An Act Making Further Provisions than are Contained in Act Numbered One Hundred and Ninety Relating to the Procedure of the Supreme Court in the Exercise of its Original Jurisdiction in Civil Actions and in Relation to Costs to be Allowed in Such Proceedings
Act No. 1159, enacted on May 19, 1904, establishes procedures for certiorari, mandamus, and prohibition proceedings in the Supreme Court related to the actions of the Court of First Instance. It mandates that any party initiating these proceedings must include individuals interested in upholding the original court's decisions as defendants, who are responsible for defending the case. Furthermore, if costs are awarded in favor of the initiating party, they will be charged only to the interested parties and not to the judge of the Court of First Instance. The Act emphasizes the need for prompt legislative action for the public good and takes effect immediately upon passage.
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- What is An Act Making Further Provisions than are Contained in Act Numbered One Hundred and Ninety Relating to the Procedure of the Supreme Court in the Exercise of its Original Jurisdiction in Civil Actions and in Relation to Costs to be Allowed in Such Proceedings about?
- Act No. 1159, enacted on May 19, 1904, establishes procedures for certiorari, mandamus, and prohibition proceedings in the Supreme Court related to the actions of the Court of First Instance. It mandates that any party initiating these proceedings must include individuals interested in upholding the original court's decisions as defendants, who are responsible for defending the case. Furthermore, if costs are awarded in favor of the initiating party, they will be charged only to the interested parties and not to the judge of the Court of First Instance. The Act emphasizes the need for prompt legislative action for the public good and takes effect immediately upon passage.
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- An Act Making Further Provisions than are Contained in Act Numbered One Hundred and Ninety Relating to the Procedure of the Supreme Court in the Exercise of its Original Jurisdiction in Civil Actions and in Relation to Costs to be Allowed in Such Proceedings (Act No. 1159) is a Philippine Statutes enacted by the Congress of the Philippines.
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- An Act Making Further Provisions than are Contained in Act Numbered One Hundred and Ninety Relating to the Procedure of the Supreme Court in the Exercise of its Original Jurisdiction in Civil Actions and in Relation to Costs to be Allowed in Such Proceedings (Act No. 1159) was enacted on May 19, 1904.
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- An Act Making Further Provisions than are Contained in Act Numbered One Hundred and Ninety Relating to the Procedure of the Supreme Court in the Exercise of its Original Jurisdiction in Civil Actions and in Relation to Costs to be Allowed in Such Proceedings, Act No. 1159, May 19, 1904 (Philippines)
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- Congress of the Philippines
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May 19, 1904
ACT NO. 1159
AN ACT MAKING FURTHER PROVISIONS THAN ARE CONTAINED IN ACT NUMBERED ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY RELATING TO THE PROCEDURE OF THE SUPREME COURT IN THE EXERCISE OF ITS ORIGINAL JURISDICTION IN CIVIL ACTIONS AND IN RELATION TO COSTS TO BE ALLOWED IN SUCH PROCEEDINGS
SECTION 1. Whenever certiorari proceedings shall be instituted in the Supreme Court in relation to the proceedings of a Court of First Instance, as provided in section five hundred and fourteen of Act Numbered One hundred and ninety, entitled "An Act providing a Code of Procedure in civil actions and special proceedings in the Philippine Islands," and whenever mandamus proceedings shall be instituted in the Supreme Court against a judge or Court of First Instance in accordance with section five hundred and fifteen of said Act Numbered One hundred and ninety, and whenever prohibition proceedings shall be instituted in the Supreme Court against a judge or Court of First Instance in accordance with section five hundred and sixteen of Act Numbered One hundred and ninety, the party instituting such proceedings in certiorari, mandamus, or prohibition, shall, in addition to the judge of Court of First Instance, make as a party defendant the person or persons interested in sustaining the proceedings in the Court of First Instance; and it shall be the duty of such person or persons to make necessary defense in the Supreme Court, both in his or in their own behalf and in behalf of the judge or Court of First Instance affected by the proceedings, and if costs shall be awarded in favor of the party instituting such proceedings in the Supreme Court, such costs shall be awarded only against the party in interest above stated, and not against the judge of Court of First Instance who is made a defendant to the proceedings, anything in said Act Numbered One hundred and ninety to the contrary notwithstanding.
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 and four.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
ENACTED, May 19, 1904.
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An Act Making Further Provisions than are Contained in Act Numbered One Hundred and Ninety Relating to the Procedure of the Supreme Court in the Exercise of its Original Jurisdiction in Civil Actions and in Relation to Costs to be Allowed in Such Proceedings, Act No. 1159, May 19, 1904 (Philippines)
An Act Making Further Provisions than are Contained in Act Numbered One Hundred and Ninety Relating to the Procedure of the Supreme Court in the Exercise of its Original Jurisdiction in Civil Actions and in Relation to Costs to be Allowed in Such Proceedings, Act No. 1159 (Phil. 1904)
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