04/02/2020 E-Library - Information At Your Fingertips: Printer Friendly public ministers and consuls, and over petitions for certiorari, prohibition, mandamus, quo warranto, and habeas corpus. xxx Batas Pambansa Blg. 129 (B.P. 129), as amended, provides: Sec. 9. Jurisdiction.--The Court of Appeals shall exercise: (1) Original jurisdiction to issue writs of mandamus, prohibition, certiorari, habeas corpus, and quo warranto, and auxiliary writs or processes, whether or not in aid of its appellate jurisdiction; x x x. Sec. 21. Original jurisdiction in other cases.-- Regional Trial Courts shall exercise original jurisdiction: (1) In the issuance of writs of certiorari, prohibition, mandamus, quo warranto, habeas corpus and injunction which may be enforced in any part of their respective regions; and (2) In actions affecting ambassadors and other public ministers and consuls. [57] Tano vs. Socrates, 278 SCRA 154, 173-174 (1997). [58] 172 SCRA 415 (1989). [59] Id., at 424. [60] Section 7. Rights to Ancestral Domains.--The rights of ownership and possession of ICCs/IPs to their ancestral domains shall be recognized and protected. Such rights shall include: (a) Right of Ownership. - The right to claim ownership over lands, bodies of water traditionally and actually occupied by ICCs/IPs, sacred places, traditional (b) hunting and fishing grounds, and all improvements made by them at any time within the domains; xxx [61] Section 3(l) Native Title - refers to pre-conquest rights to lands and domains which, as far back as memory reaches, have been held under a claim of private ownership by ICCs/IPs, have never been public lands and are thus indisputably presumed to have been held that way since before the Spanish Conquest; x x x Section 3(p) Time Immemorial - refers to a period of time when as far back as memory can go, certain ICCs/IPs are known to have occupied, possessed in the elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocsfriendly/1/36882 113/148