Act No. 294 Section 1

Section 1

SECTION 1. The Government of the Philippine Islands and that of any province or department thereof, and of any municipality, shall have the right to condemn private personal property and property that is partly personal and partly real, for public use, and shall exercise that right substantially in the manner provided in sections two hundred and forty-one and two hundred and fifty-three, inclusive, of Act Numbered One hundred and ninety, entitled "An Act providing a Code of Procedure in Civil Actions and Special Proceedings in the Philippine Islands," which sections relate; to the exercise of the right of eminent domain in relation to real estate.

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