The legal system of Puerto Rico is a mix of the civil law and the common law systems.
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👉 Puerto Rican law in the context of Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
The Supreme Court of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Tribunal Supremo de Puerto Rico) is the highest court of Puerto Rico, having judicial authority to interpret and decide questions of Puerto Rican law. The Court is analogous to one of the state supreme courts of the states of the United States and is the highest state court and the court of last resort in Puerto Rico. Article V of the Constitution of Puerto Rico vests the judicial power in the Supreme Court, which by nature forms the judicial branch of the government of Puerto Rico. The seat of the Supreme Court is the Supreme Court Building in San Juan Islet in the capital municipality of San Juan.
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Puerto Rican law in the context of Autonomous Municipalities Act of 1991
Law No. 81 of 1991, officially known as the Autonomous Municipalities Act of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico of 1991, was the extraconstitutional Puerto Rican law that regulated the local government of all the municipalities of Puerto Rico until 2020, when it was superseded by the Municipal Code of Puerto Rico. It was enacted in order to repeal many different and dispersed laws that governed them. Today, the Act served as a broad and encompassing body of law that covered all the different aspects of a municipality, including its mayor, the mayor's office, and the municipal assemblies.