Act No. 2259

PHILIPPINE LAWS, STATUTES, CODES & ISSUANCES


PHILIPPINE LAWS, STATUTES AND CODES - CHAN ROBLES VIRTUAL LAW LIBRARY

ACTS





ACT NO. 2259

ACT NO. 2259 - THE CADASTRAL ACT
�

Section 1. When, in the opinion of the Governor-General (now the President), the public interests require that the title to any lands be titled and adjudicated, he may to this end order the Director of Lands to make a survey and plan thereof. (As amended by Sec. 1850, Act No. 2711.)

The Director of Lands shall, thereupon, give notice to persons claiming an interest in the lands, and to the general public, of the day on which such survey will begin, giving as full and accurate a description as possible of the lands to be surveyed. Such notice shall be published in two successive issues of the Official Gazette, and a copy of the notice in the English and Spanish languages shall be posted in a conspicuous place on the chief municipal building of the municipality, township or settlement in which the lands, or any portion thereof, are situated. A copy of the notice shall also be sent to the president of such municipality, township, or settlement, and to the provincial board. (As amended by Sec. 1851, Act No. 2711.)

Sec. 2. The surveyor or other employees of the Bureau of Lands in charge of the survey shall give reasonable notice to the day on which the survey of any portion of such lands is to begin, and shall post such notice in the usual place on the chief municipal building of such municipality, township, or settlement in which the lands are situated, and shall mark the boundaries of the lands by monuments set up at proper places thereon. (As amended by Sec. 1852, Act No. 2711.)

Sec. 3. (Repealed by Act No. 2711.)

Sec. 4. It shall be lawful for surveyors and other employees of the Bureau of Lands to enter upon the lands whenever necessary for the making of such survey or for the placing of monuments. (As amended by Sec. 1853, Act No. 2711.)

It shall be the duty of every person claiming an interest in the lands to be surveyed, or in any parcel thereof, to communicate to the surveyor in charge upon his request therefor all information possessed by such person concerning the boundary lines of any lands to which he claims title or in which he claims any interest. (As amended by Sec. 1584, Act No. 2711.)

Interference with surveys and monuments. Any person who shall interfere with the making of any survey undertaken by the Bureau of Lands, or shall interfere with the placing of any monument in connection with any such survey, or shall deface, destroy, or remove any monuments so placed, or shall alter the location of any such monument, or shall destroy or remove any notice of survey posted on the land pursuant to law, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred pesos or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days or both. (As amended by Sec. 2753, Act No. 2711.)

Sec. 5. When the lands have been surveyed and platted, the Director of Lands represented by the Attorney-General (now Solicitor General), shall institute registration proceedings, by petition against the holders, claimants, possessors, or occupants of such lands or any part thereof, stating in substance that the public interests require that the titles to such lands be settled and adjudicated, and praying that such titles be so settled and adjudicated.

The petition shall contain a description of the lands and shall be accompanied by a plan thereof, and may contain such other data as may serve to furnish full notice to the occupants of the lands and to all persons who may claim any right or interest therein. (As amended by Sec. 1855, Act No. 2711.)

If the lands contain two or more parcels held or occupied by different persons, the plan shall indicate the boundaries or limits of the various parcels as correctly as may be. The parcels shall be known as "lots" and shall on the plans filed in the case be given separate numbers by the Director of Lands, which numbers shall be known is "cadastral numbers." The lots situated within each municipality, township or settlement, shall, as far as practicable, be numbered consecutively, beginning with the number "one" and only one series of numbers shall be used for that purpose in each municipality, township, or settlement.

In cities or townsites, a designation of the land holdings by block and lot numbers may be employed instead of the designation by cadastral numbers and shall have the same effect for all purposes as the latter. (As amended by Sec. 1856, .Act No. 2711.)

Sec. 6. After final decree has been entered for the registration of a lot, its cadastral number shall not be changed except by order of the Court of First Instance. Future subdivisions of any lot shall, with the approval of said Court, be designated by a letter or letters of the alphabet added to the cadastral number of the lot to which the respective subdivisions pertain. The letter with which a subdivision, is designated shall be known as its "cadastral letter": Provided, however, That subdivisions of additions to cities or town sites may, with the approval of the court, be designated by block and lot numbers instead of cadastral numbers and letters.

All subdivisions under this section shall be made in accordance with the provisions of section forty-four of Act Numbered Four hundred and ninety-six and the provisions of section fifty-eight of the said Act shall be applicable to conveyances of lands so subdivided.

Sec. 7. Upon the receipt of the order of the court setting the time for initial hearing of the petition, the Chief of the General Land Registration Office shall cause notice thereof to be published twice, in successive issues of the Official Gazette, in the English language. The notice shall be issued by order of the court, attested by the Chief of the General Land Registration Office, and shall be in form substantially as follows:

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
Court of First Instance, Province of __________
Cadastral Case No. _____
G.L.R.O. Cadastral Record No. _____

NOTICE OF HEARING

To (here insert the names of all persons appearing to have an interest and the adjoining owners so far as known), and to all whom it may concern:

WHEREAS, a petition has been presented to said Court by the Director of Lands., praying that the titles to the following described lands or the various parcels thereof be settled and adjudicated (insert description), you are hereby cited to appear et the Court of First Instance to be held at _____, in the Province of _______, on the day of ___, 19___, at ___ o'clock, to present such claims as you may have to said lands or any portion thereof, and to present evidence, if any you have, in support of such claims.

And unless you appear at said court at the time and place aforesaid, your default will be recorded and the titles to the lands will be adjudicated and determined in accordance with the prayer of the petition and upon the evidence before the Court and you will be forever barred from contesting such petition or any decree entered thereon.

WITNESS _____, Judge of said Court, this __ day of ____, 19 __.
ISSUED at Manila, Philippines, this __ day of _____, 19__

ATTEST:
_________________
Chief of the General
Land Registration Office

(As amended by Sec. 3, Rep. Act No. 96., and Sec. 3, Rep. Act No. 1151.)

Sec. 8. The return of said notice shall not be less than thirty days nor more than one year from the date of issue. The Chief of the General Land Registration Office shall also. within seven days after the publication of said notice in the Official Gazette, as hereinbefore provided, cause a copy of the notice to be mailed to every person named therein whose address is known. Said official shall also cause a duly, attested copy of the notice to be posted, in a conspicuous place on the lands included in the petition and also in a conspicuous place upon the chief municipal building of the city, municipality, township, or settlement in which the lands or a portion thereof are situated, by the sheriff of the province, or by his deputy, or by such other person as may be designated by the Chief of the General Land Registration Office, fourteen days at least before the return day thereof. A copy of the notice shall also be sent by registered mail to the Mayor of the city, municipality, township, or settlement in which the lands are situated and to the Provincial Governor. The court may cause other or further notice of the petition to be given in such manner and to such persons as it may deem proper. (As amended by Sec. 4 of Republic Act No. 96.)

Sec. 9. Any person claiming any interest in any part of the lands, whether named in the notice or not, shall appear before the Court by himself, or by some person in his behalf and shall file an answer on or before the return day or within such further time as may be allowed by the Court. The answer shall be signed and sworn to by the claimant or by some person in his behalf, and shall state whether the claimant is married or unmarried, and, if married, the name of the husband or wife and the date of the marriage, and shall also contain:

(a) The age of the claimant.

(b) The cadastral number of the lot or lots claimed, as appearing on the plan filed in the case by the Director of Lands, or the block and lot numbers, as the case may be.

(c) The name of the barrio and municipality, township, or settlement in which the lots are situated.

(d) The names of the owners of the adjoining lots as far as known to the claimant.

(e) If the claimant is in possession of the lots claimed and can show no express grant of the land by the Government to him or to his predecessors in interest, the answer shall state the length of time he has held such possession and the manner in which it has been acquired, and shall also state the length of time, as far as known, during which his predecessors, if any, held possession.

(f) If the claimant is not in possession or occupation of the lands, the answer shall fully set forth the interest claimed by him and the time and manner of its acquisition.

(g) If the lots have been assessed for taxation, their last assessed value.

(h) The encumbrance, if any, affecting the lots and the names of the adverse claimants as far as known.

Sec. 10. The governor of the province shall, upon the request of the court, detail an officer or employee of the province to assist the defendants in action brought under this Act in the preparation of their pleadings and evidence, without cost to them: Provided, however, That the court may in its discretion, detail any of its employees to perform such service, and in case of the failure of the provincial governor to make suitable provision for the assistance of the defendants as above set forth, the court may, with the approval of the Secretary of Justice, employ for such purpose the necessary personnel, to be paid out of provincial funds. The officer or employee detailed, or the person employed to assist the defendants, shall prepare their answer, which shall be sworn to before such officer, employee or person. No fees shall be charged for the preparation, acknowledgment and filing of answer, nor shall a documentary stamp be required. The court shall, at some convenient date prior to the expiration of the time for filing the answer, cause such general notice to be issued to all persons interested as may be necessary fully to inform them of the purposes of this section and their rights with respect thereto.

Sec. 11. The trial of the case may occur at any convenient place within the province in which the lands are situated or at such other place as the court, for reasons stated in writing and filed with the record of case, may designate, and shall be conducted in the same manner as ordinary trials and proceedings in the Court of First Instance and shall be governed by the same rules. Orders of default and confession shall also be entered in the same manner as in ordinary cases in cases in the same court and shall have the same effect. All conflicting interests shall be adjudicated by the court and decrees awarded in favor of the persons entitled to the lands or the various parts thereof, and such decrees, when final, shall be the basis for original certificates of title in favor of said persons which shall have the same effect as certificates of title granted on application for registration of land under the Land Registration Act, and except as herein otherwise provided all of the provisions of said Land Registration Act, as now amended, and as it hereafter may be amended, shall be applicable to proceedings under this Act, and to the titles and certificates of title granted or issued hereunder.

Provided, however, That in deciding a cadastral case the court shall set aside from the cadastral proceedings all lots that have not been contested and shall award such lots to the claimants in a decision which shall become final thirty days after the rendition of the same, without prejudice to going on with the preceding as regards the contested lots. Every decision shall set forth the civil status of the respective claimant, the name of the spouse if married, the age if a minor, and if under disability, the nature of such disability. (,As amended by Sec. 1, Act No. 3080.)

Sec. 12. In case of the death of any judge, who may have begun the trial of an action brought under the provisions of this Act, before the termination of the trial or in case of his inability for any other reason to terminate such trial, the Secretary of Justice may designate another judge to complete the trial and to decide the case. Such other judge shall have the same power as the judge who began the trial to decide all questions arising in connection with the case and to decide the case upon the evidence appearing in the record.

Sec. 13. Whenever in an action brought under the provisions of this Act a new trial is ordered, the court shall specify the lot or lots with reference to which the new trial is ordered, and the case shall remain closed as to all other lots, if any, included in the action.

Sec. 14. In the event of an appeal to the Supreme Court from any decision or order of the Court of First Instance in an action brought under the provisions of this Act, only the lots claimed by the appellant shall be affected thereby. The decision of the Court of First Instance shall be final as to all remaining lots, if any, included in the action, and upon the expiration of the time for the filing of a bill of exceptions, final decree for such remaining lots may be entered and certificates of title therefor issued.

Sec. 15. Except as otherwise ordered by the court, a separate certificate of title shall be entered and a corresponding duplicate certificate issued for each separate parcel or holding of land included in the petition.

Sec. 16. After the entry of the final decree of registration of any lot, the designation of the lot by its cadastral number, or block and lot number as the case may be, together with the name of the municipality, township, or settlement and province in which the lot is situated, shall be a sufficient description of said lot for all purposes. The cadastral letter of a subdivision of a lot added to the cadastral number thereof shall, together with the name of the municipality, township, or settlement and province, be a sufficient description of each subdivision. In deeds of conveyance or other documents evidencing the transfer of title to lands, or creating encumbrances thereon, the cadastral numbers or the block and lot numbers, as the case may be, shall be written in words and figures.

Sec. 17. In all proceedings under this Act, the fees of the several registers of deeds for the making and entering of a certificate of title, including the issue of one duplicate certificate, and for the registration of the same, including the entering, indexing, filing, and attesting thereof, shall be as follows and no other fees shall be lawful:

When the value of property does not exceed fifty pesos, fifty centavos.

When the value of the property exceeds fifty pesos but does not exceed two hundred pesos, one peso.

When the value of the property exceeds two hundred pesos but does not exceed five hundred pesos, two pesos.

When the value of the property exceeds five hundred pesos, six pesos.

For the purposes of this section the value of the property shall be its last assessed value, or, in default thereof, its market value.

The fees authorized under this section shall be payable to the register upon the delivery of the titles to the owners thereof: Provided, however, That such fees may be payable to the provincial treasurer or his deputies when these deliver said titles by delegation to the register. (As amended by Sec. 1, Act No. 3080.)

Sec. 18. (a) One-tenth of the cost of registration proceedings and the cadastral survey and monumenting had under this Act shall be borne by the Insular Government; one-tenth shall be paid by the province concerned, and one-tenth by the city, municipality, municipal district, township, or settlement in which the land is situated, the City of Manila to be considered for this purpose, both as a province, and municipality; and the remaining seven-tenth shall be assessed and collected against each and all of the lots included in a cadastral proceeding and shall be apportioned in accordance with the square root of the area thereof, but in no case shall less than five-pesos be taxed against each lot: Provided, That when the province, a municipality, municipal district, township, or settlement has not sufficient funds to pay this obligation, its share may be paid in five equal installments within five years, without interest. The amount thus taxed against each of the lots or parcels of land shall be considered a special assessment of taxes against the respective parcels, shall constitute a first lien upon the land, and shall be collected by the Director of Lands or his duly authorized representatives in equal installments within a period of five years, bearing interest at the rate of six per centum per annum. The first installment shall become due and payable at the same time as the general land taxes for the year next succeeding the year in which the assessment of the costs shall be received by the provincial treasurer, and shall be collected in the same manner as such general land taxes. Each succeeding installment shall become due and payable at the same time as the general land taxes for the corresponding current year and shall be collected in the same manner. The Director of Lands shall for this purpose send to the officer in charge of such collection a copy of said assessment of costs: Provided, however, That the amounts representing the proportional shares of the costs taxed against lots surveyed at the request and expenses of their owner and for which a plan other than the cadastral plan has been made by a duly authorized surveyor prior to the decision in the cadastral proceeding, or which have been registered in accordance with the provisions of Act Numbered Four hundred and ninety-six, entitled. "The Land Registration Act" or surveyed, patented, or leased under the Public Land and Mining Laws, prior to the decision in the cadastral proceeding, or have been declared to be public land by the court, shall not constitute a lien against said lot nor shall be collected from the owners thereof: Provided, further, that the owner of any lot may, if he so desired, pay any installment of the costs taxed against his lot at any time before the same becomes due.

(b) In case of the sale, transfer, or conveyance, for a pecuniary consideration, of any property, or part thereof, registered by virtue of a decree issued in a cadastral proceeding, prior to the payment of the total amount of the costs taxed against such property in accordance with the preceding paragraph, endorsed as an encumbrance of lien upon each cadastral certificate of title, the vendor or his legal representatives shall pay such costs in their entirety in case the order apportioning the costs has already been issued in the cadastral proceeding in which the property being sold, transferred, or conveyed is included, and the register of deeds concerned shall demand of the vendor, before registering the deed for such sale, transfer, or conveyance of said property, that he exhibit a receipt signed by the Director of Lands or his duly authorized representative, showing that such encumbrance or lien has been paid: Provided, however, That in cases of sale, transfer, or conveyance of the property in. which the order apportioning the costs has not yet been issued, the register shall endorse on the certificate of transfer issued by him the encumbrance or lien appearing on the former certificate as guarantee of the payment of the costs above referred to.

(c) The costs of the registration proceedings under the provisions of this Act shall consist of a sum equivalent to ten per centum of the cost of the survey and monumenting of the land. The amount of the costs of the proceeding so taxes shall be for all services rendered by the General Land Registration Office and the clerk or his deputies in each cadastral proceeding, and the expense of publication, mailing, and posting notices, as well as the notices of the decision and the order apportioning the costs shall be borne by the General Land Registration Office.

(d) All amounts collected by the Director of Lands or his duly authorized representatives from the owners of the various lots as costs of proceedings, survey, and monumenting in accordance with this section, shall be covered into the Insular Treasury: Provided, however, That the various lots and owners thereof, and in such event the payments required to be made by said owners shall be made as herein provided and shall be covered into the provincial or municipal treasury as a part of the general funds of the province or municipality.

(e) Upon the collection of the amount of the cost of the registration proceedings, or part thereof, in each cadastral proceeding in accordance with this Section, the Commissioner of Land Registration shall forward to the Insular Auditor and the Insular Treasurer a statement of such collection, and the latter is hereby authorized and empowered to pay to the General Land Registration office a sum equal to the amount of said cost of proceedings collected, and the sums necessary to make such payments, are hereby appropriated, such sums to be credited to the appropriation for the General Land Registration Office for disbursement in other cadastral registration proceedings. (As amended by Sec. 2, Act No. 3081, and Secs. 3 and 5, Rep. Act No. 1151.)

Sec. 19. Whenever in proceedings under this Act the Court is of the opinion that the interests of justice require or the parties themselves petition that a partition be made of lands included in the petition and held by various persons in common or jointly, the court may order that partition be made and for that purpose may appoint two or more disinterested and judicious persons to be commissioners, commanding them to make partition of the lands and to get off to each of the parties in interest such part and proportion of the lands as the court shall order. By agreement between the co-owners or co-tenants of lands included in the petition, lands not so included but held by said co-owners or co-tenants in the same manner and by the same tenure may, with the approval of the court, be included in the same partition proceedings, and in such cases the court may order a survey to be made of such lands.

Sec. 20. Before making the partition, the commissioners shall take and subscribe an oath before any officer authorized to administer oaths, that they will faithfully perform their duties as such commissioners, which oath shall be filed in court with the proceedings in the case.

Sec. 21. Except as herein otherwise provided, the commissioners and the court in making the partition shall be governed by the provisions of sections one hundred and eighty-five, one hundred and eighty-six, one hundred and eighty-seven, one hundred and ninety, one hundred-and ninety-one of the Code of Civil Procedure and the commissioners shall receive such compensation as the court may determine, but not to exceed three, pesos per day for the time actually and necessarily employed in the performance of the duties.

Sec. 22. The order of the court effecting the partition shall state definitely, by adequate description, the particular portion of the estate which is apportioned to each party in interest and shall have the same force and effect as the final judgment in partition proceedings under the Code of Civil Procedure.

Sec. 23. The guardian of minors and persons of unsound mind shall represent them in the partition proceedings authorized by this Act. Where no guardian is appointed, or where he fails to appear, the court may appoint a guardian "ad litem" to represent the minors or persons of unsound mind in the proceedings. Such guardian or guardian "ad litem" may, on behalf of his ward, and with the approval of the court, do and perform any act, matter, or thing respecting the partition of the estate, including amicable partition thereof which such minor or person of unsound mind could do in the partition proceedings if he were of age or of sound mind.

Sec. 24. The proceedings in partitions authorized by this Act shall be regarded as a part of the land registration case in connection with which the partition is ordered, and no special fees shall be charged by the clerk of the court for any service performed by him in such partition proceedings, but the compensation of the commissioners appointed and additional expenses incurred in connection with the partition, including the costs of additional surveys, may be taxed as cost in the case and apportioned among the parties interested in the partition to such an extent and in such a manner as the court may deem just and equitable. Upon the order taxing and apportioning such costs becoming final, an execution may issue therefor as in partition proceedings under the Code of Civil Procedure unless the court directs that payment be made in installments as provided in section eighteen of this Act.

Sec. 25. If the property partitioned under the foregoing provisions constitutes the estate, or part of the estate, of a deceased person, which has not been settled by administration proceedings under the provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure, the heirs or devisees of such deceased person shall, for the full period of two years from the date of the order effecting the partition, be jointly liable to the creditors of the deceased for his debts: Provided, however, That no heir or devisee shall be liable for a greater amount than the value of the property received by him as his share in the estate: And Provided, further, That for the purpose of contribution between the heirs or devisees themselves, the amount of the debts of the estate for which each shall be liable shall bear the same proportion to the value of his share of the estate as the total amount of the legal debts paid by the heirs or devisees demanding contribution bears to the total value of the estate. Any heir or devisee who, under a final judgment rendered in an action brought under this section, pays more than his proportionate share of the debts of the estate shall, with reference to the excess, be subrogated to the rights of the creditors under such judgment against each of the other heirs or devisees to the extent of their respective proportionate shares of the debts so paid by him: Provided, further, That the provisions of this section shall not be construed to modify the provisions of existing law as to the order in which the heirs or devisees are liable to pay the debts of the deceased.

The judgment rendered in any action brought under this section by a creditor against the heirs or devisees of a deceased person shall, if favorable to the plaintiff, specify the maximum amount for which each heir or devisee shall be liable under such judgments.

Sec. 26. In the interpretation of the provisions of this Act, the rules of construction laid down by sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the Code of Civil Procedure and section 123 of the Land Registration Act shall apply. The word "court" as used in this Act shall mean the Court of First Instance.

Sec. 27. In the event that the Philippine Legislature shall pass an Act transferring to the Courts of First Instance the jurisdiction now conferred upon the Court of Land Registration, the word "court" used in this Act shall be construed to mean the respective Courts of First Instance and the word "clerk" to mean the Clerk of the respective Courts of First Instance, or the Chief of the General Land Registration Office if that office shall have been created and the powers and duties now performed by the clerk of the court of Land Registration transferred to that office. (Amended by Secs. 1, 2, 3 and 5, Rep. Act 1151.)

Sec. 28. The surveyors employed to make surveys for registration purposes, or to prepare maps and plats of property in connection therewith, shall give due notice in advance to the adjoining owners, whose, addresses are known, of the date and hour when they should present themselves on the property for the purpose of making such objections to the boundaries of the properties to be surveyed as they consider necessary for the protection of their rights. (As amended by Sec. 1859, Act No. 2711.)

Surveyors shall report all objections made by adjoining property owners and occupants or claimants of any portion of the lands at the time of the survey and demarcation, giving a proper description of the boundaries claimed by such owners, occupants or claimants. (As amended by Sec. 1859, Act No. 2711.)

Surveyors shall define the boundaries of the lands, surveyed for registration purposes, by means of monuments placed thereon and shall indicate on the maps or plats the respective boundaries as designated, both by the applicant for the survey and adverse claimants of adjoining properties; but the work of survey and demarcation of the boundaries of the lands as occupied by the said applicant need not be suspended because of the presentation of any complaint or objections. (As amended by Sec. 1860, Act No. 2711.)

If, in any registration proceeding involving such survey, the court shall find the boundary line designated by an adverse claimant to be incorrect and that designated by the applicant to be correct, the expense of making any extra survey over that required by the applicant shall be assessed by the court as cost against the adverse claimant. (As amended by Sec. 1861, Act. No. 2711)

Private surveyors employed in making survey as hereinabove contemplated shall be subject to the regulations of the Bureau of Lands in respect to such surveys and shall execute the same in accordance with current instructions relative thereto as issued by the Director of Lands. Promptly upon completing their work, it shall be their duty to send their original field notes, computations, reports, surveys, maps and plate of the property in question to the Bureau of Lands, for verification and approval. (As amended by Sec. 1862, Act No. 2711.)

Except as herein below provided, no private surveyor shall be qualified to make a survey to be used in registration proceedings unless he shall have passed either the appropriate civil service examination provided for surveyors or a special examination prepared by the Bureau of Lands for the purpose of determining his competency for such work. When so requested by the Director of Lands such special examination may be given under the supervision of the Bureau of Civil Service upon the dates and at the places of scheduled civil service examinations, the papers being returned to the Director of Lands for rating by him. (As amended by Sec. 1863, Enact Act No. 2711.)

Surveyors who have held the office of assistant in one of the technical corps of engineers of public works, forests, mines, and agronomist during the Spanish Government and surveyors holding an academic diploma issued by a duly authorized and recognized university, college of school who furnished satisfactory proof to the Director of Lands that they have practiced surveying in the Philippine Islands prior to June First, nineteen hundred and nine, shall be exempted from the examination hereinabove required, excepting those who, having taken the said examination, failed to obtain a rating of fifty per centum therein. "Surveyors, holding an academic diplomas," as herein used, shall include all those who with similar diplomas under the Spanish Government, were considered as surveyors or as entitled to practice to said profession in the Philippine Islands. (As amended by Sec. 1863, Act No. 2711.)

A private surveyor possessing the prescribed qualifications shall, upon application to the Director of Lands, be given a certificate authorizing him to make surveys as contemplated in this article; and without such certificate no private surveyor shall make any survey for Land registration purposes. (As amended by Sec. 1864, Act No. 2711.)

When the Director of Lands shall find that any certified private surveyor submits any plan or survey made by him which is defective, incorrect and substantially erroneous, owning to incompetency, inexperience, bad faith, or inexcusable negligence; or fails to forward within a reasonable length of time to the Bureau of Lands for verification any surveys work contracted by him to the prejudice and detriment of the clients; or that he is guilty of any fraud, deceit, malpractice, or misconduct in the exercise of his profession or of disregarding the instruction, rules and regulations issued by the said Bureau concerning the survey in preparation of his plans, the said Director may, after due investigation, suspend or cancel the certificate of such surveyor; but the latter may, within thirty days after receiving notice of such action, take and appeal to a committee composed of the Department Head, the Judge of the fourth branch of the Court of First Instance for the Ninth Judicial District, and duly authorized surveyor appointed by the Governor-General. Pending appeal the right of the surveyor shall be suspended, and the action of said committee shall be final. (Sec. 1865, Rev. Adm. Code, as amended by Sec. 1, Act No. 3092.)

Sec. 29. The short title of this Act shall be "The Cadastral Act."

Sec. 30. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, February 11, 1913

chan robles virtual law library
� � Back to Main





Since 19.07.98.
























chanrobles.com





ChanRobles On-Line Bar Review

ChanRobles Internet Bar Review : www.chanroblesbar.com

ChanRobles MCLE On-line

ChanRobles Lawnet Inc. - ChanRobles MCLE On-line : www.chanroblesmcleonline.com


ACT NOS. 2251 - 3468                  

  • Act No. 2251

  • Act No. 2255

  • Act No. 2257

  • Act No. 2258

  • Act No. 2259

  • Act No. 2297

  • Act No. 2324

  • Act No. 2336

  • Act No. 2339

  • Act No. 2360

  • Act No. 2363

  • Act No. 2373

  • Act No. 2379

  • Act No. 2381

  • Act No. 2396

  • Act No. 2408

  • Act No. 2427

  • Act No. 2432

  • Act No. 2550

  • Act No. 2573

  • Act No. 2581

  • Act No. 2590

  • Act No. 2616

  • Act No. 2655

  • Act No. 2711

  • Act No. 2712

  • Act No. 2713

  • Act No. 2719

  • Act No. 2721

  • Act No. 2722

  • Act No. 2806

  • Act No. 2812

  • Act No. 2874

  • Act No. 2932

  • Act No. 3038

  • Act No. 3077

  • Act No. 3083

  • Act No. 3110

  • Act No. 3118

  • Act No. 3135

  • Act No. 3146

  • Act No. 3247

  • Act No. 3326

  • Act No. 3327

  • Act No. 3379

  • Act No. 3393

  • Act No. 3424

  • Act No. 3428

  • Act No. 3465

  • Act No. 3468