Case ID: pr_22/html/0274-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Audrey", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Monge, Appellant, v. The Registrar of Guayama, Respondent.
    Appeal from a Decision of the Registrar of Property Denying Admission to Record of a Deed of Assignment of a Mortgage Credit.
    No. 223.
    Decided April 6, 1915.
    Record op Title — Conveyance or Encumbrance oe Real Property Rights— Previous Record. — Article 20 of the Mortgage Law provides that in order that the registrar may admit to record deeds conveying or encumbering the ownership or possession of real property or property rights, the interest of the person executing the conveyance or encumbrance, or in whose name it is executed, must first appear of record.
    
      Id. — ^Previous Record — Mortgage Credit — Cancellation oe Mortgage.' — A registrar cannot record a title such as a deed of assignment of a mortgage credit when the interest sought to be recorded has been discharged and canceled and does not appear of record in the registry.
    The facts are stated in the opinion.
    
      Mr. Salvador Picornell for the appellant.
    Mr. Felipe Cuchí Axnau, the registrar, did not appear.
   Mr. Justice Audrey

delivered the opinion of the court.

By a public deed of January 19, 1915, executed before Notary Salvador Picornell' Cardona, Félix Dumas and Francisco Vargas G-arcia, jointly with their respective wives, assigned to Domingo Monge Hernandez the first two instal-ments of a mortgage debt created in favor of Pedro Vire'lla IJribe which they had acquired at a judicial sale, and upon presentation of the said deed of assignment of mortgage credit in the registry of property on February 2, 1915, the registrar refused to admit the. same to record for the reasons stated in his subjoined decision, which reads as follows:

“Admission to record of the foregoing document is denied because the instalments assigned appear to have been paid and canceled by deeds of acquittance and cancellation executed before Notary D. Miguel Z&valeta, in G-uayama, on April 11, 1910, and June 1, 1911, the said cancellations having been recorded in this registry on October 6, 1914, by a marginal note to record seven of property No. 395 on the reverse side of page 35 of volume 9 of Arroyo.”

From this decision the present administrative appeal was duly taken, but no brief has been filed for the purpose of showing the grounds on which appellant relies for a reversal of the registrar’s decision.

The record shows clearly that when on February 2, 1915, Domingo Monge Hernández presented his deed in the registry of property for record the instalments of the mortgage credit assigned to him had already been paid and canceled by public instruments dated April 11, 1910, and June 1, 1911, and the cancellation appeared recorded in the registry since October 6, 1914, therefore we must hold that the respondent registrar acted correctly in refusing to admit the deed to record. Article 20 of the Mortgage Law provides that in order that the registrar may admit to record or entry deeds conveying or encumbering the ownership or possession of real property or property rights, the interest of the person executing the conveyance or encumbrance, or in whose name it is executed, must first appear of record; and as the right sought to be recorded had been satisfied and canceled in the registry previously, the registrar was unable to record the deed presented.

The decision appealed from should be

Affirmed.

Chief Justice Hernández and Justices Wolf, del Toro and Hutchison concurred.