Rationale:
Ad proximum antecedens fiat relatio nisi impediatur sentencia.
Relative words refer to the nearest antecedent, unless it be prevented by the context. In the present case, the employment of the word "and" between "facilities, improvements, infrastructures" and "other forms of development," far from supporting petitioner's theory, enervates it instead since it is basic in legal hermeneutics that "and" is not meant to separate words but is a conjunction used to denote a joinder or union.
Facts:
Issue:
Whether or not Presidential Decree No. 957 is inapplicable to the contracts to sell involved in this case and in consequently dismissing the same.
Ruling:
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