Transitory provisions.
Section 24
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.