TITLE: EMILIA B. SANTIAGO, plaintiff-appellant, vs. PIONEER SAVINGS AND LOAN BANK, ET. AL.

, defendants-appellees PONENTE: Justice Melencio-Herrera DATE: January 15, 1988 SUBJECT MATTER: Extrajudicial Foreclosure I. FACTS Emilia Santiago is the registered owner of the disputed property. On April 7, 1983 she executed a Special Power of Attorney in favor of Construction Resources Corporation of the Philippines (CRCP) authorizing and empowering it to borrow money, make and execute, sign and deliver mortgages or real estate owned by her and standing in her name to make, sign and deliver any and all promissory notes necessary in the premises. On April 8, 1983, CRCP executed a Real Estate Mortgage over the disputed property in favor of FINASIA Investment and Finance Corporation to secure a loan of P1 million. The mortgage contract specifically provided that in the event of default in payment, the mortgagee may immediately foreclose the mortgage judicially or extrajudicially. On July 29, 1983, FINASIA executed an Outright Sale of Receivables without Recourse in favor of Pioneer Savings and Loan Bank and on May 21, 1981, FINASIA executed a Supplemental Deed of Assignment in favor or Pioneer confirming and ratifying the assignment in the latters favor of the receivables from CRCP and of the mortgage constituted by CRCP over the disputed property. CRCP failed to settle its obligation and Pioneer opted for extrajudicial foreclosure of the mortgage. CONTENTION OF THE PETITIONER Santiago claimed that she was not aware of any real estate mortgage she had executed in favor of Pioneer; that she had not authorized anyone to execute any document for the extrajudicial foreclosure if the real estate mortgage constituted on the disputed property and since the notice of Sheriffs sale did not include her as a party to the foreclosure proceedings, it is not binding on her nor on her property. CONTENTION OF THE RESPONDENT Pioneer opposed the application for Preliminary Injunction and asserted its right to extrajudicially foreclose the mortgage on the disputed property based on recorded public documents. II. ISSUE TO BE RESOLVED Whether or not Santiago is entitled to any relief from extrajudicial foreclosure of her property. III. RULING OF THE SUPREME COURT The evidence on record sufficiently defeats Santiagos claim for relief from extrajudicial foreclosure. Her Special Power of Attorney in favor of CRCP specifically included the authority to mortgage the Disputed Property. The Real Estate Mortgage in favor of FINASIA explicitly authorized foreclosure in the event of default. Indeed, foreclosure is but a necessary consequence of non-payment of mortgage indebtedness. Santiago therefore, cannot rightfully claim that FINASIA, as the assignee of the mortgage cannot extrajudicially foreclose the mortgaged property. A mortgage directly and immediately subjects the property upon which it is imposed to the fulfillment of the obligation for whose security it was constituted. The assignment of receivables made by FINASIA to Pioneer was valid since a mortgage credit may be alienated or assigned to a third person, in whole or in part, with the formalities required by law. Said formalities were complied with in this case. The assignment was made in a public instrument and proper recording in the Registry of Property was made. While notice may not have been given to Santiago personally, the publication of the Notice of Sheriffs Sale, as required by law, is notice to the whole world.