Tribunal de Cassació (
Catalan
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for ''Court of Cassation'') was the
Generalitat of Catalonia
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's judicial organization during the
Second Spanish Republic
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, founded in 1934, established according to the
Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 1932
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.
It had jurisdiction in matters of
administrative
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and
civil law. Catalan was the main language of the Court.
Its first President was
Santiago Gubern i Fàbregas (
Barcelona
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, 1875 - 1960). On September 1936, after the outbreak of
Spanish Civil War
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,
Josep Andreu i Abelló Josep is a Catalan masculine given name equivalent to Joseph (Spanish ''José'').
People named Josep include:
* Josep Bargalló (born 1958), Catalan philologist and former politician
* Josep Bartolí (1910-1995), Catalan painter, cartoonist and w ...
(
Montblanc, 1906 -
Madrid
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, 1993) was appointed president of the Court of Cassation.
In 1939, once
Catalonia
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Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the north ...
was occupied by the army of
general Franco
Francisco Franco Bahamonde (; 4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish general who led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and thereafter ruled over Spain from 193 ...
during the last stages of the Civil War, its regime abolished the Court of Cassation and all of its Court judgments were declared without legal effect until 1984, five years after the restoration of Catalan self-government.
References
Bibliography
* Roca i Trias, Encarna
''El tribunal de Cassació de la Generalitat republicana: La història d'una tradició prohibida'' 2009, 18 pages from a conference (in Catalan)
Politics of Catalonia
Courts in Spain
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