. 1122. If the natural interruption is for only one (1954a)
year or less, the time elapsed shall be counted in
favor of the prescription. (n)