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CHAPTER IV
GENERAL PROVISIONS

Section 39. Appeals. The period for appeal from final orders, resolutions, awards, judgments, or
decisions of any court in all cases shall be fifteen (15) days counted from the notice of the final order,
resolution, award, judgment, or decision appealed from: Provided however, That in habeas corpus cases,
the period for appeal shall be forty-eight (48) hours from the notice of the judgment appealed from.

No record on appeal shall be required to take an appeal. In lieu thereof, the entire record shall be
transmitted with all the pages prominently numbered consecutively, together with an index of the contents
thereof.

This section shall not apply in appeals in special proceedings and in other cases wherein multiple appeals
are allowed under applicable provisions of the Rules of Court.

Section 40. Form of decision in appealed cases. Every decision of final resolution of a court in
appealed cases shall clearly and distinctly state the findings of fact and the conclusions of law on which it
is based, which may be contained in the decision or final resolution itself, or adopted by reference from
those set forth in the decision, order, or resolution appealed from.

Section 48. Date of Effectivity. This Act shall take effect immediately.

Approved: August 14, 1981

Footnotes

*Other provisions of the Act:

"Section. 5. After five(5) years from the effectivity of this Act, the jurisdictional amounts mentioned
in Sec. 19(3), (4), and (8); and Sec. 33(1) of Batas Pambansa Blg. 129 as amended by this Act,
shall be adjusted to Two hundred thousand pesos (P200,000.00). five (5) years thereafter, such
jurisdictional amounts shall be adjusted further to Three hundred thousand pesos
(P300,000.00): Provided, however, That in the case of Metro Manila, the abovementioned
jurisdictional amounts shall be adjusted after five (5) years from the effectivity of this Act of Four
hundred thousand pesos (P400,000.00).

Section. 7. The provisions of this Act shall apply to all civil cases that have not yet reached the
pre-trial stage. However, by agreement of all the parties, civil cases cognizable by municipal and
metropolitan courts by the provisions of this Act may be transferred from the Regional Trial
Courts to the latter. The executive judge of the appropriate Regional Trial Court shall define the
administrative procedure of transferring the cases affected by the redefinition of jurisdiction to the
Metropolitan Trial Courts, Municipal Trial Court, and Municipal Circuit Trial Court."

*Criminal cases falling within the jurisdiction of Family Courts (established by the Family Courts
Act of 1997 [R.A. No. 8369]) have been transferred from Metropolitan trial Courts, Municipal Trial
Courts,

Municipal trial Court in Cities, Municipal Trial Courts and Municipal Circuit Trial Courts to
Regional trial Courts under A.M. No. 99-1-13-SC effective March 1, 1999.