Section 10
SEC. 10. Of the jurisdiction of the Court of First Instance over cases involving adjudication of registration of lands.—Saving the provisions of this Act, all jurisdiction and powers heretofore conferred by Act Numbered Four hundred and ninety-six and its amendments upon the Court of Land Registration and upon the land registration judges, are hereby conferred upon the Courts of First Instance and judges thereof, of the provinces in which the land which is to be registered is situate. In the dispatch of registration cases, the rules and provisions contained in Act Numbered Four hundred and ninety-six, the Land Registration Act, as amended, shall be applied, unless otherwise provided by this Act. In all matters of procedure not provided in said Act, the rules and provisions contained in the Code of Procedure in civil actions and special proceedings shall be applied in so far as the same may be applicable.