Payment of damages in expropriation


Exemplary damages and attorney’s fees should be awarded to the landowner if the government takes possession of the property for a prolonged period of time without properly initiating expropriation proceedings.[1]



[1] Sy v. Local Government of Quezon City, G.R. No. 202690, June 05, 2013.

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