Question & AnswerQ&A (Acts No. 1875)
The Governor-General, with the advice and consent of the Philippine Commission, appoints the judges of the Court of Land Registration.
Five judges may be appointed, with one serving as judge and the others as associate judges of the Court of Land Registration.
Surveyors are tasked with doing surveying work for the Court of Land Registration, including preparing or verifying all maps and plats of property applied for registration and other duties necessary for the court's functions.
The Bureau of Lands may employ up to twenty-five surveyors, each receiving a salary ranging from one thousand to three thousand pesos per annum.
The surveyor must notify adjoining property owners in advance to allow objections to boundaries, report all objections, define boundaries using temporary monuments, and designate boundaries claimed by both applicants and protesters on maps or plats.
If the court finds the boundary claimed by the protestants correct and the applicant's boundary incorrect, the cost is charged to the applicant; if the protestants' claim is incorrect, costs are charged against the protestants.
No. Private surveyors must pass either a civil-service examination or an examination by the Bureau of Lands to be authorized to conduct surveys for the Court of Land Registration.
Yes, surveys made under this Act require payment of fees as prescribed for lands presented for registration according to Act Numbered Nine hundred and twenty-six.
Yes. The application may include all parcels belonging to the applicant within the same province or city, and the court may order amendments to exclude parcels or sever the application.
Two hundred and five thousand pesos were appropriated for the judiciary, and one hundred and fifty thousand pesos for the Bureau of Lands for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1909.
Yes, fees prescribed by Section 114 of Act No. 496, except those of the sheriff and register of deeds, are suspended for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1909.
The Act took effect on July 1, 1908.
All acts or parts of acts incompatible with the provisions of this Act are repealed.