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AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION TWENTY-ONE OF ACT NUMBERED ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY, KNOWN AS THE CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, DECLARING THAT THE PRACTICE OF SOLICITING CASES AT LAW FOR THE PURPOSE OF GAIN, EITHER PERSONALLY OR THROUGH AGENTS, CONSTITUTE MALPRACTICE.

Number
Act No. 2828
Date of approval
Sections
2
Section 1

SECTION 1. Section twenty-one of Act Numbered One hundred and ninety, known as the Code of Civil Procedure, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 21. Disbarments.—A member of the bar may be removed or suspended from his office as lawyer by the Supreme Court for any deceit, malpractice or other gross misconduct in such office, or by reason of his conviction of a crime involving moral turpitude, or for any violation of either of the oaths aforesaid, or for the wilful disobedience of any lawful order of the Supreme Court or Courts of First Instance, or for corruptly or willfully appearing as a lawyer for a party to an action or proceeding without authority so to do. The practice of soliciting cases at law for the purpose of gain, either personally or through paid agents or brokers, constitutes malpractice."

Section 2

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, March 5, 1919.

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AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION TWENTY-ONE OF ACT NUMBERED ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY, KNOWN AS THE CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, DECLARING THAT THE PRACTICE OF SOLICITING CASES AT LAW FOR THE PURPOSE OF GAIN, EITHER PERSONALLY OR THROUGH AGENTS, CONSTITUTE MALPRACTICE. (Official Gazette). Retrieved via LawPlayer, https://lawplayer.com/ph/act/act-2828

Source: Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines — Philippine laws are public documents (works of the government).

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