Description
This humble work is a product of months of meticulous research and in-depth analysis by the Author of the various extant social legislations that pervade our statute books, among which are an assortment of agrarian reform laws.
By way of introduction, the book traced the evolution of our present agrarian laws from as far back as the period of the encomienda system of plantations, a labor system rewarding conquerors with the labor of particular groups of people, which was introduced and institutionalized by the Spanish settlement in the Philippines during its period of colonization from 1521 to 1898. Then, it progressed to the American occupation from 1898 to 1946 when the Insular Government, the name by which the U.S. civil administration in the Philippines was then known, bought the major part of the Spanish friars’ landholdings mostly situated in the vicinity of Manila which were subsequently resold to Filipino citizens who were either estate owners or agricultural tenants.
