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Act No. 496 Section 14

Act No. 496 Section 14

Section 14

SEC. 14. Every order, decision, and decree of the Court of Land Registration shall he subject to appeal to the Court of First Instance of the city or province where the land lies, concerning which the order, decision, or decree appealed from was made; but the proceeding shall not pass to the Court, of First Instance for review upon the appeal until final determination by the Court of Land Registration of the whole proceeding in which the order, decision, or decree appealed from was made. The appeal shall be made and entered within thirty days from the date of the final order, decision, or decree, and the parry, appealing shall, at the time of entering his appeal, file in the Court of First Instance copies of all material papers in the case certified by the clerk. Appearances and answers shall be filed in the Court of First Instance within thirty days after the appeal is entered, unless for good cause further time is allowed, and upon motion of either party the case shall be advanced for speedy hearing, and shall he tried by the Court of First Instance as other actions are tried in that court. All competent testimony which has been taken in writing before the Court of Land Registration may be used the trial in the Court of First Instance. Questions of law arising in the Court of First Instance on trial of the appeal may he taken to the Supreme Court foil revisions by any party aggrieved, in the same manner as in ordinary actions in the Court of First Instance. Whenever the facts before the Court of Land Registration shall not be in dispute, but a pure question of law only is determinative, of the decision or decree to be made, that court may, after its decision or decree therein, report such decision or decree directly for the consideration of the Supreme Court with so much of the case as may be necessary for the understanding of such questions of law, without transmitting the same to the Court of First Instance. But the procedure last provided shall not be made in any case where any party desires an appeal to the Court of First Instance.

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CitationAct No. 496 Section 14 (LawPlayer, data as of July 4, 2026)

Source: Supreme Court E-Library, Republic of the Philippines. Philippine laws are public documents (works of the government).

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