Tiglao v. Insular Government of the Philippine Islands

Citations

• 215 U.S. 410
• 30 S. Ct. 129
• 54 L. Ed. 257
• 1910 U.S. LEXIS 1849

Syllabus

<p>Writ of error and not appeal is the proper method to bring up to this court a judgment of the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands in a case affecting title to land in Court of Land Registration. Cariño v. Insular Government, 212 U. S. 449.</p> <p>In this case the grant involved was made, withput authority by subordinate officials, was void ab initio, and conveyed no title to the original grantee or those holding under him.'</p> <p>A man cannot take advantage of his ignorance of the law, and where all that is done to give him a title is insufficient on its face, the grantee is chargeable with knowledge, does not hold in good faith, -and in such a case prescription does not run from the date of the instrument under which he claims.</p>