Edited sentence: 27 which detailed the first comprehensive agrarian reform order that was attempted in the country.A month later, he issued Presidential Decree no.According to the law, an individual cannot own more than seven hectares of land.During the Spanish regime, Philippines land ownership was ruled by private sectors, generally by the encomenderos, large landlords and friar feudal haciendas.Even though there are some agrarian rights established by the American colonial government, few were only given initiatives and the rich agrarian families in countryside continue to rule their own lands.If this may happen, the remaining area will be parceled out and will be divided into individual tenants.If, however, there are sharecroppers sharing lands with less than seven hectares of land area, the land will be converted to leaseholders with fixed rents.In 1972, President Ferdinand Marcos, issued second presidential order after the Martial Law, stating that the Philippines is a land reform nation.It was during the American occupation that agrarian reform finally stabilized.Only rice and corn fields were included to the PD 27.Small farmers were struggling at that time for agrarian rights, especially that titular system was not infamous and ancestral domainship is their only legal basis for ownership.Such tenant may enjoy a maximum of three hectares of irrigated land, or five hectares of unused land, where the new owners will pay royalty taxes and the computable amount of land to the original landholders for a maximum of fifteen years