Page 375 - Important Provisions of The New Civil Code

Article 1544. If the same thing should have

been sold to different vendees, the ownership

shall be transferred to the person who may have

first taken possession thereof in good faith, if it

should be movable property.

Should it be immovable property, the

ownership shall belong to the person acquiring

it who in good faith first recorded it in the

Registry of Property.

Should there be no inscription, the ownership

shall pertain to the person who in good faith

was first in the possession; and, in the absence

thereof, to the person who presents the oldest

title, provided there is good faith. (1473)