Abolition of existing Supreme Court.
Section 39
SEC. 39. Abolition of existing Supreme Court.—The existing Audiencia or Supreme Court is hereby abolished, and the Supreme Court provided by this Act is substituted in place thereof.
Act No. 136 Section 39
Other provisions in CHAPTER II.
- Section 29: Assignment of Supreme Court judges to sit in Courts, of First Instance.
- Section 30: Reporter of decisions.
- Section 31: Reporter a ministerial officer.
- Section 32: What cases reported, and how reported.
- Section 33: In what language cases reported.
- Section 34: Volumes, how indexed, bound, and so forth.
- Section 35: Contract for printing report.
- Section 36: Disposition of reports.
- Section 37: Custody of original opinions.
- Section 38
CitationAct No. 136 Section 39 (LawPlayer, data as of July 4, 2026)
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