- This Land is Mine !
- Atty. Oliver G. Francisco
- Publisher: Central Books Supply Inc
- ISBN: 978-621-02-2096-4
- No. of Pages: 81
- Size: 6 x 8
- Edition: 2023
Description:
Well into his third year as a practicing lawyer, Kort is attending a hearing in Congress on a matter of transcendental importance: a long-standing land dispute is about to reach its boiling point on the island City of Noguera.
A group indigenous to the area claims the land as their ancestral domain, owned by them and their forefathers before them since time immemorial. A military general insists that the armed forces is the legal possessor of the land, citing a presidential proclamation which classified the tract of land as a military reservation. A powerful corporation will assert their claim to the territory by any means necessary. Then there are the landless farmers whom Kort has sworn to protect.
Kort is well versed in all of the pertinent land laws: CA No. 141, certain provisions of the Civil Code, the Constitution, the IPRA as well as the relevant jurisprudential precedents and whatnot, which he is going to employ in advancing his clients’ cause. But his opponents have their own aces up their sleeves too.
It is feared that the issue will never be resolved amicably, and a violent conflict among the four factions is a foregone conclusion.
Having a sudden epiphany, Kort realizes that a peaceful resolution to the strife lies with the strange, elusive creature that lives in a subterranean cavern concealed amidst the roiling fog in the feared and shunned area called Ogre’s Haunt. Kort will have to summon the creature to testify in Congress, provided he can muster enough courage to serve the subpoena...
A treatise on the simultaneous application of the different land laws in the Philippines and a gripping yarn in equal parts, this is yet again a tale like no other!
“First, Atty. Francisco’s outlandish characters will have you enthralled. Then the over-the-top humor will have you giggling. But by the time you put down the book, the legal knowledge that Atty. Francisco set out to discuss will have become seared into your mind.”
— Editor Divina Galang-de Guzman
