served or executed by the sheriff of the city of Manila or of the province where the Supreme Court may be in session or  by any officer having authority to execute the writs, processes, or orders of a Court of First Instance. [136-25; 1546-1.] SECTION  167 . Form of Decisions  —  When Opinion to be Reported.  — When a decision is rendered by the Supreme Court a written opinion or memorandum exemplifying the ground and scope of the judgment of the court shall be filed with the clerk of the court and s hall be by him recorded in an opinion book. When the court shall deem a decision to be of sufficient importance to require publication, the clerk shall furnish a certified copy to the reporter. Dissenting opinions shall be published when the judges writing  such opinions shall so direct. cTECIA [136-37; 1675-1.] SECTION  168 . Preparation of Opinions for Publication . — The reporter shall prepare and publish with each reported decision a concise synopsis of the facts necessary to a clear understanding of the case and shall state the names of counsel, and concisely th e material and controverted points made, and the authority therein cited by them, and shall prefix to each case a syllabus, which shall be confined, as near as may be, to points of law decided by the court on the facts of the case, without a recital therei n of the facts. [136-37; 1675-1.] SECTION  169 . General Make-Up of Volumes . — Each volume of the decisions of the Supreme Court shall contain a table of the cases reported and of the cases cited in the opinions and a full and alphabetical index of the subject matters of the volume prepared  by the reporter, shall contain not less than seven hundred and fifty pages of printed matter, shall be well printed, upon good paper, and well bound in the best law sheep, substantially in the manner of the reports of the decisions of the Supreme Court of  the United States, and shall be styled, "Philippine Reports", and numbered consecutively, in the order of the volumes published. SDTaHc [136-34.] S ECTION  170 . Assignment of Supreme Court Judge to Sit in Court of First Instance . — The Supreme Court may, at any time, and for any reason satisfactory to its judges, assign any judge of that Court to hear any particular cause pending in any Court of First  Instance, or to hold a term of the court in any Court of First Instance. The judge so assigned shall possess all the powers of a Copyright 2012 CD Technologies Asia, Inc. and Accesslaw, Inc. Philippine Law Encyclopedia 2011 57