There is hereby conferred upon the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico exclusive original jurisdiction to take cognizance of all quo warranto proceedings or any other pertinent proceedings that the Government of Puerto Rico may hereafter institute for violation of the provisions of § 752, Title 48, United States Code, and of the Land Law of Puerto Rico of 1941 in the matter of the holding of lands, and for that purpose it is provided that the violation of said provisions by any [juridical] person, as the term [juridical] person was defined by § 401 of this title, shall constitute sufficient cause to institute a proceeding of the nature of quo warranto or any other pertinent proceeding.
History —July 22, 1935, No. 33, p. 418, § 1; May 9, 1942, No. 172, p. 892, § 2, eff. 90 days after May 9, 1942.