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Republic Act No. 7691

Also: RA 7691 — the standard short form, RA 7691 of 1994 — the year-qualified citation form, The 1994 jurisdictional-amount act — the practitioner's shorthand in the peso-line series

Republic Act No. 7691 — formally "An Act Expanding the Jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Trial Courts, Municipal Trial Courts, and Municipal Circuit Trial Courts, Amending…

Executive Order No. 864

Also: EO 864, The completion declaration of the judiciary reorganization, Executive Order No. 864, s. 1983

Executive Order No. 864 (January 17, 1983) is the presidential instrument by which President Ferdinand E. Marcos "declare[d] the completion of the reorganization of the…

Also: RA 3452, An Act to Adopt a Program to Stabilize the Price of Palay, Rice and Corn, to Provide Incentives for Production, and to Create a Rice and Corn Administration to Implement the Same, and to Provide Funds Therefor — the long title, The rice and corn price-stabilization act of 1962 — the descriptive styling

Republic Act No. 3452 — long title "An Act to Adopt a Program to Stabilize the Price of Palay, Rice and Corn, to Provide Incentives…

Estipona v. Lobrigo

Also: Estipona — the short citation, Estipona, Jr. v. Hon. Lobrigo — the caption's fuller styling, The drug plea-bargaining case — its working description in practice

Estipona v. Lobrigo — in full Salvador Estipona, Jr. y Asuela v. Hon. Frank E. Lobrigo, Presiding Judge of the RTC, Branch 3, Legazpi City,…

Juvenile and Domestic Relations Courts

Also: JDRC, Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court — the singular styling each local act used, The Manila juvenile court — the 1955 founding court's common description

The Juvenile and Domestic Relations Courts (JDRCs) were the Philippines' special courts for children and the family — created not by one national statute but…

Circuit Criminal Courts

Also: CCI — the standard abbreviation, Circuit Criminal Court — the singular styling used for each individual court, RA 5179 courts — the statute-based name

The Circuit Criminal Courts were the Philippines' experiment in specialized criminal adjudication: special courts created by Republic Act No. 5179 — "AN ACT CREATING CIRCUIT…

Rule of Procedure for Small Claims Cases

Also: A.M. No. 08-8-7-SC — the docket-style short form, The small claims rule — the practitioners' name, The Revised Rules of Procedure for Small Claims Cases — the 2016 revision's own Sec. 1 title

The Rule of Procedure for Small Claims Cases (A.M. No. 08-8-7-SC) is the Philippine Supreme Court's special procedure for the speedy, inexpensive, and lawyer-free litigation…

In re Yamashita

Also: Yamashita v. Styer — the paired caption in the reports, Application of Yamashita — the original-application style, The Yamashita case

In re Yamashita — the decision of the United States Supreme Court styled in the reports as Application of Yamashita; Yamashita v. Styer, Commanding General,…

Tatad v. Secretary of the Department of Energy

Also: Tatad v. Secretary of the Department of Energy, The Tatad case, The oil deregulation case — the styling of Philippine constitutional-law teaching

Tatad v. Secretary of the Department of Energy, G.R. No. 124360 (November 5, 1997), is the Supreme Court's En Banc decision striking down Republic Act…

Bankers Association of the Philippines

Also: BAP, The Bankers Association — the styling common in Philippine financial reporting, The Association — the styling in its own corporate communications

The Bankers Association of the Philippines (BAP) is the trade association of the Philippine banking industry's top tier — "a non-stock, not for profit organization…

Churrigueresque

Also: Churrigueresco — the Spanish form, Ultra Baroque — "also but less commonly," per the style article of record, Mexican Churrigueresque — the New Spain development of the mid-eighteenth century

Churrigueresque (Spanish Churrigueresco; also, less commonly, "Ultra Baroque") is the Spanish Baroque style of elaborate sculptural architectural ornament that "emerged as a manner of stucco…

Intermediate Appellate Court

Also: IAC, Intermediate Appellate Court of the Philippines, The Intermediate Appellate Court under Batas Pambansa Blg. 129

The Intermediate Appellate Court (IAC) was the Philippines' intermediate appellate tribunal under Batas Pambansa Blg. 129 — the name and structure the Judiciary Reorganization Act…

Baroque Architecture in the Philippines

Also: Filipino Baroque — the styling the architectural record applies to Paoay, "this unique specimen of Filipino architecture called Filipino Baroque from the Spanish era", Philippine Baroque — the descriptive equivalent, Spanish colonial baroque of the Philippines — the period styling

Baroque Architecture in the Philippines is the survey term for the body of church architecture built in the archipelago under Spanish rule from the late…

Judiciary Act of 1948

Also: Republic Act No. 296, RA 296, The Judiciary Act — the era's shorthand, distinguishing it from Act No. 136, "the Judiciary Act of 1901"

The Judiciary Act of 1948 is Republic Act No. 296, a statute of one hundred and one sections approved June 17, 1948 and by its…

Batas Pambansa Blg. 129

Also: The Judiciary Reorganization Act of 1980 — the Section 1 short title, BP 129 — the standard abbreviation of the era's practice, BP Blg. 129

Batas Pambansa Blg. 129, by its own Section 1 "The Judiciary Reorganization Act of 1980," is the statute — long title "AN ACT REORGANIZING THE…

Rice and Corn Board

Also: RACB — the abbreviation of the Board's own name, RICOB — the styling carried in the National Food Authority's record, The Board — RA 3018's own in-text designation

The Rice and Corn Board (RACB, styled RICOB in its successor's record) was the Philippine regulatory board created by Section 5 of Republic Act No.…

MV Doña Marilyn

Also: Doña Marilyn — the styling of the vessel's name in Philippine reporting, Otohime Maru — her original name in Japanese service, 1966–1976, Doña Ana — her first Sulpicio Lines name, 1976–1978

The MV Doña Marilyn was a Philippine-registered passenger ferry operated by Sulpicio Lines — built in Japan in 1966 as the Otohime Maru for RKK…

Katipunan ng mga Anak-Pawis sa Pilipinas

Also: KAP — the standard abbreviation of the era's record, Proletarian Labor Congress of the Philippines — the English rendering carried in the federation's article, Katipunan ng mga Anakpawis sa Pilipinas — the unhyphenated styling used in the party record

The Katipunan ng mga Anak-Pawis sa Pilipinas (KAP; English "Proletarian Labor Congress of the Philippines") was a Philippine national labor federation — recorded as "the…

Court of First Instance

Also: Courts of First Instance, CFI — the standard abbreviation of the era's decisions and pleadings, Courts of First Instance — the statutory plural, as in Act No. 136 and Batas Pambansa Blg. 129's transitory provision

The Court of First Instance (CFI; Filipino Hukumang Unang Dulugan; Spanish-style Tribunal de Primera Instancia) was the general-jurisdiction trial court of the Philippines from the…

Certiorari under Rule 65

Also: Petition for certiorari — the pleading's name in the Rule, Special civil action for certiorari — the docket classification, Rule 65 petition — the practitioners' shorthand

Certiorari under Rule 65 is the extraordinary remedial writ of Philippine procedure — the special civil action by which a person aggrieved asks a superior…

David v. Senate Electoral Tribunal

Also: David v. Poe — the SET-case styling used in the standard reference article, G.R. No. 221538 — the Supreme Court docket, The Poe foundling quo warranto — the descriptive styling

David v. Senate Electoral Tribunal (G.R. No. 221538, September 20, 2016) is a decision of the Supreme Court of the Philippines en banc, penned by…

José de los Reyes

Also: Jose Delos Reyes — the birth-name spelling carried by his Wikidata record, Major General Jose de los Reyes, General Jose de los Reyes

José de los Reyes (born Jose Delos Reyes; August 19, 1874, Bulakan, Bulacan – February 7, 1945, Manila) was a Philippine Constabulary and Philippine Army…

Land Tenure Administration

Also: LTA — the standard abbreviation of the land-reform literature, The Administration — RA 1400's own shorthand throughout the statute, Successor of the Division of Landed Estates — the lineage styling

The Land Tenure Administration (LTA) was the Philippine government agency created by Republic Act No. 1400, the Land Reform Act of 1955, approved September 9,…

Tomás Cabili

Also: Tomás Lluisma Cabili — full name, Tomas Cabili — the unaccented article-title spelling, Sultan Dimasangkay-ko-Ranao — the Maranao honorific

Tomás Cabili — in full Tomás Lluisma Cabili (March 7, 1903, Iligan, Misamis – March 17, 1957, Balamban, Cebu), known to the Maranao as Sultan…

Mateo del Castillo

Also: Mateo del Castillo of the AMT — reference form in the peasant-movement literature, Chairman of the Organizational Department of the Central Luzon Bureau — organizational designation, 1942, Popular Front senatorial candidate of 1941 — electoral designation

Mateo del Castillo was a Filipino peasant-movement leader of the 1930s — the Pampanga organizer remembered in the record of the Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas…

Carlos Palanca Sr.

Also: Tan Geng Lay — the Chinese birth name, Tan Guin Lay — Pe̍h-ōe-jī romanization carried in the standard account, Tan Quin Lay — recorded misspelling of the Chinese name

Carlos Palanca Sr. (born Tan Geng Lay — Chinese: 陳迎來, Pe̍h-ōe-jī Tân Gêng-lâi, often romanized Tan Guin Lay; September 1, 1869, Amoy [Xiamen], Fujian, Qing…

Guillermo Capadocia

Also: Guillermo Capadocia of the PKP — reference form in the labor-movement literature, General secretary of the merged Communist Party — organizational designation from November 7, 1938, Vice president of the Congress of Labor Organizations — organizational designation, 1945

Guillermo Capadocia (born c. 1909 in Negros Oriental — died September 28, 1951, San Remigio, Antique) was a Filipino labor leader and communist politician —…

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