Talk:Mateo Cariño
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Mateo Cariño's land titles
editMateo Cariño did not have titles to his lands. According to Justice Holmes "... [n]o document of title, however, had issued from the Spanish Crown, and although, in 1893-1894, and again in 1896-1897, he made application for one under the royal decrees then in force, nothing seems to have come of it, unless, perhaps, information that lands in Benguet could not be conceded until those to be occupied for a sanatorium, etc., had been designated,—a purpose that has been carried out by the Philippine government and the United States."1 In addition "... [t]he US Supreme Court also noted that even the Solicitor General admitted that the Igorots were hardly ruled by the Spanish government. That being, it is unlikely that the Spanish government would grant land titles to the Igorots even if they will register their land under the old Spanish Law."2 This was one reason why the US Supreme Court overturned an earlier ruling that Cariño is not the owner of the land because he has no titles to it.
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1 https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/212/449
2 https://uberdigests.info/2014/10/mateo-carino-vs-the-insular-government-february-1909/?print=print Sivicako (talk) 03:54, 22 August 2024 (UTC)