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Presidential Decree No. 957

Also: PD 957, Subdivision and Condominium Buyers' Protective Decree, The Buyers' Protection Decree

Presidential Decree No. 957 (commonly known as the Subdivision and Condominium Buyers' Protective Decree) is a Philippine law enacted on July 12, 1976, to protect…

Anti-Subversion Act of 1957

Also: Republic Act No. 1700, RA 1700, Anti-Subversion Law

The Anti-Subversion Act of 1957 is the short title of Republic Act No. 1700, "An Act to Outlaw the Communist Party of the Philippines and…

Overseas Filipinos

Also: Overseas Filipino, Filipino diaspora

Overseas Filipinos are people of Filipino origin living outside the Philippines — a diaspora that spans permanent emigrants and their descendants, temporary contract workers, and…

Presidential Decree 957

Also: Presidential Decree 957, PD 957, Subdivision and Condominium Buyers' Protective Decree

Presidential Decree 957 (PD 957) is the foundational law regulating the sale and development of subdivision lots and condominium units in the Philippines. Enacted in…

PD 957

Also: PD957, PD 957, Presidential Decree No. 957

PD 957 (Presidential Decree No. 957), also known as the Subdivision and Condominium Buyers' Protective Decree, is the primary consumer protection law governing the real…

Republic Act No. 11201

Also: RA 11201, DHSUD Act, Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development Act

Republic Act No. 11201 (commonly known as the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development Act) is a Philippine law signed on February 14, 2019,…

Republic Act No. 4726

Also: RA 4726, The Condominium Act, Condominium Act of 1966

Republic Act No. 4726 (commonly known as The Condominium Act) is a Philippine law enacted on June 18, 1966, that defines the legal concept of…

Republic Act No. 7279

Also: RA 7279, Urban Development and Housing Act, UDHA

Republic Act No. 7279 (commonly known as the Urban Development and Housing Act of 1992 or UDHA) is a comprehensive Philippine law enacted on March…

Ratification Cases

Also: Javellana v. Executive Secretary — the lead case's caption, the set's usual citation, The Javellana case — the short form of Philippine constitutional literature, The 1973 Ratification Cases

The Ratification Cases is the collective title for the five consolidated petitions the Supreme Court of the Philippines decided en banc on March 31, 1973,…

Customs Modernization and Tariff Act

Also: CMTA (statutory abbreviation from Section 100), Republic Act No. 10863, RA 10863

The Customs Modernization and Tariff Act (CMTA) is Republic Act No. 10863, "An Act Modernizing the Customs and Tariff Administration," signed by President Benigno S.…

Philippine television

Also: TV in the Philippines, Philippine TV broadcasting industry, Television broadcasting in the Philippines

Philippine television is the television broadcasting system and industry of the Philippines — the set of networks, stations, regulators, and audiences that has operated in…

Philippine Immigration Act of 1940

Also: Commonwealth Act No. 613, CA 613, Philippine Immigration Act

The Philippine Immigration Act of 1940, officially Commonwealth Act No. 613 and formally "An Act to Control and Regulate the Immigration of Aliens into the…

Eugenio López Sr.

Also: Eugenio Lopez Sr, Eugenio Hofileña López, Eñing

Eugenio Hofileña López Sr. (July 20, 1901, Jaro, Iloilo – July 5, 1975, San Francisco, California), known as Eñing, was a Filipino businessman and media…

Bureau of Plant Industry

Also: BPI, Kawanihan ng Industriya sa Paghahalaman — the Filipino name carried in the reference record, DA-BPI — the departmental styling

The Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) is the Department of Agriculture's crops bureau — the government service for plant research and crop production, plant quarantine,…

National Defense College of the Philippines

Also: NDCP, National Defense College of the Armed Forces of the Philippines — the founding title of EO 44, 1963, National Defense College — the short form the pre-1973 records use

The National Defense College of the Philippines (NDCP) is the country's premier graduate institution for defense and national-security education — the school of the Master…

Subdivision and Condominium Buyers Protection

Subdivision and condominium buyers protection refers to the Philippine legal framework — anchored on Presidential Decree No. 957 and governed today through the Department of…

Also: Lorenzo M. Tañada — the initials styling of his official records, Ka Tanny — the familiar address of a half-century of movement politics, The Grand Old Man of Philippine politics — the standard epithet

Lorenzo Tañada (Lorenzo Martínez Tañada; August 10, 1898, Gumaca, Tayabas, now Quezon – May 28, 1992, Manila) was a Filipino lawyer, prosecutor, and politician whose…

Javellana v. Executive Secretary

Also: The Ratification Cases — the collective title for the five consolidated petitions, The 1973 Ratification Cases, Javellana — the short citation in Philippine constitutional literature

Javellana v. Executive Secretary (G.R. No. L-36142, March 31, 1973, decided en banc by the Supreme Court of the Philippines) was the case — known…

Diosdado Macapagal

Also: Diosdado Pangan Macapagal — full name, The Poor Boy from Lubao — the political persona built on his Pampanga childhood, President Macapagal — standard short form of his presidency

Diosdado Pangan Macapagal (September 28, 1910, Lubao, Pampanga – April 21, 1997, Makati) was a Filipino lawyer, economist, and statesman, the ninth President of the…

Suburban Home

Also: Subdivision Home, Horizontal Development, Suburban House

A Suburban Home, in the context of the Philippine real estate market, refers to a single-family residential dwelling located in the peripheral residential developments or…

Condominium Buyers

Also: Condo Buyers, Condominium Unit Purchasers, Real Estate Investors Philippines

Condominium Buyers in the Philippines are individuals or corporate entities who purchase individual units in a condominium project, acquiring exclusive ownership of their unit and…

Land Use Regulatory Board

Also: Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB), Human Settlements Regulatory Commission (historical name), DHSUD Land Use Planning and Bureau (successor)

The Land Use Regulatory Board (officially known as the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board or HLURB) was the premier government regulatory agency in the…

Subdivision Lot

Also: Residential Lot, Subdivision Lot (PD 957), Housing Lot

A Subdivision Lot in the Philippines refers to a specific parcel of land that has been partitioned from a larger tract of land as part…

Real Estate

Also: Real Property, Immovable Property, Land and Improvements

Real Estate is a legal, financial, and economic term referring to land and any permanent, man-made structures attached to it, such as residential houses, commercial…

Community Settlement

Also: Residential subdivision, Housing settlement, Suburban housing project

A Community Settlement (commonly referring to a residential subdivision, housing project, or barangay settlement area) is a planned or organic cluster of housing units in…

Subdivision Developer

Also: Land developer, Real estate developer, Housing developer

A Subdivision Developer is an individual or a corporate entity engaged in the business of acquiring raw land, subdividing it into residential or commercial lots,…

Presidential Decree No 957 (disambiguation)