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https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-181/subchapter-ii/1651/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 181 - Servitudes Generally (§§ 1631 — 1683)›Subchapter II - Manner of Acquiri... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 181 - Servitudes Generally (§§ 1631 — 1683) › Subchapter II - Manner of Acquiring Servitudes (§§ 1651 — 1656) › § 1651 - Acqu... | Continuous and apparent servitudes are acquired either by virtue of a title or by prescription after twenty years.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 473. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-181/subchapter-ii/1652/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 181 - Servitudes Generally (§§ 1631 — 1683)›Subchapter II - Manner of Acquiri... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 181 - Servitudes Generally (§§ 1631 — 1683) › Subchapter II - Manner of Acquiring Servitudes (§§ 1651 — 1656) › § 1652 - Comp... | In order to acquire by prescription the servitudes referred to in the preceding section, the time of possession shall be counted, in positive servitudes, from the day on which the owner of the dominant tenement or the person who has made use of the servitude shall have begun to exert it over the servient tenement; and ... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-181/subchapter-ii/1653/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 181 - Servitudes Generally (§§ 1631 — 1683)›Subchapter II - Manner of Acquiri... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 181 - Servitudes Generally (§§ 1631 — 1683) › Subchapter II - Manner of Acquiring Servitudes (§§ 1651 — 1656) › § 1653 - Serv... | Continuous and not apparent servitudes and discontinuous servitudes, either apparent or not apparent, can only be acquired by virtue of a title.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 475. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-181/subchapter-ii/1654/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 181 - Servitudes Generally (§§ 1631 — 1683)›Subchapter II - Manner of Acquiri... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 181 - Servitudes Generally (§§ 1631 — 1683) › Subchapter II - Manner of Acquiring Servitudes (§§ 1651 — 1656) › § 1654 - Reme... | The want of a title establishing servitudes which cannot be acquired by prescription can only be remedied by deed of acknowledgment, executed by the owner of the servient tenement or by final judgment.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 476. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-181/subchapter-ii/1655/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 181 - Servitudes Generally (§§ 1631 — 1683)›Subchapter II - Manner of Acquiri... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 181 - Servitudes Generally (§§ 1631 — 1683) › Subchapter II - Manner of Acquiring Servitudes (§§ 1651 — 1656) › § 1655 - Sign... | The existence of any apparent sign of servitude between two tenements established by the owner of both of them, shall be considered, if one of them be alienated, as a title, in order that the servitudes may continue actively and passively, unless, at the time of the division of the ownership of both tenements, the cont... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-181/subchapter-ii/1656/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 181 - Servitudes Generally (§§ 1631 — 1683)›Subchapter II - Manner of Acquiri... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 181 - Servitudes Generally (§§ 1631 — 1683) › Subchapter II - Manner of Acquiring Servitudes (§§ 1651 — 1656) › § 1656 - Righ... | Whenever a servitude is established, all the rights necessary for its use are considered as granted.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 478. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-181/subchapter-iii/1671/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 181 - Servitudes Generally (§§ 1631 — 1683)›Subchapter III - Rights and Oblig... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 181 - Servitudes Generally (§§ 1631 — 1683) › Subchapter III - Rights and Obligations of Owners of Dominant and Servient Tene... | The owner of the dominant tenement may make, at his own expense, on the servient tenement, all works necessary for the use and preservation of the servitude, but without altering it or rendering it more onerous.
He shall select therefor the most convenient time and manner in order to cause the least possible inconvenie... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-181/subchapter-iii/1672/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 181 - Servitudes Generally (§§ 1631 — 1683)›Subchapter III - Rights and Oblig... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 181 - Servitudes Generally (§§ 1631 — 1683) › Subchapter III - Rights and Obligations of Owners of Dominant and Servient Tene... | If there be several dominant tenements, the owners of all of them shall be obliged to contribute to the expenses referred to in the preceding section, in proportion to the benefits each may obtain from the work. The one who does not wish to contribute may exempt himself by renouncing the servitude for the benefit of th... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-181/subchapter-iii/1673/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 181 - Servitudes Generally (§§ 1631 — 1683)›Subchapter III - Rights and Oblig... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 181 - Servitudes Generally (§§ 1631 — 1683) › Subchapter III - Rights and Obligations of Owners of Dominant and Servient Tene... | The owner of the servient tenement cannot impair, in any manner whatsoever, the use of an established servitude.
Nevertheless, if by reason of the place originally assigned or of the manner established for the use of the servitude, it shall become too inconvenient to the owner of the servient tenement or prevent him fr... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-181/subchapter-iv/1681/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 181 - Servitudes Generally (§§ 1631 — 1683)›Subchapter IV - Extinguishment of... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 181 - Servitudes Generally (§§ 1631 — 1683) › Subchapter IV - Extinguishment of Servitudes (§§ 1681 — 1683) › § 1681 - Manner... | Servitudes are extinguished:
(1) By merger in the same person of the ownership of the servient and dominant tenements.
(2) By nonuse for twenty years.
In discontinuous servitudes, this period shall begin to be reckoned from the day on which they have ceased to be used; and with regard to continuous servitudes, from the... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-181/subchapter-iv/1682/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 181 - Servitudes Generally (§§ 1631 — 1683)›Subchapter IV - Extinguishment of... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 181 - Servitudes Generally (§§ 1631 — 1683) › Subchapter IV - Extinguishment of Servitudes (§§ 1681 — 1683) › § 1682 - Prescr... | The form in which the servitude is to be used may be prescribed like the servitude itself, and in the same manner.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 483. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-181/subchapter-iv/1683/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 181 - Servitudes Generally (§§ 1631 — 1683)›Subchapter IV - Extinguishment of... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 181 - Servitudes Generally (§§ 1631 — 1683) › Subchapter IV - Extinguishment of Servitudes (§§ 1681 — 1683) › § 1683 - Prescr... | If the dominant tenement belongs to several persons in common, the use of the servitude made by one of them prevents prescription with regard to the others.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 484. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-i/1701/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter I - General Provisions (§§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter I - General Provisions (§§ 1701 — 1703) › § 1701 - Object of legal servi... | The object of servitudes imposed by law is either public utility, or private interest.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 485. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-i/1702/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter I - General Provisions (§§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter I - General Provisions (§§ 1701 — 1703) › § 1702 - Law governing servitu... | All that concerns servitudes established for public or common utility, shall be governed by the special laws and regulations relating thereto, and in the absence of such, by the provisions of this part.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 486. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-i/1703/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter I - General Provisions (§§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter I - General Provisions (§§ 1701 — 1703) › § 1703 - Law governing servitu... | The servitudes established by law for the interest of private persons or from motives of private utility, shall be governed by the provisions of this part, without prejudice to the provisions of general or local laws, regulations and ordinances with regard to city or rural police.
These servitudes may be modified by ag... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-ii/1711/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter II - Servitudes Relating t... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter II - Servitudes Relating to Waters (§§ 1711 — 1722) › § 1711 - Waters wh... | Lower tenements are obliged to receive the waters which naturally and without the intervention of man descend from higher tenements, as well as the stone or earth which they carry with them.
Neither may the owner of the lower tenement construct works preventing the servitudes nor the owner of the higher tenement works ... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-ii/1712/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter II - Servitudes Relating t... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter II - Servitudes Relating to Waters (§§ 1711 — 1722) › § 1712 - Banks of ... | The banks of rivers, even when they are of private ownership, are subject in their entire length and in their margins, within a zone of three meters, to the servitude of public use for the general interest of navigation, floatage, fishing and salvage.
The tenements adjoining the banks of navigable or floatable rivers a... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-ii/1713/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter II - Servitudes Relating t... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter II - Servitudes Relating to Waters (§§ 1711 — 1722) › § 1713 - Abutment ... | If for the diversion or taking of waters from a river or brook, or for the use of other continuous or discontinuous streams it be necessary to construct a dam, and the person who is to construct the same is not the owner of the banks or land upon which he may have to support it, he may establish the servitude for the a... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-ii/1714/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter II - Servitudes Relating t... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter II - Servitudes Relating to Waters (§§ 1711 — 1722) › § 1714 - Drawing o... | Forced servitudes for drawing water and for drinking troughs for watering animals, may be imposed only for a cause of public utility in favor of a town or village, after payment of the proper indemnity.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 491. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-ii/1715/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter II - Servitudes Relating t... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter II - Servitudes Relating to Waters (§§ 1711 — 1722) › § 1715 - Drawing o... | The servitudes for drawing water and for watering animals carry with them the obligation of servient tenements of giving the right-of-way to persons and animals to the point where such servitudes may be utilized, and the indemnity shall include this service.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 492. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-ii/1716/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter II - Servitudes Relating t... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter II - Servitudes Relating to Waters (§§ 1711 — 1722) › § 1716 - Passage o... | Whoever wishes to make use of water of which he can dispose upon a tenement belonging to him, has the right to cause it to pass through the intermediate tenements, with the obligation of indemnifying their owners, as well as those of the lower tenements upon which the water may filter or descend.
History —Civil Code, 1... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-ii/1717/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter II - Servitudes Relating t... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter II - Servitudes Relating to Waters (§§ 1711 — 1722) › § 1717 - Passage o... | A person desiring to make use of the right granted in the preceding section is obliged:
(1) To prove that he can dispose of the water, and that it is sufficient for the use to which it be destined.
(2) To show that the right-of-way he requests is that which is most convenient and least onerous to a third person.
(3) To... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-ii/1718/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter II - Servitudes Relating t... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter II - Servitudes Relating to Waters (§§ 1711 — 1722) › § 1718 - Servitude... | The servitude of an aqueduct for an object of private interest cannot be imposed on buildings nor their yards or dependencies, nor on gardens or orchards already in existence.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 495. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-ii/1719/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter II - Servitudes Relating t... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter II - Servitudes Relating to Waters (§§ 1711 — 1722) › § 1719 - Servitude... | The servitude of an aqueduct does not prevent the owner of the servient tenement from closing and fencing it, nor from building over the aqueduct, in such manner that the latter suffers no damage nor renders impossible necessary repairs and cleanings.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 496. |
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History —Civil Code, 1930, § ... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-ii/1721/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter II - Servitudes Relating t... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter II - Servitudes Relating to Waters (§§ 1711 — 1722) › § 1721 - Stop lock... | A party who for the purpose of irrigating or improving his tenement, as to construct a stop lock or sluice gate in the sluiceway through which the water is to be received, may demand that the owners of the margins allow their construction, after paying all losses and damages, including those caused by the new servitude... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-ii/1722/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter II - Servitudes Relating t... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter II - Servitudes Relating to Waters (§§ 1711 — 1722) › § 1722 - Applicati... | The establishment, extent, form and conditions of the servitudes of waters to which this subchapter refers, shall be governed by the special law relating thereto insofar as is not provided for in this title.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 499. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-iii/1731/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter III - Servitudes of Right ... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter III - Servitudes of Right of Way (§§ 1731 — 1737) › § 1731 - Right of wa... | The owner of a tenement or property surrounded by others belonging to several owners, and having no exit to the public highways, has the right to demand the right of way through the neighboring tenements on paying the proper indemnity.
If this servitude be established in such a manner that its use may be continuous for... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-iii/1732/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter III - Servitudes of Right ... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter III - Servitudes of Right of Way (§§ 1731 — 1737) › § 1732 - Location | The servitude of the right-of-way shall be at the point least prejudicial to the servient tenement, and, insofar as is consistent with this rule, where the distance from the dominant tenement to the public road may be the shortest.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 501. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-iii/1733/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter III - Servitudes of Right ... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter III - Servitudes of Right of Way (§§ 1731 — 1737) › § 1733 - Width of se... | The width of the servitude of the right-of-way shall be sufficient for the necessities of the dominant tenement.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 502. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-iii/1734/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter III - Servitudes of Right ... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter III - Servitudes of Right of Way (§§ 1731 — 1737) › § 1734 - When grante... | When a tenement, acquired by sale, exchange or division, shall be surrounded by other tenements of the vendor, exchanger or part-owner, the latter shall be obliged to grant the right-of-way without indemnity, unless there is an agreement to the contrary.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 503. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-iii/1735/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter III - Servitudes of Right ... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter III - Servitudes of Right of Way (§§ 1731 — 1737) › § 1735 - Extinction ... | If the right-of-way granted to an enclosed tenement ceases to be necessary because the owner thereof has joined it to another abutting on the public road, the owner of the servient tenement may demand the extinction of the servitude, returning what he may have received by way of indemnity.
The same shall be understood ... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-iii/1736/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter III - Servitudes of Right ... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter III - Servitudes of Right of Way (§§ 1731 — 1737) › § 1736 - Transportat... | If it be indispensable for the construction or repair of a building to carry the materials through another’s tenement, or to raise thereon scaffolding or other objects necessary for the work, the owner of the said tenement is obliged to consent thereto, receiving an indemnity equivalent to the damage caused him.
Histor... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-iii/1737/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter III - Servitudes of Right ... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter III - Servitudes of Right of Way (§§ 1731 — 1737) › § 1737 - Passage of ... | Existing servitudes of the right-of-way for the passage of stock, and those for watering troughs, shall be governed by the ordinances and regulations relating thereto, and, in the absence thereof, by the uses and customs of the place.
When it may be necessary to establish a forced servitude of the right-of-way or for a... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-iv/1751/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter IV - Servitude of Party Wa... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter IV - Servitude of Party Walls and Fences (§§ 1751 — 1759) › § 1751 - Law... | The servitude of party walls and fences shall be governed by the provisions of this part, and by the local ordinances and customs insofar as they do not conflict with the same, in the absence of provisions governing such servitude.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 507. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-iv/1752/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter IV - Servitude of Party Wa... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter IV - Servitude of Party Walls and Fences (§§ 1751 — 1759) › § 1752 - Pre... | The servitude of party walls and fences is presumed, unless there is a title or exterior sign or proof to the contrary:
(1) In dividing walls of adjoining buildings, up to the point of common elevation.
(2) In dividing walls of gardens or yards, situated in a town or in rural districts.
(3) In fences, enclosures, and l... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-iv/1753/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter IV - Servitude of Party Wa... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter IV - Servitude of Party Walls and Fences (§§ 1751 — 1759) › § 1753 - Ext... | It is understood that there are exterior signs, contrary to the servitude of party walls and fences:
(1) When in dividing walls of buildings there are windows or openings.
(2) When the dividing wall is, on one side, straight and vertical in all its facement and has similar conditions in the upper part of the other side... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-iv/1754/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter IV - Servitude of Party Wa... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter IV - Servitude of Party Walls and Fences (§§ 1751 — 1759) › § 1754 - Dit... | Open ditches or drains between tenements are also considered as common if there be no title or sign proving the contrary.
There is a sign contrary to ownership in common when the earth or dirt removed to open or clean the ditch is only on one side thereof, in which case the ownership of the ditch shall be vested exclus... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-iv/1755/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter IV - Servitude of Party Wa... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter IV - Servitude of Party Walls and Fences (§§ 1751 — 1759) › § 1755 - Cos... | The cost of repairs and construction of party walls and the preservation of enclosures, live hedges, ditches and drains in common shall be borne by all the owners of the tenements who are interested therein, in proportion to the rights of each one.
Nevertheless, any owner may exempt himself from contributing to this ch... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-iv/1756/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter IV - Servitude of Party Wa... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter IV - Servitude of Party Walls and Fences (§§ 1751 — 1759) › § 1756 - Dem... | If the owner of a building supported by a party wall desires to demolish it, he may also renounce the part ownership; but all the repairs and works necessary to prevent damages which the demolition may cause to the party wall, on this occasion only, shall be paid for by him.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 512. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-iv/1757/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter IV - Servitude of Party Wa... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter IV - Servitude of Party Walls and Fences (§§ 1751 — 1759) › § 1757 - Con... | Every owner may construct a party wall by erecting it at his own expense, and by paying for any damages which may be caused by the work, even when only temporary.
He shall also have to pay for the expenses of maintaining the wall in the part newly raised or deepened at its foundation, with regard to its former conditio... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-iv/1758/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter IV - Servitude of Party Wa... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter IV - Servitude of Party Walls and Fences (§§ 1751 — 1759) › § 1758 - Own... | The other owners, who have not contributed in giving increased height, depth or thickness to the wall, may, nevertheless, acquire therein the right of part ownership by paying proportionately the value of the work and one-half that of the land appropriated for its increased thickness.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 514. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-iv/1759/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter IV - Servitude of Party Wa... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter IV - Servitude of Party Walls and Fences (§§ 1751 — 1759) › § 1759 - Use... | Every owner of a party wall may use it in proportion to the right he may have in the part-ownership. He may, therefore, build, supporting his structure on the party wall, or introduce joists up to one-half its thickness, but without interfering with the common and respective uses of the other part-owners.
In order that... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-v/1771/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter V - Servitude of Light and... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter V - Servitude of Light and View (§§ 1771 — 1776) › § 1771 - Windows or o... | No part-owner may, without the consent of the other, make in the party wall any window or opening whatever.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 516. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-v/1772/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter V - Servitude of Light and... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter V - Servitude of Light and View (§§ 1771 — 1776) › § 1772 - Servitude of... | The owner of a wall which is not a party wall, adjoining another’s tenement, may make in it windows or openings to admit light, at the height of the ceiling joists or immediately under the ceiling, of the dimensions of thirty centimeters square, and, in any case, with an iron grate embedded in the wall and a wire scree... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-v/1773/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter V - Servitude of Light and... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter V - Servitude of Light and View (§§ 1771 — 1776) › § 1773 - Windows and ... | Windows with direct views, or balconies or any similar openings projecting over the tenement of a neighbor shall not be made if there is not a distance of one meter and a half between the wall in which they are built and the said property.
Neither shall side or oblique views be opened over the said property, unless the... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-v/1774/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter V - Servitude of Light and... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter V - Servitude of Light and View (§§ 1771 — 1776) › § 1774 - Windows and ... | The distances referred to in the preceding section shall be measured, in cases of direct views, from the outer line of the wall when the openings do not project, from the line of the latter, when they exist, and for oblique views, from the dividing line of both properties.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 519. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-v/1775/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter V - Servitude of Light and... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter V - Servitude of Light and View (§§ 1771 — 1776) › § 1775 - Buildings se... | The provisions of § 1773 of this title are not applicable to buildings separated by a public thoroughfare.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 520. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-v/1776/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter V - Servitude of Light and... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter V - Servitude of Light and View (§§ 1771 — 1776) › § 1776 - Distance for... | When, under any title, a right has been acquired to have direct views, balconies or lookouts overlooking adjacent property, the owner of the servient tenement shall not build thereon at less than two meters distance, to be measured according to the manner stated in § 1774 of this title.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 521... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-vi/1791/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter VI - Drainage of Buildings... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter VI - Drainage of Buildings (§§ 1791 — 1793) › § 1791 - Construction of r... | The owner of a building is obliged to construct his roofs or coverings in such manner that rainwater may fall on his own land or on the street or any public place, and not on the land of his neighbor. Even if it fall on his own land, the owner is obliged to collect it in such manner as will not injure the adjoining ten... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-vi/1792/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter VI - Drainage of Buildings... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter VI - Drainage of Buildings (§§ 1791 — 1793) › § 1792 - Disposition of wa... | The owner of the tenement charged with a servitude of receiving water discharged from roofs, may build in such way as to receive the waters upon his own roof, or give them another outlet, in accordance with the local ordinances or customs, and so as not to be burdensome or detrimental to the dominant tenement in any ma... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-vi/1793/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter VI - Drainage of Buildings... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter VI - Drainage of Buildings (§§ 1791 — 1793) › § 1793 - Servitude of drai... | When the yard or court of a house is enclosed between other houses, and it be not possible to give an outlet through the house itself to the rainwater collected therein, the establishment of a servitude of drain may be demanded, giving an outlet to the waters at the point of the contiguous tenements where its egress ma... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-vii/1801/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter VII - Intermediate Distanc... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter VII - Intermediate Distances and Works for Certain Constructions and Pla... | Buildings cannot be constructed nor plantings made near fortified places or fortresses without submitting to the conditions required by the special laws, ordinances and regulations relating thereto.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 525. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-vii/1802/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter VII - Intermediate Distanc... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter VII - Intermediate Distances and Works for Certain Constructions and Pla... | No one shall construct near a wall belonging to another, or near a party wall, wells, sewers, aqueducts, kilns, forges, chimneys, stables, deposits of corrosive materials, manufactories operated by steam, or factories which by reason of their character or products are dangerous or noxious, without observing the distanc... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-vii/1803/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter VII - Intermediate Distanc... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter VII - Intermediate Distances and Works for Certain Constructions and Pla... | Trees shall not be planted near another’s tenement, except at the distance authorized by the ordinances or customs of the locality, and, in default thereof, at a distance of two meters from the dividing line of the tenements, if the planning is made of tall trees, and at fifty centimeters if the planting is of shrubs o... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-vii/1804/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter VII - Intermediate Distanc... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter VII - Intermediate Distances and Works for Certain Constructions and Pla... | If the branches of any trees extend over a neighboring tenement, gardens or yards, the owner of the latter shall have the right to claim that they be cut off, insofar as they extend over his property, and if it be the roots of the neighboring trees that extend into the land of another person, the owner of the land into... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-183/subchapter-vii/1805/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805)›Subchapter VII - Intermediate Distanc... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 183 - Legal Servitudes (§§ 1701 — 1805) › Subchapter VII - Intermediate Distances and Works for Certain Constructions and Pla... | Trees existing in a party live hedge shall also be considered as party trees, and any of the owners has a right to demand that they be felled.
Trees serving as boundary marks are excepted, and may be uprooted by common consent of the owners of the adjoining tenements.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 529. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-185/1821/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 185 - Voluntary Servitudes (§§ 1821 — 1831)›§ 1821 - Establishment of volunta... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 185 - Voluntary Servitudes (§§ 1821 — 1831) › § 1821 - Establishment of voluntary servitudes | Every owner of an estate has a right to charge it with all the servitudes he may deem fit, and in the manner and form he may consider as best, provided he does not violate the laws or public order.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 530. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-185/1822/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 185 - Voluntary Servitudes (§§ 1821 — 1831)›§ 1822 - Servitudes not injuring ... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 185 - Voluntary Servitudes (§§ 1821 — 1831) › § 1822 - Servitudes not injuring usufruct | The owner of a tenement the usufruct of which belongs to another may impose thereon, without the consent of the usufructuary, any servitudes not injuring the rights of usufruct.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 531. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-185/1823/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 185 - Voluntary Servitudes (§§ 1821 — 1831)›§ 1823 - Consent of persons havin... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 185 - Voluntary Servitudes (§§ 1821 — 1831) › § 1823 - Consent of persons having direct and beneficial dominion | When one person has the direct dominion of any property and another has the beneficial dominion, no perpetual voluntary servitudes can be established thereon without the consent of both owners.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 532. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-185/1824/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 185 - Voluntary Servitudes (§§ 1821 — 1831)›§ 1824 - Servitude on undivided t... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 185 - Voluntary Servitudes (§§ 1821 — 1831) › § 1824 - Servitude on undivided tenement | In order to impose a servitude on an undivided tenement, the consent of all the part-owners shall be required.
The consent given by some only shall remain in suspension until every one of the joint owners agrees thereto.
But the consent given by one of the part-owners separately shall bind the grantor or his successors... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-185/1825/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 185 - Voluntary Servitudes (§§ 1821 — 1831)›§ 1825 - Rights and obligations u... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 185 - Voluntary Servitudes (§§ 1821 — 1831) › § 1825 - Rights and obligations under servitude by prescription | The title, and in a proper case, the possession of a servitude acquired by prescription determines the rights of the dominant tenement and the obligation of the servient tenement. In default thereof, the servitude shall be governed by such provisions of this part as may be applicable.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 534. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-185/1826/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 185 - Voluntary Servitudes (§§ 1821 — 1831)›§ 1826 - Cost of works for use an... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 185 - Voluntary Servitudes (§§ 1821 — 1831) › § 1826 - Cost of works for use and preservation of servitude | If the owner of the servient tenement has bound himself at the time of establishing the servitude to defray the cost of the works required for the use and preservation thereof, he may free himself from this obligation by abandoning his estate to the owner of the dominant tenement.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 535. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-185/1827/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 185 - Voluntary Servitudes (§§ 1821 — 1831)›§ 1827 - Pasturage in common—How ... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 185 - Voluntary Servitudes (§§ 1821 — 1831) › § 1827 - Pasturage in common—How established | Pasturage in common may only be established in the future by an express consent of the owners, contained in a contract or last will, and not in favor of a community of persons or upon a community of property, but in favor of specified individuals and on tenements also definite and specified.
A servitude established in ... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-185/1828/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 185 - Voluntary Servitudes (§§ 1821 — 1831)›§ 1828 - Pasturage in common—On p... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 185 - Voluntary Servitudes (§§ 1821 — 1831) › § 1828 - Pasturage in common—On public lands | Pasturage in common on public lands, whether belonging to the municipalities, to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or to the People of the United States, shall be governed by the administrative laws.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 537;. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-185/1829/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 185 - Voluntary Servitudes (§§ 1821 — 1831)›§ 1829 - Pasturage in common—Encl... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 185 - Voluntary Servitudes (§§ 1821 — 1831) › § 1829 - Pasturage in common—Enclosure of property | If pasturage in common exists between residents of one or more towns, the owner who encloses his property with a wall or hedge shall free the same from the pasturage in common. The other servitudes established on the same shall, nevertheless, continue.
The owner who encloses his tenement shall preserve his right to the... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-185/1830/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 185 - Voluntary Servitudes (§§ 1821 — 1831)›§ 1830 - Redemption of servitude ... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 185 - Voluntary Servitudes (§§ 1821 — 1831) › § 1830 - Redemption of servitude of pasturage | The owner of land encumbered by a servitude of pasturage may redeem it by paying the value thereof to those having the right thereto.
In default of any agreement, the amount of the said redemption shall be fixed upon the basis of four percent of the annual value of the pasturage fixed by an expert appraisement.
History... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-vii/chapter-185/1831/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831)›Chapter 185 - Voluntary Servitudes (§§ 1821 — 1831)›§ 1831 - Servitude for use of woo... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VII - Servitudes (§§ 1631 — 1831) › Chapter 185 - Voluntary Servitudes (§§ 1821 — 1831) › § 1831 - Servitude for use of woodland products | The provisions contained in the preceding section are applicable to servitudes established for the use of firewood and other products of woodland which are private property.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 540. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-viii/chapter-188/1858/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VIII - Homestead (§§ 1851-1857 — 1858k)›Chapter 188 - Homestead Protection Act (§§ 1858 — 1858k)›§ 1858 - Homestead rig... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VIII - Homestead (§§ 1851-1857 — 1858k) › Chapter 188 - Homestead Protection Act (§§ 1858 — 1858k) › § 1858 - Homestead right | Every individual or head of family residing in Puerto Rico shall be entitled to own and enjoy, under the homestead right concept, a parcel and the structure located thereon, or a residence under the regime established in the Condominiums Act, which belongs to him/her or which he/she lawfully owns, and occupied by him/h... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-viii/chapter-188/1858a/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VIII - Homestead (§§ 1851-1857 — 1858k)›Chapter 188 - Homestead Protection Act (§§ 1858 — 1858k)›§ 1858a - Waivers and ... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VIII - Homestead (§§ 1851-1857 — 1858k) › Chapter 188 - Homestead Protection Act (§§ 1858 — 1858k) › § 1858a - Waivers and exemptions | The homestead right shall not be waived and any agreement to the contrary shall be declared null.
However, the homestead right shall be deemed to be waived in the following circumstances:
(a) All cases in which the protected property is pledge for a mortgage.
(b) In case of state and federal tax collection.
(c) In case... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-viii/chapter-188/1858b/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VIII - Homestead (§§ 1851-1857 — 1858k)›Chapter 188 - Homestead Protection Act (§§ 1858 — 1858k)›§ 1858b - Protection a... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VIII - Homestead (§§ 1851-1857 — 1858k) › Chapter 188 - Homestead Protection Act (§§ 1858 — 1858k) › § 1858b - Protection against attachment, judgment, or foreclosure | This right shall protect properties against attachment, judgment, or foreclosure for the payment of all debts, except for those debts established as exceptions in § 1858a of this title.
History —Sept. 13, 2011, No. 195, § 5. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-viii/chapter-188/1858c/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VIII - Homestead (§§ 1851-1857 — 1858k)›Chapter 188 - Homestead Protection Act (§§ 1858 — 1858k)›§ 1858c - Homestead pr... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VIII - Homestead (§§ 1851-1857 — 1858k) › Chapter 188 - Homestead Protection Act (§§ 1858 — 1858k) › § 1858c - Homestead protection shall continue after death, abandonme... | The protection established in § 1858b of this title shall continue after the death of any of the spouses for the benefit of the surviving spouse, so long as he/she continues to occupy the homestead, and after the death of both spouses for the benefit of their children until the youngest reaches legal age. Should a husb... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-viii/chapter-188/1858d/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VIII - Homestead (§§ 1851-1857 — 1858k)›Chapter 188 - Homestead Protection Act (§§ 1858 — 1858k)›§ 1858d - Homestead pr... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VIII - Homestead (§§ 1851-1857 — 1858k) › Chapter 188 - Homestead Protection Act (§§ 1858 — 1858k) › § 1858d - Homestead protection in case of leasing | As long as the protected homestead beneficiary is alive, the temporary lease of the home which, for work or study reasons, military or diplomatic services, or due to the illness of any member of his/her family up to the third degree of consanguinity or affinity that compels the individual or his/her family to temporari... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-viii/chapter-188/1858e/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VIII - Homestead (§§ 1851-1857 — 1858k)›Chapter 188 - Homestead Protection Act (§§ 1858 — 1858k)›§ 1858e - Homestead pr... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VIII - Homestead (§§ 1851-1857 — 1858k) › Chapter 188 - Homestead Protection Act (§§ 1858 — 1858k) › § 1858e - Homestead protection in case of sale | In such cases in which the protected property constituting a homestead is sold in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, the owner shall have a term of nine (9) months, as of the time of the sale, to invest the sale proceeds in another property located in Puerto Rico and for such property to become his/her new... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-viii/chapter-188/1858f/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VIII - Homestead (§§ 1851-1857 — 1858k)›Chapter 188 - Homestead Protection Act (§§ 1858 — 1858k)›§ 1858f - Claim of hom... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VIII - Homestead (§§ 1851-1857 — 1858k) › Chapter 188 - Homestead Protection Act (§§ 1858 — 1858k) › § 1858f - Claim of homestead protection in purchase deed; record in ... | Any individual or head of family who acquires a rural or urban parcel to establish and create his/her homestead thereon shall state so in the deed after having been duly advised on this duty by the authorizing notary, who shall attest to such fact; and upon recording the same, the Property Registrar shall enter such st... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-viii/chapter-188/1858g/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VIII - Homestead (§§ 1851-1857 — 1858k)›Chapter 188 - Homestead Protection Act (§§ 1858 — 1858k)›§ 1858g - Penalty for ... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VIII - Homestead (§§ 1851-1857 — 1858k) › Chapter 188 - Homestead Protection Act (§§ 1858 — 1858k) › § 1858g - Penalty for unlawful record | Any person who attempts to or files a declaration of homestead with the Property Registry for more than one parcel belonging to him/her, or who attempts to or files a declaration of homestead in favor of another person who is not entitled to such right shall incur a fourth degree felony. In addition, should the person ... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-viii/chapter-188/1858h/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VIII - Homestead (§§ 1851-1857 — 1858k)›Chapter 188 - Homestead Protection Act (§§ 1858 — 1858k)›§ 1858h - Registration... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VIII - Homestead (§§ 1851-1857 — 1858k) › Chapter 188 - Homestead Protection Act (§§ 1858 — 1858k) › § 1858h - Registration of a parcel and filing of a declaration of ho... | The fact that a parcel has not been registered in the Property Registry, or that the declaration of homestead has not been filed with or entered in the Property Registry, shall in no way impair the owner’s homestead right thereon, provided that such right has been timely claimed as provided in § 1858i of this title.
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https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-viii/chapter-188/1858i/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VIII - Homestead (§§ 1851-1857 — 1858k)›Chapter 188 - Homestead Protection Act (§§ 1858 — 1858k)›§ 1858i - Claiming the... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VIII - Homestead (§§ 1851-1857 — 1858k) › Chapter 188 - Homestead Protection Act (§§ 1858 — 1858k) › § 1858i - Claiming the homestead right in a sale resulting from judg... | Homestead right shall be claimed through a motion filed with the court within thirty (30) days as of the date in which foreclosure against the properties belonging to the defendant has been petitioned in order to comply with a ruling of a competent court; or from the time in which a pre-judgment attachment or garnishme... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-viii/chapter-188/1858j/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VIII - Homestead (§§ 1851-1857 — 1858k)›Chapter 188 - Homestead Protection Act (§§ 1858 — 1858k)›§ 1858j - Recording an... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VIII - Homestead (§§ 1851-1857 — 1858k) › Chapter 188 - Homestead Protection Act (§§ 1858 — 1858k) › § 1858j - Recording and cancellation fees | The filing with and recording in the Property Registry of a declaration of homestead shall be exempted in its entirety from the payment of any applicable fees, including stamps and vouchers.
History —Sept. 13, 2011, No. 195, § 13. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-viii/chapter-188/1858k/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART VIII - Homestead (§§ 1851-1857 — 1858k)›Chapter 188 - Homestead Protection Act (§§ 1858 — 1858k)›§ 1858k - Office of No... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART VIII - Homestead (§§ 1851-1857 — 1858k) › Chapter 188 - Homestead Protection Act (§§ 1858 — 1858k) › § 1858k - Office of Notarial Inspection | The Office of Notarial Inspection (ODIN, Spanish acronym) shall be required to notify notaries on the provisions of this chapter and to inform the legal community about the scope and implications thereof.
History —Sept. 13, 2011, No. 195, § 14. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-ix/chapter-191/1871/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART IX - Registry of Property (§§ 1871 — 1875)›Chapter 191 - Recording of Ownership and Rights (§§ 1871 — 1875)›§ 1871 - Ob... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART IX - Registry of Property (§§ 1871 — 1875) › Chapter 191 - Recording of Ownership and Rights (§§ 1871 — 1875) › § 1871 - Object of registry of property | The registry of property has for its object the inscription and annotation of the documents or contracts relating to ownership and other real rights on immovables.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 545. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-ix/chapter-191/1872/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART IX - Registry of Property (§§ 1871 — 1875)›Chapter 191 - Recording of Ownership and Rights (§§ 1871 — 1875)›§ 1872 - Un... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART IX - Registry of Property (§§ 1871 — 1875) › Chapter 191 - Recording of Ownership and Rights (§§ 1871 — 1875) › § 1872 - Unrecorded titles not prejudicial to third perso... | The titles of ownership or of other real rights relating to immovables which are not properly inscribed or annotated in the registry of property, shall not be prejudicial to third persons.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 546. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-ix/chapter-191/1873/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART IX - Registry of Property (§§ 1871 — 1875)›Chapter 191 - Recording of Ownership and Rights (§§ 1871 — 1875)›§ 1873 - Re... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART IX - Registry of Property (§§ 1871 — 1875) › Chapter 191 - Recording of Ownership and Rights (§§ 1871 — 1875) › § 1873 - Registry to be public | The registry of property shall be public, for the purpose of ascertaining the condition of the immovables or real rights annotated and inscribed.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 547. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-2/part-ix/chapter-191/1874/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875)›PART IX - Registry of Property (§§ 1871 — 1875)›Chapter 191 - Recording of Ownership and Rights (§§ 1871 — 1875)›§ 1874 - Ap... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART IX - Registry of Property (§§ 1871 — 1875) › Chapter 191 - Recording of Ownership and Rights (§§ 1871 — 1875) › § 1874 - Application of mortgage law | In order to determine the titles subject to annotation or inscription, the form, effect and extinction of the same, the manner of keeping the registry, and the value of the entries contained in the books thereof, the provisions of the Mortgage Law shall be observed.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 548. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-3/part-i/chapter-197/1931/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936)›PART I - Generally (§ 1931)›Chapter 197 - List of Ways Ownership May Be Acquired (§ 1931)›§ 1931 - How acquired | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART I - Generally (§ 1931) › Chapter 197 - List of Ways Ownership May Be Acquired (§ 1931) › § 1931 - How acquired | Ownership is acquired by occupancy.
Ownership and other property rights are acquired and transmitted by law, by gift, by testate or intestate succession, and, in consequence of certain contracts, by tradition.
It may also be acquired by prescription.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 549. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-3/part-ii/chapter-201/1951/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936)›PART II - Occupancy (§§ 1951 — 1958)›Chapter 201 - Acquisition of Ownership by Occupancy (§§ 1951 — 1958)›§ 1951 - Things acqui... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART II - Occupancy (§§ 1951 — 1958) › Chapter 201 - Acquisition of Ownership by Occupancy (§§ 1951 — 1958) › § 1951 - Things acquired by occupancy | Things are acquired by occupancy which can be appropriated by reason of their nature, which have no owners, such as animals which are the object of hunting and fishing, hidden treasure, and abandoned property.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 550. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-3/part-ii/chapter-201/1952/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936)›PART II - Occupancy (§§ 1951 — 1958)›Chapter 201 - Acquisition of Ownership by Occupancy (§§ 1951 — 1958)›§ 1952 - Right to hun... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART II - Occupancy (§§ 1951 — 1958) › Chapter 201 - Acquisition of Ownership by Occupancy (§§ 1951 — 1958) › § 1952 - Right to hunt and fish | The right to hunt and fish is governed by special laws.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 551. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-3/part-ii/chapter-201/1953/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936)›PART II - Occupancy (§§ 1951 — 1958)›Chapter 201 - Acquisition of Ownership by Occupancy (§§ 1951 — 1958)›§ 1953 - Swarms of be... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART II - Occupancy (§§ 1951 — 1958) › Chapter 201 - Acquisition of Ownership by Occupancy (§§ 1951 — 1958) › § 1953 - Swarms of bees; tamed animals | The owner of a swarm of bees shall have a right to pursue them on another’s estate, indemnifying the possessor of the latter for the damage caused. Should it be enclosed, he shall require the consent of the owner to enter the same.
Should the owner not have pursued, or should he abandon the pursuit of the swarm for two... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-3/part-ii/chapter-201/1954/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936)›PART II - Occupancy (§§ 1951 — 1958)›Chapter 201 - Acquisition of Ownership by Occupancy (§§ 1951 — 1958)›§ 1954 - Pigeons, rab... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART II - Occupancy (§§ 1951 — 1958) › Chapter 201 - Acquisition of Ownership by Occupancy (§§ 1951 — 1958) › § 1954 - Pigeons, rabbits, and fish | Pigeons, rabbits, and fish, which, from their respective breeding places, should pass to another one, belonging to a different owner, shall be the property of the latter, provided they have not been enticed by means of some trickery or fraud.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 553. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-3/part-ii/chapter-201/1955/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936)›PART II - Occupancy (§§ 1951 — 1958)›Chapter 201 - Acquisition of Ownership by Occupancy (§§ 1951 — 1958)›§ 1955 - Treasure fou... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART II - Occupancy (§§ 1951 — 1958) › Chapter 201 - Acquisition of Ownership by Occupancy (§§ 1951 — 1958) › § 1955 - Treasure found on another’s property | A person finding a treasure by chance, hidden on another’s property, shall have the right granted him by § 1116 of this title.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 554. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-3/part-ii/chapter-201/1956/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936)›PART II - Occupancy (§§ 1951 — 1958)›Chapter 201 - Acquisition of Ownership by Occupancy (§§ 1951 — 1958)›§ 1956 - Finding of p... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART II - Occupancy (§§ 1951 — 1958) › Chapter 201 - Acquisition of Ownership by Occupancy (§§ 1951 — 1958) › § 1956 - Finding of personal property | A person finding any personal property, which is not treasure, must return it to its former possessor. Should the latter be unknown, he must deliver it immediately to the mayor of the town where the find took place.
The mayor shall publish it by posting written advertisements to that effect in the principal hall of the... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-3/part-ii/chapter-201/1957/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936)›PART II - Occupancy (§§ 1951 — 1958)›Chapter 201 - Acquisition of Ownership by Occupancy (§§ 1951 — 1958)›§ 1957 - Pasturage in... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART II - Occupancy (§§ 1951 — 1958) › Chapter 201 - Acquisition of Ownership by Occupancy (§§ 1951 — 1958) › § 1957 - Pasturage in common—Reward for finder | Should the owner appear, in due time, he shall be obliged to pay, as a reward to the finder of the thing, a tenth part of the sum or of the value of the article found. If the value of the find exceeds five hundred dollars, the reward shall be reduced to a twentieth with regard to the excess.
History —Civil Code, 1930, ... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-3/part-ii/chapter-201/1958/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936)›PART II - Occupancy (§§ 1951 — 1958)›Chapter 201 - Acquisition of Ownership by Occupancy (§§ 1951 — 1958)›§ 1958 - Flotsam, jet... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART II - Occupancy (§§ 1951 — 1958) › Chapter 201 - Acquisition of Ownership by Occupancy (§§ 1951 — 1958) › § 1958 - Flotsam, jetsam, and seashore plants | The rights to goods jettisoned, or to those cast ashore by the waves, whatever their nature may be, or to plants and herbs growing on the seashore, are fixed by special laws.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 557. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-3/part-iii/chapter-205/1981/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936)›PART III - Gifts (§§ 1981 — 2053)›Chapter 205 - Nature of Gifts (§§ 1981 — 1988)›§ 1981 - Gift defined | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART III - Gifts (§§ 1981 — 2053) › Chapter 205 - Nature of Gifts (§§ 1981 — 1988) › § 1981 - Gift defined | A gift is an act of liberality by which a person disposes gratuitously of a thing in favor of another, who accepts it.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 558. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-3/part-iii/chapter-205/1982/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936)›PART III - Gifts (§§ 1981 — 2053)›Chapter 205 - Nature of Gifts (§§ 1981 — 1988)›§ 1982 - Inter vivos or causa mortis | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART III - Gifts (§§ 1981 — 2053) › Chapter 205 - Nature of Gifts (§§ 1981 — 1988) › § 1982 - Inter vivos or causa mortis | Gifts may be made inter vivos or causa mortis.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 559. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-3/part-iii/chapter-205/1983/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936)›PART III - Gifts (§§ 1981 — 2053)›Chapter 205 - Nature of Gifts (§§ 1981 — 1988)›§ 1983 - Kinds of gifts inter vivos | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART III - Gifts (§§ 1981 — 2053) › Chapter 205 - Nature of Gifts (§§ 1981 — 1988) › § 1983 - Kinds of gifts inter vivos | Gifts inter vivos may be of three kinds:
(1) A purely gratuitous gift, or one made without any condition attached and through mere liberality.
(2) An onerous gift, or one in which the donee is burdened with a charge upon the value of the thing donated.
(3) A remunerative gift or one made to a person by reason of his me... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-3/part-iii/chapter-205/1984/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936)›PART III - Gifts (§§ 1981 — 2053)›Chapter 205 - Nature of Gifts (§§ 1981 — 1988)›§ 1984 - Onerous gifts | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART III - Gifts (§§ 1981 — 2053) › Chapter 205 - Nature of Gifts (§§ 1981 — 1988) › § 1984 - Onerous gifts | In onerous gifts, the encumbrance imposed upon the donee shall be less in value than the thing donated.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 561. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-3/part-iii/chapter-205/1985/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936)›PART III - Gifts (§§ 1981 — 2053)›Chapter 205 - Nature of Gifts (§§ 1981 — 1988)›§ 1985 - Gifts effective upon death of donor | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART III - Gifts (§§ 1981 — 2053) › Chapter 205 - Nature of Gifts (§§ 1981 — 1988) › § 1985 - Gifts effective upon death of donor | Gifts which are to become effective upon the death of the donor partake of the nature of provisions by last will and shall be governed by the laws established for testamentary succession.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 562. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-3/part-iii/chapter-205/1986/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936)›PART III - Gifts (§§ 1981 — 2053)›Chapter 205 - Nature of Gifts (§§ 1981 — 1988)›§ 1986 - Provisions governing—Gifts inter vivo... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART III - Gifts (§§ 1981 — 2053) › Chapter 205 - Nature of Gifts (§§ 1981 — 1988) › § 1986 - Provisions governing—Gifts inter vivos | Gifts which are to produce their effects inter vivos shall be governed by the general provisions of contracts and obligations in all that is not determined in this part.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 563. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-3/part-iii/chapter-205/1987/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305)›Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936)›PART III - Gifts (§§ 1981 — 2053)›Chapter 205 - Nature of Gifts (§§ 1981 — 1988)›§ 1987 - Provisions governing—Onerous and remu... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART III - Gifts (§§ 1981 — 2053) › Chapter 205 - Nature of Gifts (§§ 1981 — 1988) › § 1987 - Provisions governing—Onerous and remunerative gifts | Onerous gifts shall be governed by the law of contracts, and remunerative gifts, so far as they exceed the value of the charge imposed, by the provisions of this part.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 564. |
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