P.R. Laws tit. 4A, § 10
The presiding judge may affirm, modify or reverse the judgment appealed, remand the case for further proceedings or, in the pertinent case, enter the judgment that the District Court should have entered.
Any party aggrieved by a judgment rendered on appeal may, pursuant to the Rules of Civil Procedure, App. III of Title 32, and the Rules of Criminal Procedure, App. II of Title 34, as the case may be, file in the part of the Court of First Instance where it was entered a motion for reconsideration of the judgment, stating therein the grounds for its request.
Once the term to move for reconsideration expires, or five (5) days after notice is filed in the record of an order deciding a motion for reconsideration, if one was filed, the Clerk of the Court of First Instance shall return the original record to the part of the Distict Court from where it came, together with a certified copy of the judgment on appeal, which shall constitute the mandate on appeal. Any further steps for the execution of the judgment shall be taken in said Court.
History —June 7, 1979, eff. Oct. 1, 1979.