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	GR NO. 140847 2005-09-23	HOSPICIO DE SAN JOSE DE BARILI v. DEPARTMENT OF AGRARIAN REFORM
P.D. No. 27, "Decreeing the Emancipation of Tenants from the Bondage of the Soil, Transferring to Them Ownership of the Land they Till, and Providing the Instrument and Mechanism Therefor," has once been touted as perhaps "a radical solution in its pristine sense, one that goes at the root [of the problem of land tenancy]."[8] Its constitutionality was upheld in De Chavez v. Zobel.[9] The law generally "ordains the emancipation of tenants and confers on them ownership of the lands they till."[10] The following provisions of P.D. No. 27 have concretized this policy: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution as Commander-in-Chief of all the Armed Forces of the Philippines, and pursuant to Proclamation No. 1081, dated September 21, 1972, and General Order No. 1 dated September 22, 1972, as amended do hereby decree and order the emancipation of all tenant farmers as of this day, October 21, 1972;