Civil Code Art. 673: Legal Easements

Statute: Civil Code
Article: Art. 673
Topic: Legal Easements
Book: BOOK II PROPERTY, OWNERSHIP, AND ITS MODIFICATIONS
Title: TITLE VII EASEMENTS OF SERVITUDES
Chapter: CHAPTER 2 Legal Easements
Formerly: Art. 585a of the old Civil Code
Year: 1949

The provision

Whenever by any title a right has been acquired to have direct views, balconies or belvederes overlooking an adjoining property, the owner of the servient estate cannot build thereon at less than a distance of three meters to be measured in the manner provided in article 671. Any stipulation permitting distances less than those prescribed in article 670 is void. (585a)

Cases applying this article

Sps. Tedy Garcia v. Loreta T. Santos G.R. No. 228334

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