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https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-i/chapter-249/subchapter-i/3275/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344)›Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344)›Subchapter I - Public and Private Instruments (§§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344) › Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344) › Subchapter I - Public and Private Instruments (§§ 3271 — 3285) › § 3275 - Public instruments—Co... | Copies of public instruments of which there is an original or protocol, contested by those they prejudice, shall have force of proof only when they have been duly collated.
Should there be any difference between the original and the copy the contents of the former shall govern.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1174. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-i/chapter-249/subchapter-i/3276/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344)›Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344)›Subchapter I - Public and Private Instruments (§§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344) › Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344) › Subchapter I - Public and Private Instruments (§§ 3271 — 3285) › § 3276 - Public instruments—Ev... | Should the original instrument, the protocol, and the original record have disappeared, the following shall constitute evidence:
(1) First copies made by the public official who authenticated them.
(2) Subsequent copies issued by virtue of a judicial mandate, after citing the persons interested.
(3) Those which, withou... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-i/chapter-249/subchapter-i/3277/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344)›Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344)›Subchapter I - Public and Private Instruments (§§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344) › Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344) › Subchapter I - Public and Private Instruments (§§ 3271 — 3285) › § 3277 - Public instruments—We... | The entry in any public registry of an instrument which may have disappeared shall be weighed according to the rules established in the last two (2) paragraphs of § 3276 of this title.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1176. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-i/chapter-249/subchapter-i/3278/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344)›Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344)›Subchapter I - Public and Private Instruments (§§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344) › Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344) › Subchapter I - Public and Private Instruments (§§ 3271 — 3285) › § 3278 - Public instruments—De... | An instrument which is defective by reason of the incompetency of the notary or by reason of any other fault in its form shall be considered as a private instrument when signed by the parties who executed the same.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1177. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-i/chapter-249/subchapter-i/3279/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344)›Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344)›Subchapter I - Public and Private Instruments (§§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344) › Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344) › Subchapter I - Public and Private Instruments (§§ 3271 — 3285) › § 3279 - Public instruments—In... | An instrument acknowledging an agreement or contract proves nothing against the instrument containing the same if by excess or omission they disagree therewith, unless the novation of the former is expressly proven.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1178. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-i/chapter-249/subchapter-i/3280/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344)›Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344)›Subchapter I - Public and Private Instruments (§§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344) › Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344) › Subchapter I - Public and Private Instruments (§§ 3271 — 3285) › § 3280 - Private instruments—F... | A private instrument legally acknowledged shall have, with regard to those who signed it and their legal representatives, the same force as a public instrument.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1179. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-i/chapter-249/subchapter-i/3281/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344)›Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344)›Subchapter I - Public and Private Instruments (§§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344) › Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344) › Subchapter I - Public and Private Instruments (§§ 3271 — 3285) › § 3281 - Private instruments—A... | A person against whom a written obligation, which appears signed by him, is set up in court is obliged to declare whether the signature is his or not.
The heirs or the legal representatives of the person obligated may limit themselves to state if they know whether the signature to the obligation is or is not that of th... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-i/chapter-249/subchapter-i/3282/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344)›Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344)›Subchapter I - Public and Private Instruments (§§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344) › Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344) › Subchapter I - Public and Private Instruments (§§ 3271 — 3285) › § 3282 - Private instruments—D... | The date of a private instrument shall be considered, with regard to third persons, only from the date on which it may have been filed or entered in a public registry, from the death of any of those who signed it, or from the date on which it may have been delivered to a public official by virtue of his office.
The sam... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-i/chapter-249/subchapter-i/3283/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344)›Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344)›Subchapter I - Public and Private Instruments (§§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344) › Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344) › Subchapter I - Public and Private Instruments (§§ 3271 — 3285) › § 3283 - Private instruments—F... | Entries, registries, and private papers shall be evidence against the person who has written them only in all that may appear clearly stated; but a person who wishes to make use thereof is bound to accept them also in the part prejudicial to him.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1182. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-i/chapter-249/subchapter-i/3284/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344)›Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344)›Subchapter I - Public and Private Instruments (§§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344) › Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344) › Subchapter I - Public and Private Instruments (§§ 3271 — 3285) › § 3284 - Private instruments—N... | A note written or signed by a creditor at the end, in the margin, or on the back of an instrument held by him constitutes evidence in all that may be favorable to the debtor.
The same shall be understood of a note written or signed by the creditor, on the back, in the margin, or at the foot of the duplicate of an instr... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-i/chapter-249/subchapter-i/3285/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344)›Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344)›Subchapter I - Public and Private Instruments (§§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344) › Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344) › Subchapter I - Public and Private Instruments (§§ 3271 — 3285) › § 3285 - Private instruments—E... | Private instruments executed for the purpose of changing the agreements made in a public instrument shall produce no effect against a third person.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1184. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-i/chapter-249/subchapter-ii/3291/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344)›Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344)›Subchapter II - Confession (§§ 3291 — 3299)›§ 329... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344) › Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344) › Subchapter II - Confession (§§ 3291 — 3299) › § 3291 - How confession made | Confession may be made either judicially or extrajudicially.
In either case it shall be an indispensable condition for the validity of the confession that it should relate to personal acts of the confessor and that he should have legal capacity to make it.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1185. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-i/chapter-249/subchapter-ii/3292/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344)›Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344)›Subchapter II - Confession (§§ 3291 — 3299)›§ 329... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344) › Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344) › Subchapter II - Confession (§§ 3291 — 3299) › § 3292 - Confession evidence against author | Confession is evidence against the author.
Exception is made of the case in which compliance with the laws may be evaded by the same.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1186. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-i/chapter-249/subchapter-ii/3293/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344)›Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344)›Subchapter II - Confession (§§ 3291 — 3299)›§ 329... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344) › Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344) › Subchapter II - Confession (§§ 3291 — 3299) › § 3293 - Partial use of confession | The confession cannot be partially used against him who makes it unless it should refer to different facts, or when a part of the confession is proven by other means, or when, in any particular, it should be contrary to nature or law.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1187. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-i/chapter-249/subchapter-ii/3294/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344)›Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344)›Subchapter II - Confession (§§ 3291 — 3299)›§ 329... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344) › Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344) › Subchapter II - Confession (§§ 3291 — 3299) › § 3294 - When confession loses effectiveness | Confession loses its effectiveness only when it is proven that on making it an error of fact was committed.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1188. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-i/chapter-249/subchapter-ii/3295/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344)›Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344)›Subchapter II - Confession (§§ 3291 — 3299)›§ 329... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344) › Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344) › Subchapter II - Confession (§§ 3291 — 3299) › § 3295 - Judicial confession | A judicial confession must be made under oath before a judge of competent jurisdiction, and when he who may be benefited by it has actual representation in the proceedings.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1189. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-i/chapter-249/subchapter-ii/3296/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344)›Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344)›Subchapter II - Confession (§§ 3291 — 3299)›§ 329... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344) › Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344) › Subchapter II - Confession (§§ 3291 — 3299) › § 3296 - Judicial confession under decisory oath | When a judicial confession under decisory oath is requested, the party from whom it is demanded may ask that the oath be referred to the adverse party, and should the latter refuse to take it, it shall be considered that the person has confessed.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1190. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-i/chapter-249/subchapter-ii/3297/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344)›Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344)›Subchapter II - Confession (§§ 3291 — 3299)›§ 329... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344) › Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344) › Subchapter II - Confession (§§ 3291 — 3299) › § 3297 - When decisory oath not demandable | A decisory oath cannot be demanded on incriminating facts nor on questions with regard to which the parties cannot compromise.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1191. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-i/chapter-249/subchapter-ii/3298/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344)›Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344)›Subchapter II - Confession (§§ 3291 — 3299)›§ 329... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344) › Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344) › Subchapter II - Confession (§§ 3291 — 3299) › § 3298 - Weight of confession under decisory oath | A confession made under decisory oath, whether deferred or referred, constitutes a proof only in favor or against the parties who submitted to it and their heirs or legal representatives.
No proof with regard to the falsity of said oath shall be admitted.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1192. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-i/chapter-249/subchapter-ii/3299/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344)›Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344)›Subchapter II - Confession (§§ 3291 — 3299)›§ 329... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344) › Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344) › Subchapter II - Confession (§§ 3291 — 3299) › § 3299 - Extrajudicial confession | Extrajudicial confession is considered as an act subject to the judgment of the courts, according to the rules established on evidence.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1193. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-i/chapter-249/subchapter-iii/3311/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344)›Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344)›Subchapter III - Personal Inspection by the Judge... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344) › Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344) › Subchapter III - Personal Inspection by the Judge (§§ 3311 — 3312) › § 3311 - Effectiveness of ... | Evidence by personal inspection by the court or judge shall only be effective insofar as it clearly permits the court to judge, by the external appearance of the thing inspected, of the fact which he desires to ascertain.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1194. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-i/chapter-249/subchapter-iii/3312/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344)›Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344)›Subchapter III - Personal Inspection by the Judge... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344) › Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344) › Subchapter III - Personal Inspection by the Judge (§§ 3311 — 3312) › § 3312 - Weight in decisio... | The inspection made by a court or judge, may be weighed in the sentence rendered by another judge, provided the former has set forth with perfect clearness in the proceedings the details and circumstances to the thing inspected.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1195. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-i/chapter-249/subchapter-iv/3321/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344)›Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344)›Subchapter IV - Expert Evidence (§§ 3321 — 3322)›... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344) › Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344) › Subchapter IV - Expert Evidence (§§ 3321 — 3322) › § 3321 - Use of expert evidence | This kind of evidence may only be made use of when, in order to weigh the facts, scientific, artistic, or practical knowledge is necessary or advisable.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1196. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-i/chapter-249/subchapter-iv/3322/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344)›Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344)›Subchapter IV - Expert Evidence (§§ 3321 — 3322)›... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344) › Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344) › Subchapter IV - Expert Evidence (§§ 3321 — 3322) › § 3322 - Value and form | The value of this evidence and the form in which it is to be given are the subjects of the provisions of the Law of Civil Procedure.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1197. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-i/chapter-249/subchapter-v/3331/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344)›Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344)›Subchapter V - Evidence of Witnesses (§§ 3331 — 3... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344) › Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344) › Subchapter V - Evidence of Witnesses (§§ 3331 — 3334) › § 3331 - Admissibility of evidence of w... | Evidence of witnesses shall be admissible, in all cases in which it should not have been expressly forbidden.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1198. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-i/chapter-249/subchapter-v/3332/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344)›Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344)›Subchapter V - Evidence of Witnesses (§§ 3331 — 3... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344) › Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344) › Subchapter V - Evidence of Witnesses (§§ 3331 — 3334) › § 3332 - Qualifications of witnesses | All persons, of either sex, who are not disqualified by natural incapacity or by the provisions of law, may be witnesses.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1199. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-i/chapter-249/subchapter-v/3333/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344)›Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344)›Subchapter V - Evidence of Witnesses (§§ 3331 — 3... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344) › Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344) › Subchapter V - Evidence of Witnesses (§§ 3331 — 3334) › § 3333 - Natural incapacity | The following are disqualified by natural incapacity:
(1) Lunatics or insane persons.
(2) The blind and deaf, in those things a knowledge of which depends upon sight and hearing.
(3) Minors under ten (10) years of age, who appear to be unable to receive exact impressions of facts on which they are examined, or to give ... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-i/chapter-249/subchapter-v/3334/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344)›Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344)›Subchapter V - Evidence of Witnesses (§§ 3331 — 3... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344) › Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344) › Subchapter V - Evidence of Witnesses (§§ 3331 — 3334) › § 3334 - Probative force of depositions... | The force of proof of depositions of witnesses shall be weighed by the courts in accordance with the provisions of the Law of Civil Procedure, taking care to avoid that, by the simple coincidence of some depositions, unless their truthfulness be evident, the affairs may be finally decided in which instruments, private ... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-i/chapter-249/subchapter-vi/3341/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344)›Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344)›Subchapter VI - Presumptions (§§ 3341 — 3344)›§ 3... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344) › Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344) › Subchapter VI - Presumptions (§§ 3341 — 3344) › § 3341 - Admissibility of presumptions | Presumptions are not admissible, except when the fact from which they are to be deduced is fully proven.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1202. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-i/chapter-249/subchapter-vi/3342/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344)›Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344)›Subchapter VI - Presumptions (§§ 3341 — 3344)›§ 3... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344) › Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344) › Subchapter VI - Presumptions (§§ 3341 — 3344) › § 3342 - Effect of presumptions established by ... | Presumptions established by law exempt those favored thereby from producing any further proof.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1203. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-i/chapter-249/subchapter-vi/3343/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344)›Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344)›Subchapter VI - Presumptions (§§ 3341 — 3344)›§ 3... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344) › Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344) › Subchapter VI - Presumptions (§§ 3341 — 3344) › § 3343 - Destruction of presumptions; res judic... | Presumptions established by law may be destroyed by proof to the contrary, except in the cases in which it is expressly prohibited.
Only a judgment obtained in a suit for revision shall be effective against the presumption of the truth of the res adjudicata.
In order that the presumption of the res adjudicata may be va... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-i/chapter-249/subchapter-vi/3344/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344)›Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344)›Subchapter VI - Presumptions (§§ 3341 — 3344)›§ 3... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART I - Obligations (§§ 2991 — 3344) › Chapter 249 - Proof of Obligations (§§ 3261 — 3344) › Subchapter VI - Presumptions (§§ 3341 — 3344) › § 3344 - Presumptions not established by law | In order that presumptions not established by law may be admitted as means of evidence, it is indispensable that between the fact demonstrated and the one it is desired to deduce there should exist a precise and direct connection according to the rules of human judgment.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1205. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-ii/chapter-253/3371/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525)›Chapter 253 - General Provisions (§§ 3371 — 3377)›§ 3371 - When contract exists | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 253 - General Provisions (§§ 3371 — 3377) › § 3371 - When contract exists | A contract exists from the moment one or more persons consent to bind himself or themselves, with regard to another or others, to give something or to render some service.
—Civil Code, 1930, § 1206.
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https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-ii/chapter-253/3372/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525)›Chapter 253 - General Provisions (§§ 3371 — 3377)›§ 3372 - Permissible clauses and conditions | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 253 - General Provisions (§§ 3371 — 3377) › § 3372 - Permissible clauses and conditions | The contracting parties may make the agreement and establish the clauses and conditions which they may deem advisable, provided they are not in contravention of law, morals, or public order.
—Civil Code, 1930, § 1207.
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https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-ii/chapter-253/3373/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525)›Chapter 253 - General Provisions (§§ 3371 — 3377)›§ 3373 - Validity and fulfilment | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 253 - General Provisions (§§ 3371 — 3377) › § 3373 - Validity and fulfilment | The validity and fulfilment of contracts cannot be left to the will of one of the contracting parties.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1208. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-ii/chapter-253/3374/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525)›Chapter 253 - General Provisions (§§ 3371 — 3377)›§ 3374 - Contracts valid as to parties and heirs; st... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 253 - General Provisions (§§ 3371 — 3377) › § 3374 - Contracts valid as to parties and heirs; stipulation in favor of third person | Contracts shall only be valid between the parties who execute them and their heirs, except, with regard to the latter, the case in which the rights and obligations arising from the contract are not transmissible, either by their nature, or by agreement, or by provision of law.
Should the contract contain any stipulatio... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-ii/chapter-253/3375/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525)›Chapter 253 - General Provisions (§§ 3371 — 3377)›§ 3375 - How contracts perfected | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 253 - General Provisions (§§ 3371 — 3377) › § 3375 - How contracts perfected | Contracts are perfected by mere consent, and from that time they are binding, not only with regard to the fulfilment of what has been expressly stipulated, but also with regard to all the consequences which, according to their character, are in accordance with good faith, use, and law.
—Civil Code, 1930, § 1210.
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https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-ii/chapter-253/3376/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525)›Chapter 253 - General Provisions (§§ 3371 — 3377)›§ 3376 - Contract in name of another | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 253 - General Provisions (§§ 3371 — 3377) › § 3376 - Contract in name of another | No one can contract in the name of another without being authorized by him or without having his legal representation according to law.
A contract executed in the name of another by one who has neither his authorization nor legal representation shall be void, unless it should be ratified by the person in whose name it ... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-ii/chapter-253/3377/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525)›Chapter 253 - General Provisions (§§ 3371 — 3377)›§ 3377 - Oaths not admissible | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 253 - General Provisions (§§ 3371 — 3377) › § 3377 - Oaths not admissible | Oaths shall not be admitted in contracts. If admitted, they shall be considered as not given.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1212. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-ii/chapter-255/subchapter-preliminary/3391/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525)›Chapter 255 - Requisites for Validity of Contracts (§§ 3391 — 3434)›Subchapter Preliminary - General P... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 255 - Requisites for Validity of Contracts (§§ 3391 — 3434) › Subchapter Preliminary - General Provisions (§ 3391) › § 3391 - Requisites of co... | There is no contract unless the following requisites exist:
(1) The consent of the contracting parties.
(2) A definite object which may be the subject of the contract.
(3) The cause for the obligation which may be established.
—Civil Code, 1930, § 1213.
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https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-ii/chapter-255/subchapter-i/3401/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525)›Chapter 255 - Requisites for Validity of Contracts (§§ 3391 — 3434)›Subchapter I - Consent (§§ 3401 — ... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 255 - Requisites for Validity of Contracts (§§ 3391 — 3434) › Subchapter I - Consent (§§ 3401 — 3409) › § 3401 - How consent shown; acceptance... | Consent is shown by the concurrence of the offer and acceptance of the thing and the cause which are to constitute the contract.
An acceptance made by letter does not bind the person making the offer, but from the time it came to his knowledge. The contract in such case is presumed as executed at the place where the of... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-ii/chapter-255/subchapter-i/3402/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525)›Chapter 255 - Requisites for Validity of Contracts (§§ 3391 — 3434)›Subchapter I - Consent (§§ 3401 — ... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 255 - Requisites for Validity of Contracts (§§ 3391 — 3434) › Subchapter I - Consent (§§ 3401 — 3409) › § 3402 - Who cannot give consent | The following persons cannot give consent:
(1) Minors who are not emancipated. However, minors between 18 and 21 years of age who are engaged in commerce or industry may carry out all civil acts for its administration, without requiring the consent of their parents.
(2) Lunatics or the insane, and the deaf and dumb who... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-ii/chapter-255/subchapter-i/3403/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525)›Chapter 255 - Requisites for Validity of Contracts (§§ 3391 — 3434)›Subchapter I - Consent (§§ 3401 — ... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 255 - Requisites for Validity of Contracts (§§ 3391 — 3434) › Subchapter I - Consent (§§ 3401 — 3409) › § 3403 - Modification of incapacity | The incapacity, mentioned in § 3402 of this title, is subject to the modifications which are determined by law and is understood without prejudice to the special disqualifications established by the same.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1216. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-ii/chapter-255/subchapter-i/3404/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525)›Chapter 255 - Requisites for Validity of Contracts (§§ 3391 — 3434)›Subchapter I - Consent (§§ 3401 — ... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 255 - Requisites for Validity of Contracts (§§ 3391 — 3434) › Subchapter I - Consent (§§ 3401 — 3409) › § 3404 - When consent void | Consent given by error, under violence, by intimidation, or deceit shall be void.
—Civil Code, 1930, § 1217.
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https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-ii/chapter-255/subchapter-i/3405/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525)›Chapter 255 - Requisites for Validity of Contracts (§§ 3391 — 3434)›Subchapter I - Consent (§§ 3401 — ... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 255 - Requisites for Validity of Contracts (§§ 3391 — 3434) › Subchapter I - Consent (§§ 3401 — 3409) › § 3405 - Error invalidating consent | In order that the error may invalidate the consent, it must refer to the substance of the thing, which may be the object of the contract, or to those conditions of the same, which should have been principally the cause of its execution.
An error with regard to the person shall invalidate a contract only when the consid... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-ii/chapter-255/subchapter-i/3406/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525)›Chapter 255 - Requisites for Validity of Contracts (§§ 3391 — 3434)›Subchapter I - Consent (§§ 3401 — ... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 255 - Requisites for Validity of Contracts (§§ 3391 — 3434) › Subchapter I - Consent (§§ 3401 — 3409) › § 3406 - Violence and intimidation | Violence exists when, in order to exact the consent, irresistible force is used.
Intimidation exists when one of the contracting parties is inspired with a reasonable and well-grounded fear of suffering an imminent and serious injury to his person or property, or to the person or property of the spouse, descendants, or... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-ii/chapter-255/subchapter-i/3407/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525)›Chapter 255 - Requisites for Validity of Contracts (§§ 3391 — 3434)›Subchapter I - Consent (§§ 3401 — ... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 255 - Requisites for Validity of Contracts (§§ 3391 — 3434) › Subchapter I - Consent (§§ 3401 — 3409) › § 3407 - Violence or intimidation by t... | Violence or intimidation shall annul the obligation, even if it should have been employed by a third person who did not take part in the contract.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1220. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-ii/chapter-255/subchapter-i/3408/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525)›Chapter 255 - Requisites for Validity of Contracts (§§ 3391 — 3434)›Subchapter I - Consent (§§ 3401 — ... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 255 - Requisites for Validity of Contracts (§§ 3391 — 3434) › Subchapter I - Consent (§§ 3401 — 3409) › § 3408 - Deceit | There is deceit when by words or insidious machinations on the part of one of the contracting parties the other is induced to execute a contract which without them he would not have made.
—Civil Code, 1930, § 1221.
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Incidental deceit renders the party who employed it liable to indemnify for losses and damages only.
—Civil Code, 1930, § 1222.
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Nevertheless, no contract may be executed with regard to future inheritances, except those the object of which is to make a division inter vivos of the estate, according to § 2875 of this title.
All services not contrar... |
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—Civil Code, 1930, § 1224.
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History —Civil Code, 1930, § 122... |
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—Civ... |
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—Civil Code, 1930, § 1227.
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History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1228. |
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History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1229. |
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History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1230. |
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(1) Acts and contracts the object of which is the creation, conveyance, modification, or extinction of rights on real property.
(2) Leases of the same property for six (6) or more years, provided they are to the prejudice of third persons.
(3) Contracts to govern proper... |
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If the words should appear contrary to the evident intention of the contracting parties, the intention shall prevail.
—Civil Code, 1930, § 1233.
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—Civil Code, 1930, § 1234.
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History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1235. |
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History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1236. |
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—Civil Code, 1930, § 1237.
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History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1238. |
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History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1239. |
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—Civil Code, 1930, § 1240.
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History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1242. |
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(1) The contracts which may be executed by guardians without the authorization of the competent part of the Court of First Instance, provided the persons they represent have suffered lesion of more than one-fourth (¼) part of the value of the things which may have been the object thereof... |
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History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1244. |
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History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1245. |
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History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1246. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-ii/chapter-261/3496/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525)›Chapter 261 - Rescission of Contracts (§§ 3491 — 3500)›§ 3496 - Return of objects of contract; possess... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 261 - Rescission of Contracts (§§ 3491 — 3500) › § 3496 - Return of objects of contract; possession by third persons; indemnity | Rescission obliges the return of the things which were the objects of the contract, with their fruits and the price with interest; therefore it can only be carried into effect when the person who may have claimed it can return that which, on his part, he is bound to do.
Neither shall rescission take place when the thin... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-ii/chapter-261/3497/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525)›Chapter 261 - Rescission of Contracts (§§ 3491 — 3500)›§ 3497 - Contract in representation of absentee... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 261 - Rescission of Contracts (§§ 3491 — 3500) › § 3497 - Contract in representation of absentee with judicial authorization | The rescission, referred to in number 2 of § 3492 of this title, shall not take place in contracts executed with judicial authorization.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1248. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-ii/chapter-261/3498/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525)›Chapter 261 - Rescission of Contracts (§§ 3491 — 3500)›§ 3498 - Contracts presumed in fraud of credito... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 261 - Rescission of Contracts (§§ 3491 — 3500) › § 3498 - Contracts presumed in fraud of creditors | Contracts by virtue of which the debtor alienates property, for a good consideration, are presumed to be executed in fraud of creditors.
Alienations for valuable considerations, made by persons against whom a condemnatory judgment, in any instance, has been previously rendered, or a writ of seizure of property has been... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-ii/chapter-261/3499/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525)›Chapter 261 - Rescission of Contracts (§§ 3491 — 3500)›§ 3499 - Indemnity to creditors by person acqui... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 261 - Rescission of Contracts (§§ 3491 — 3500) › § 3499 - Indemnity to creditors by person acquiring in bad faith | Any person who may have acquired in bad faith things alienated in fraud of creditors must indemnify the latter for the losses and damages caused to them by the alienation whenever, for any reason whatsoever, it should be impossible for him to return them.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1250. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-ii/chapter-261/3500/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525)›Chapter 261 - Rescission of Contracts (§§ 3491 — 3500)›§ 3500 - Prescription of action for rescission | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 261 - Rescission of Contracts (§§ 3491 — 3500) › § 3500 - Prescription of action for rescission | The action asking rescission must be brought within four (4) years.
For persons subject to guardianship and for absentees, the four (4) years shall not commence until the incapacity of the former has ceased to exist, or the domicile of the latter is known.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1251. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-ii/chapter-263/3511/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525)›Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525)›§ 3511 - When contracts may be annulled | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525) › § 3511 - When contracts may be annulled | Contracts containing the requisites mentioned in § 3391 of this title may be annulled, even when there should be no lesion to the contracting parties, whenever they contain any of the defects which invalidate them according to law.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1252. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-ii/chapter-263/3512/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525)›Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525)›§ 3512 - Prescription of action for nullity | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525) › § 3512 - Prescription of action for nullity | The action for nullity shall last four (4) years.
This term shall commence to run:
In cases of intimidation or violence from the day on which it has ceased;
in those of error or deceit or falsity of consideration, from the date of the consummation of the contract;
when the purpose of the action is to invalidate contrac... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-ii/chapter-263/3513/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525)›Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525)›§ 3513 - Who may bring action for nullity | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525) › § 3513 - Who may bring action for nullity | The action for nullity of contracts may be brought by those who are principally or subsidiarily obligated by virtue thereof. Persons with capacity cannot, however, allege the incapacity of those with whom they contracted; neither those who caused the intimidation or violence, or employed deceit, or caused the error, ca... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-ii/chapter-263/3514/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525)›Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525)›§ 3514 - Restoration of objects of contract | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525) › § 3514 - Restoration of objects of contract | When the nullity of an obligation has been declared, the contracting parties shall restore to each other the things which have been the object of the contract with their fruits, and the value with its interest, without prejudice to the provisions contained in the following sections.
—Civil Code, 1930, § 1255.
History |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-ii/chapter-263/3515/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525)›Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525)›§ 3515 - Restoration of objects of contract—Incapa... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525) › § 3515 - Restoration of objects of contract—Incapacity of party | When the nullity arises from the incapacity of one of the contracting parties, the incapacitated person is not obliged to make restitution, except to the extent he has profited by the thing or by the sum he may have received.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1256. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-ii/chapter-263/3516/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525)›Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525)›§ 3516 - Restoration of objects of contract—Illega... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525) › § 3516 - Restoration of objects of contract—Illegality constituting crime or misdemeanor | When the nullity arises from the illegality of the consideration or the object of the contract, if the fact constitutes a crime or misdemeanor common to both contracting parties, they shall have no action against each other and proceedings shall be instituted against them, and, furthermore, the things or sum which may ... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-ii/chapter-263/3517/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525)›Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525)›§ 3517 - Restoration of objects of contract—Illici... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525) › § 3517 - Restoration of objects of contract—Illicit consideration not crime or misdemeanor | If the fact of which the illicit consideration consists does not constitute either a crime or misdemeanor, the following rules shall be observed:
(1) When both parties are guilty, neither of them can recover what he may have given by virtue of the contract, nor claim the fulfilment of what the other party may have offe... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-ii/chapter-263/3518/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525)›Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525)›§ 3518 - Loss of thing ordered returned | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525) › § 3518 - Loss of thing ordered returned | Whenever a person, who is obliged by a declaration of nullity to return a thing, cannot return it because it has been lost, he must return the fruits collected and the value which the thing had when lost, with interest from the same date.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1259. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-ii/chapter-263/3519/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525)›Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525)›§ 3519 - Failure of party to return thing | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525) › § 3519 - Failure of party to return thing | While one of the contracting parties does not return that which he is obliged to deliver by virtue of the declaration of nullity, the other cannot be compelled to fulfill, on his part, what is incumbent on him.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1260. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-ii/chapter-263/3520/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525)›Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525)›§ 3520 - Extinction of action for nullity when con... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525) › § 3520 - Extinction of action for nullity when contract confirmed | The action of nullity is extinguished from the moment the contract may have been validly confirmed.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1261. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-ii/chapter-263/3521/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525)›Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525)›§ 3521 - Contracts which can be confirmed | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525) › § 3521 - Contracts which can be confirmed | Only contracts having all the requisites mentioned in section 3391 of this title can be confirmed.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1262. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-ii/chapter-263/3522/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525)›Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525)›§ 3522 - Express or implied confirmation | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525) › § 3522 - Express or implied confirmation | The confirmation can be made either expressly or in an implied manner. It shall be understood that there is an implied confirmation when, being aware of the cause of the nullity, and such cause having ceased to exist, the person who may have a right to invoke it should execute an act which necessarily implied his wish ... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-ii/chapter-263/3523/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525)›Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525)›§ 3523 - When consent of parties not required | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525) › § 3523 - When consent of parties not required | Confirmation does not require the consent of the contracting parties who are not entitled to exercise the action of nullity.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1264. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-ii/chapter-263/3524/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525)›Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525)›§ 3524 - Confirmation purges contract of defects | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525) › § 3524 - Confirmation purges contract of defects | Confirmation purges the contract of all defects which it may have contained from the moment of its execution.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1265. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-ii/chapter-263/3525/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525)›Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525)›§ 3525 - When action for nullity extinguished by l... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525) › § 3525 - When action for nullity extinguished by loss of thing | The action for nullity of a contract shall also be extinguished when the thing which is the object thereof should be lost by fraud or fault of the person having a right to bring the action.
If the cause of the action should be the incapacity of any of the contracting parties, the loss of the thing shall be no obstacle ... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-iii/chapter-267/3551/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717)›Chapter 267 - General Provisions (§§ 3551 — 3562)›§ 3551 -... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 267 - General Provisions (§§ 3551 — 3562) › § 3551 - Contracts as to conjugal partnership; absence... | Persons who may be joined in matrimony may, before celebrating it, execute contracts, stipulating the conditions for the conjugal partnership with regard to present and future property, without any other limitations than those mentioned in this title.
In the absence of contracts relating to property it shall be underst... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-iii/chapter-267/3552/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717)›Chapter 267 - General Provisions (§§ 3551 — 3562)›§ 3552 -... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 267 - General Provisions (§§ 3551 — 3562) › § 3552 - Stipulations forbidden | In the contracts referred to in the preceding section the contracting parties cannot stipulate anything contrary to law or morality, nor humiliating to the authority within the family pertaining respectively to the future spouses.
All stipulations not in accordance with the provisions of this section shall be considere... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-iii/chapter-267/3553/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717)›Chapter 267 - General Provisions (§§ 3551 — 3562)›§ 3553 -... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 267 - General Provisions (§§ 3551 — 3562) › § 3553 - Void stipulations | There shall also be considered as void and as not written in the contracts mentioned in the two preceding sections the stipulations by which the contracting parties in a general manner determine that the property of the spouses shall be submitted to the local laws and special customs and not to the general provisions o... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-iii/chapter-267/3554/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717)›Chapter 267 - General Provisions (§§ 3551 — 3562)›§ 3554 -... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 267 - General Provisions (§§ 3551 — 3562) › § 3554 - Marriage contracts of minors | A minor who can marry in accordance with law may also execute his marriage contract, but it shall be valid only when in its execution the persons designated by law to give consent to the minor to contract marriage take part therein.
In case the marriage contract should be void, because the concurrence and signature of ... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-iii/chapter-267/3555/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717)›Chapter 267 - General Provisions (§§ 3551 — 3562)›§ 3555 -... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 267 - General Provisions (§§ 3551 — 3562) › § 3555 - Changes in marriage contracts; attendance of ... | In order that any change in the marriage contract be valid it must be made before the celebration of the marriage and in the presence and with the concurrence of the persons who took part in the contract as contracting parties. The attendance of the same witnesses shall not be necessary.
Any of the persons who attended... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-iii/chapter-267/3556/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717)›Chapter 267 - General Provisions (§§ 3551 — 3562)›§ 3556 -... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 267 - General Provisions (§§ 3551 — 3562) › § 3556 - Changes after marriage forbidden | After the marriage has been celebrated, the marriage contract executed prior thereto cannot be changed, whether present or future property is involved.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1272. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-thirty-one/subtitle-4/part-iii/chapter-267/3557/ | 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 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305)›PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717)›Chapter 267 - General Provisions (§§ 3551 — 3562)›§ 3557 -... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 267 - General Provisions (§§ 3551 — 3562) › § 3557 - Public instrument required; exceptions | Marriage contracts and modifications made therein must be contained in a public instrument executed before the celebration of the marriage.
Property in the condition referred to in § 3560 of this title is excepted from the preceding rule.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1273. |
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