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Two tenants filed petitions to change their status from tenants to leasehold tenants of a landowner under Section 14 of the Agricultural Tenancy Act. The landowner challenged the validity of this section in their answer. The Court of Agrarian Relations ultimately rejected the constitutional challenge and declared the relationship to be one of leasehold tenancy effective from the 1961-1962 agricultural year.

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Two tenants filed petitions to change their status from tenants to leasehold tenants of a landowner under Section 14 of the Agricultural Tenancy Act. The landowner challenged the validity of this section in their answer. The Court of Agrarian Relations ultimately rejected the constitutional challenge and declared the relationship to be one of leasehold tenancy effective from the 1961-1962 agricultural year.

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Two petitions were filed by now-respondents Victorino de los Santos and Tomas de los Santos

before respondent Court of Agrarian Relations on April 28, 1961, manifesting their desire, as tenants
of herein petitioner-landowner, Ernesto del Rosario, to take advantage of Section 14 and to adopt
the leasehold system provided, thus changing their previous status as tenants. In the answer
submitted on May 5, 1961, the validity of the above legal provision was challenged. It was not until
October 26, 1962, that a decision was rendered by the Court of Agrarian Relations, rejecting the
claim of unconstitutionality of the above section as without merit and declaring the relationship
between respondent tenants and petitioner-landowner to be one of leasehold tenancy effective as of
the agricultural year 1961-1962 in a joint decision on the two petitions filed before it. From the
aforesaid joint decision, this petition for review was filed. As in the case of the proceedings before
the Court of Agrarian Relations, a single opinion suffices to dispose of the matter and to reaffirm
once again the constitutionality of Section 14 of the Agricultural Tenancy Act.

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