Case Name: Gómez, Appellant, v. Registar of Guayama, Respondent
Court: Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
Jurisdiction: Puerto Rico
Decision Date: 1918-03-30
Citations: 26 P.R. 223
Docket Number: No. 354
Parties: Gómez, Appellant, v. Registar of Guayama, Respondent.
Judges: Chief Justice Hernández and Justices Wolf, del Toro and Aldrey concurred.
Reporter: Puerto Rico Reports
Volume: 26
Pages: 223–223

Head Matter:
Gómez, Appellant, v. Registar of Guayama, Respondent.
Appeal from, a Decision of the Registrar of Property Refusing to Record a Cancellation of Mortgage.
No. 354.
Decided March 30, 1918.
Cancellation of Mortgage — Alienation.—An instrument of cancellation presented in the registry, together with a power of attorney executed by a wife in favor of her husband and authorizing him, among other things, to alienate community property, should not be refused admission to record, for the cancellation of a mortgage is an alienation.
The facts are stated in the opinion.
Messrs. Francis & Arnaldo. for the appellant.
The respondent did not appear.

Opinion:
Me. Justice Hutchison
delivered the opinion of the court.
After a refusal to record a cancellation of mortgage and the entry of a cautionary notice, appellant, for the purpose of converting such entry into a permanent record, again presented the instrument of cancellation, together with a power of attorney therein referred to, executed by a wife in favor of her husband and authorizing him, among other things, to alienate community property.
The endorsement of the registrar, in so far as pertinent, reads as follows:
"The requested conversion of cautionary notice letter A of property No. 1617 appearing at folio 104 (over) of Vol. 32 of this city is not made because the power of attorney No. 70 executed on July 7, 1904, before Notary José Mariano Capó, now tendered in its entirety, contains no clause authorizing the cancellation of mortgages."
The cancellation of a mortgage is an alienation. Baquero v. Registrar, 22 P. R. R. 22.
See also Gutiérrez v. Registrar, 24 P. R. R. 819.
The ruling of the registrar must be
Reversed.
Chief Justice Hernández and Justices Wolf, del Toro and Aldrey concurred.