Reports of cases adjudged in the Supreme Court of Porto Rico: Vol. 3-100, San Juan, 1900-, various government publishers, and 1965-1975, Vermont,
Equity Publishing. The first two volumes of this series were published in a Spanish language edition only and are provided in Decisiones de Puerto Rico
{Sp. Lang. Ed.}, see elsewhere on this site. The English language version ceased with Vol. 100 for cases heard through 31 Dec. 1972. From the
establishment of a civil law regime in the territory in 1900, Puerto Rico had a functioning territorial court system quite distinct from its U.S. Federal
District Court {for the decisions of which see elsewhere on this site}. The territorial system was comprised of a single court, the General Court of
Justice, which had two branches, a Court of First Instance and a Supreme Court. The Court of First Instance in turn consisted of three divisions: the
Superior Court, the District Court, and the Municipal Court. The territorial court system was related to the Federal District Court in a manner analogous
to that of the U.S. district courts in the U.S. states. Thus, under normal circumstances, the only direct appeal from the Puerto Rico territorial
Supreme Court was directly to the U.S. Supreme Court. Puerto Rico has a Civil Law system, but the Anglo-American legal system has influenced its
constitutional, criminal, administrative and corporate law and its rules of evidence and civil procedure.)
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