REGISTRATION OF LAND IS CONSTRUCTIVE NOTICE TO THIRD PERSONS

Category: Land Titles And Deeds

REGISTRATION OF LAND IS CONSTRUCTIVE NOTICE TO THIRD PERSONS

> The act of registration shall be the operative act to convey or affect the land insofar as third persons are concerned

> It is the act of registration which creates a constructive notice to the whole world and binds third persons

> Absent such registration, a conveyance doesn’t affect or bind the land

> Under the rule on notice, there is a conclusive presumption that the purchaser has examined every instrument of record affecting the title

> He is charged with notice of every fact shown by the record and is presumed to know every fact shown by the record and is presumed to know every fact which an examination of the record would have disclosed

> Since it is the act of registration which transfers ownership of the land sold, it has been held that a subsequent claimant cannot claim a better right over the land which had been previously registered in the name of another.

> A notice of lis pendens serves as a warniong to a prospective purchaser or encumbrancer that the particular property is in litigation and that he should keep his hands off the same, unless he intends to gamble on the results of the litigation