04/02/2020 E-Library - Information At Your Fingertips: Printer Friendly [47] Id. at 5-6. [48] Id. at 13. [49] Teodoro A. Agoncillo, History of the Filipino People, p. 54 [1990]. [50] Corpuz, supra, at 5. [51] Id. at 44-45. [52] Agoncillo, supra, at 40. [53] Id. at 40-41. [54] Rafael Iriarte, History of the Judicial System, the Philippine Indigenous Era Prior to 1565, unpublished work submitted as entry to the Centennial Essay-Writing Contest sponsored by the National Centennial Commission and the Supreme Court in 1997, p. 103, citing Perfecto V. Fernandez, Customs Laws in Pre-Conquest Philippines, UP Law Center, p. 10 [1976]. [55] Agoncillo, supra, at 41. [56] Amelia Alonzo, The History of the Judicial System in the Philippines, Indigenous Era Prior to 1565, unpublished work submitted as entry to the Centennial EssayWriting Contest sponsored by the National Centennial Commission and the Supreme Court in 1997. [57] Agoncillo, supra, at 42. [58] Renato Constantino, A Past Revisited , p. 38 [1975]. [59] Samuel K. Tan, A History of the Philippines, published by the Manila Studies Ass'n., Inc. and the Phil. National Historical Society, Inc., p. 43 [1997]. [60] Id. [61] Id. at 43-44. [62] Tan, supra, at 47-48. [63] Id. at 48-49. [64] Cacho v. Government of the P.I., 28 Phil. 616, 625-627 [1914]; see also Ponce, The Philippine Torrens System, pp. 11-12 [1964]. In Philippine pre-colonial history, there was only one recorded transaction on the purchase of land. The Maragtas Code tells us of the purchase of Panay Island by ten Bornean datus led by Datu Puti from the Atis under Marikudo in the 13th century. The purchase price for the island was a gold salakot and a long gold necklace - Agoncillo, supra, at 25. elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocsfriendly/1/36882 58/148