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Of the vacations and leaves of absence of the judiciary.
SEC. 22. Of the vacations and leaves of absence of the judiciary.—All district and auxiliary judges of Courts of First Instance shall be entitled to the leaves of absence provided for by existing law in the premises.
Of the rules of the Court of First Instance.
SEC. 23. Of the rules of the Court of First Instance.—The Supreme Court shall, for the purposes of this Act, issue additional rules as well for the operation of courts where there are two or more judges, as for the dispatch of the land registration cases imposed upon the judges of Courts of First Instance, or shall, if they deem it necessary, issue new general rules for the Courts of First Instance.
Transitory provisions.
SEC. 24. Transitory provisions.—All criminal or civil cases and all judicial proceedings of a like nature pending decision or sentence or pending continuance of the evidence in the present Courts of First Instance at the time when this Act takes effect, shall remain under the jurisdiction of said courts until their final decision, and all civil or criminal cases and all judicial proceedings of a like nature that have been filed or initiated, and are pending trial or a hearing in said courts shall be transferred to their successors for trial and sentence and all pending decision or decree, or continuance of the evidence in the Court of Land Registration at the date on which this Act takes effect, shall continue until their final decision under the jurisdiction of the judges of said court to whom such cases were assigned, and all cases filed or begun, but pending trial or a hearing in the Court of Land Registration, shall be transferred to the judges of the Court of First Instance of the provinces where said lands made the object of said cases are situate.
SEC. 25. The Secretary of Finance and Justice shall in so far as possible assign to the Courts of First Instance organized under this Act the present officers and employees of the Courts of First Instance and the Court of Land Registration, with the same salary that they had on the date on which this Act takes effect. This provision shall not be a bar to positions found to be unnecessary being declared vacant.
SEC. 26. Act Numbered Four hundred and ninety-six, as amended, is hereby amended as follows: (a) By substituting for the words "Court of Land Registration" appearing in said Act or its amendments, the words for ."Court of Land "Court of First Instance." (b) By amending Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and No- 1484 amended-eighty-four amendatory to section fourteen of Act Numbered Four hundred and ninety-six, as amended by section four of Act Numbered Eleven hundred and eight, so that said section one of said Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and eighty-four shall read as follows: "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 appeals and bills of exceptions against the final judgment in land registration cases shall b e thirty days, counting from the date on which the party received a copy of the decision.' "
SEC. 27. Section one hundred and forty-five of Act Numbered One hundred and ninety is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 145. New trial—Within thirty days after notice of a decision rendered by a Court of First Instance, the judge thereof may at the petition of the party aggrieved, and after due notice to the adverse party, set aside the judgment and grant a new trial, provided the petition is based on any of the following causes materially affecting the legitimate rights of the petitioner: "1. Accident or surprise which ordinary prudence could in4ceddent not have guarded against and by reason of which the party applying has probably been impaired in his rights. "2. Newly discovered evidence, material to the party making the application, which he could not, with reasonable diligence, have discovered and produced at the trial. "3. Because the judge has become satisfied that excessive damages have been awarded, or that the evidence was insufficient to justify the decision, or that it is against the law."
SEC. 28. Acts Numbered Six hundred and twenty-seven, Six hundred and forty-eight, Eleven hundred and eight, Eleven hundred and thirty-eight and Twenty-two hundred and fifty-nine are hereby amended by— (a) Substituting for the words "judge of the Court of Land Registration," wherever said words appear, the words "judge of the proper Court of First Instance." (b) Substituting for the words "Court of Land Registration" wherever said words appear, the words "proper Court of First Instance."
SEC. 29. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with this Act or incompatible with the provisions thereof are hereby repealed.
SEC. 39. This Act shall take effect on July first, nineteen hundred and fourteen. Enacted, February 28, 1914.
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