Section 32.

Review of decree of registration;

Innocent purchaser for value. The decree of
registration shall not be reopened or revised by
reason of absence, minority, or other disability of
any person adversely affected thereby, nor by
any proceeding in any court for reversing
judgments, subject, however, to the right of any
person, including the government and the
branches thereof, deprived of land or of any
estate or interest therein by such adjudication or
confirmation of title obtained by actual fraud, to
file in the proper Court of First Instance a petition
for reopening and review of the decree of
registration not later than one year from and after
the date of the entry of such decree of
registration, but in no case shall such petition be
entertained by the court where an innocent
purchaser for value has acquired the land or an
interest therein, whose rights may be prejudiced.
Whenever the phrase "innocent purchaser for
value" or an equivalent phrase occurs in this
Decree, it shall be deemed to include an innocent
lessee, mortgagee, or other encumbrancer for
value.
Upon the expiration of said period of one year,
the decree of registration and the certificate of
title issued shall become incontrovertible. Any
person aggrieved by such decree of registration
in any case may pursue his remedy by action for
damages against the applicant or any other
persons responsible for the fraud.
Section 33. Appeal from judgment, etc. The
judgment and orders of the court hearing the land
registration case are appealable to the Court of
Appeals or to the Supreme Court in the same
manner as in ordinary actions:
Section 34. Rules of procedure. The Rules of
Court shall, insofar as not inconsistent with the
provision of this Decree, be applicable to land
registration and cadastral cases by analogy or in
a suppletory character and whenever practicable
and convenient.
Section 35. Cadastral Survey preparatory to
filing of petition.
(a) When in the opinion of the President of the
Philippines public interest so requires that title to
any unregistered lands be settled and
adjudicated, he may to this end direct and order
the Director of Lands to cause to be made a
cadastral survey of the lands involved and the

plans and technical description thereof prepared

in due form.
(b) Thereupon, the Director of Lands shall give
notice to persons claiming any interest in the
lands as well as to the general public, of the day
on which such survey will begin, giving as fully
and accurately as possible the description of the
lands to be surveyed. Such notice shall be
punished once in the Official Gazette, and a copy
of the notice in English or the national language
shall be posted in a conspicuous place on the
bulletin board of the municipal building of the
municipality in which the lands or any portion
thereof is situated. A copy of the notice shall also
be sent to the mayor of such municipality as well
as to the barangay captain and likewise to the
Sangguniang Panlalawigan and the Sangguniang
Bayan concerned.
(c) The Geodetic Engineers or other employees
of the Bureau of Lands in charge of the survey
shall give notice reasonably in advance of the
date on which the survey of any portion of such
lands is to begin, which notice shall be posted in
the bulletin board of the municipal building of the
municipality or barrio in which the lands are
situated, and shall mark the boundaries of the
lands by monuments set up in proper places
thereon. It shall be lawful for such Geodetic
Engineers and other employees to enter upon
the lands whenever necessary for the purposes
of such survey or the placing of monuments.
(d) It shall be the duty of every person claiming
an interest in the lands to be surveyed, or in any
parcel thereof, to communicate with the Geodetic
Engineer upon his request therefor all information
possessed by such person concerning the
boundary lines of any lands to which he claims
title or in which he claims any interest.
(e) Any person who shall willfully obstruct the
making of any survey undertaken by the Bureau
of Lands or by a licensed Geodetic Engineer duly
authorized to conduct the survey under this
Section, or shall maliciously interfere with the
placing of any monument or remove such
monument, or shall destroy or remove any notice
of survey posted on the land pursuant to law,
shall be punished by a fine of not more than one
thousand pesos or by imprisonment for not more
than one year, or both.