An Act Amending the Land Registration Act, as Amended by Section Four of Act Numbered Eleven Hundred and Eight, so as to Fix the Time within which Appeals and Bills of Exceptions Must be Perfected in the Court of Land Registration

May 9, 1906

ACT NO. 1484

AN ACT AMENDING THE LAND REGISTRATION ACT, AS AMENDED BY SECTION FOUR OF ACT NUMBERED ELEVEN HUNDRED AND EIGHT, SO AS TO FIX THE TIME WITHIN WHICH APPEALS AND BILLS OF EXCEPTIONS MUST BE PERFECTED IN THE COURT OF LAND REGISTRATION

SECTION 1. Section fourteen of Act Numbered Four hundred and ninety-six, entitled "The Land Registration Act," as amended by section four of Act Numbered Eleven hundred and eight, is hereby further amended by adding at the end of the last proviso therein contained and immediately before the paragraph marked "(a)" the following words: "AND PROVIDED FURTHER, That the period within which the litigating parties must file their appeal and bills of exception against the final judgment of the Court of Land Registration shall be thirty days, counting from the date on which the party received a copy of the decision, which period may, in the discretion of the court, in writing be extended to sixty days if the hearing of the cases was had in the provinces, or if they relate to lands situated outside of the city of Manila."

SECTION 2. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect July first, nineteen hundred and six.

ENACTED, May 9, 1906.