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[ Act No. 3194, November 29, 1924 ]

AN ACT EMPOWERING JUSTICES OF THE PEACE TO APPOINT GUARDIANS "AD LITEM" FOR INCAPACITATED LITIGANTS

Be it enacted by the Senate and House  of Representatives of the Philippines in Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:

SECTION 1.  Justices of the peace in the regularly organized municipalities as well as in the municipal districts and townships  are hereby empowered  to  appoint guardian or guardians ad litem for litigants in their courts who are incapacitated by being of minor age or mentally incapable.

SEC. 2.  All acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 3.  This Act  shall take  effect on  its approval.

Approved, November 29, 1924.
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