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RA 26 Section 20

RA 26 Section 20

Section 20

SEC. 20. If the registered owner or any other person withholds, refuses or fails, within a reasonable time after request, to produce the owner's duplicate or any other duplicate of a certificate of title, for cancellation or annotation as provided in sections eighteen and nineteen of this Act, the register of deeds shall report the fact to the proper Court of First Instance and the court, after notice and hearing, may order the person concerned to produce the duplicate in his possession at the time and place named in the order, and may enforce the same by suitable process.

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CitationRA 26 Section 20 (LawPlayer, data as of July 4, 2026)

Source: Supreme Court E-Library, Republic of the Philippines. Philippine laws are public documents (works of the government).

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