_An act decreeing that the attorney for minors shall not bring a suit,
without first communicating it to the judge for minors._

In the city of Manila, on the seventh of January, one thousand five
hundred and ninety-nine, the president and auditors of the royal
Audiencia of the Philipinas Islands declared that, whereas in this
court there are many minors, whose goods and property are in the
charge of their guardians, who might spend and dissipate the said
goods beyond the use and profit of the said minors, which would be to
their great injury: therefore, because by the attorney and defender
of the said minors entering any suits and petitions with regard to
the aforesaid minors without giving notice thereof, or communicating
with the judge for minors, many inconveniences may result, as a remedy
for this, they resolved and ordered that the said attorney for minors
shall bring no suit for a minor against his guardian, without first
communicating it to the judge who sits or shall sit for minors, that
the latter may order what he deems advisable. By this act it was so
ordered, ordained, and decreed.


_Don Francisco Tello_
_Doctor Antonio de Morga_
The licentiate _Tellez Almaçan_
The licentiate _Albaro Çambrano_


Before me: _Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_