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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter I - Registration Procedure (§§ 2251 — 2282) › § 2251 - Registration—Persons who may register

A request for registration in the Registry may be made indiscriminately by:
(a) A person who acquires the right.
(b) A person who conveys the right.
(c) A person who is interested in securing the right to be registered.
(d) A person representing any of the above, it being deemed that the person who presents documents at the Registry for the purpose of applying for a registration, even though said person acts as the verbal agent of an interested party, shall be included. In the case of an agent, the name of the principal shall be noted in the Day Book.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 48; June 14, 1980, No. 143, p. 535.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter I - Registration Procedure (§§ 2251 — 2282) › § 2252 - Registration—Registrars, officials and employees; presentation of documents prohibited

Registrars, officials and other employees of the Registry shall not be allowed to present any document for registration in any section, unless it is included in one of the first three subsections of § 2251 of this title.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 49.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter I - Registration Procedure (§§ 2251 — 2282) › § 2253 - Registration—Notation in Day Book

The Registrar shall make a notation in the Day Book or electronic system of every title presented at the Registry for its registration or annotation, even though he/she may believe that the title to be presented lacks some legal requirement.
The notation pertaining to the physical or electronic presentation shall state the mailing and electronic address of the authorizing notary. All notices from the Registrar to the notary shall be sent to the electronic address from the sections in which the information system is available or by regular mail in case the latter is not available. The notary shall be duty bound to keep the Registry informed of any change in his/her mailing or electronic address.
From the date of effectiveness of this act, the presenter of a document shall include with the document to be presented, a self-addressed and pre-stamped postcard stating the name and address of the person to be notified of the registration of the document. The person notified shall have a term of thirty (30) days to retrieve the document or documents in question. After said term has elapsed, the Secretary of Justice or the person on whom the latter delegates may proceed to conduct the final disposal of the document.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 50; June 14, 1980, No. 143, p. 535; Feb. 17, 2000, No. 48, § 13; Sept. 23, 2004, No. 444, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter I - Registration Procedure (§§ 2251 — 2282) › § 2254 - Registration—Withdrawal or recovery of documents before or after registration

The presenter of the documents, the bearer of the presentation receipt, a representative of the presenter, the party in whose favor the registration of the right has been requested or the authorizing notary or any member of the law firm to which the latter belongs, may withdraw said documents before they are registered or once they have been registered.
With regard to the preceding paragraph, when there are documents that have been subsequently presented that may be adversely affected by the withdrawal, it shall be necessary to record the notarized consent of the person who may rightfully withdraw the documents.
The persons mentioned in the first paragraph of this section or any person, who in the judgment of the Registrar may have an interest in the document, may retrieve the registered document.
With regard to the documents presented by electronic means, the Secretary shall establish the standards for their withdrawal or devolution through the same means in the operating regulations.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 51; Feb. 17, 2000, No. 48, § 14; Sept. 23, 2004, No. 444, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter I - Registration Procedure (§§ 2251 — 2282) › § 2255 - Recording of documents; term; entry of presentation; expiration of interruption

The documents shall be registered within sixty (60) days following their presentation, or after correcting any errors that may have been indicated, or after filing the requalification writ, except for just cause that is duly justified and admitted by the Director. Within the same term the errors shall be notified and action shall be taken regarding the defective titles pursuant to § 2272 of this title.
The term of the entry of presentation shall expire sixty (60) days from the indicated defect of the document presented. Nevertheless, said term shall be interrupted when any of the following situations occur within said term:
1st. The notified defect is corrected as provided in § 2272 of this title;
2nd. The reconsideration petition provided in § 2273 of this title is filed with the Registrar;
3rd. A sixty (60) day cautionary notice is made, as provided in § 2274 of this title;
4th. There is an administrative appeal, as provided in § 2279 of this title.
The Registrar shall enter an interruption of the term, as well as its expiration date, with a dated note in the margin of the presentation entry in the Day Book or the electronic system of presentation.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 52; Feb. 17, 2000, No. 48, § 15, eff. 90 days after Feb. 17, 2000.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter I - Registration Procedure (§§ 2251 — 2282) › § 2256 - Registered titles, effectiveness for third parties; two or more registrations of same property, determination of preference

Registered titles shall become effective for third parties from the date of their registration. For all intents and purposes, the registration date, including the determination of the term needed for cancellation of entries, must appear in the registration itself.
In order to determine preference between two or more registrations of the same property, attention shall be given to the date, hour and presentation number of the respective titles in the Registry.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 53.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter I - Registration Procedure (§§ 2251 — 2282) › § 2257 - Reservation of priority—Procedure; requirement of application

Priority may be reserved for a contract being negotiated, which may affect a recorded right, at the request by a notary public to the Registrar, provided there is notarized proof of the consent of the owners of the registered right.
Application for a priority reservation shall be addressed to the Registrar in a document signed, sealed and flourished by the applying notary, in which shall appear:
First:— The name and address of the applying notary.
Second:— The name of the titleholder of record, subject to the contract being negotiated.
Third:— The designation of the parties in the contract being negotiated.
Fourth:— An adequate description of the right and of the real property involved and their identification in the Registry.
Fifth:— The nature, scope and conditions of the real right to be recorded.
The requirements an application to reserve a priority must contain shall be strictly complied with, and when presented, may not be corrected. If the Registrar finds the application properly made, he shall make a note to such effect in the margin of the presentation entry and on the folio for the property. If, on the contrary, he should find an error or omission in the application, he shall flatly reject it, making a note to that effect in the margin of the presentation entry, leaving the interested party with only one recourse, that of filing an appeal of the Registrar’s decision, in accordance with the provisions of this subtitle.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 54.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter I - Registration Procedure (§§ 2251 — 2282) › § 2258 - Reservation of priority—Granting of title; term

A title with a priority reservation must be granted within twenty days after the date on which the reservation application was made, and shall be presented at the Registry within 25 days from the same date. When these requirements are met, the date of presentation of the title shall be understood to be that of the priority reservation, and other titles which may have been presented after the reservation shall be judged accordingly. The title must contain the number of the presentation entry and the number of the reservation application in the Day Book. The Registrar shall make a note of the presentation of the title in the margin of the presentation entry of the application for reservation.
If the title is granted or if it is presented outside of the terms prescribed in this section, the reservation applied for cannot prevail and it shall be considered granted on the date it was presented.
The priority reservation shall expire 25 days after the application is presented, and the term cannot be extended.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 55; June 14, 1980, No. 143, p. 535.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter I - Registration Procedure (§§ 2251 — 2282) › § 2259 - Preventive recording or entry; effect

When any document recorded or entered preventively in the Registry constitutes, conveys, modifies or extinguishes real property rights, no other document may be recorded with the same or an earlier date which may be contrary to or incompatible with it which conveys or encumbers said property.
If only the presentation entry has been made, no other title of the aforementioned kind may be recorded or annotated during the time said presentation entry is in effect; and in all cases, adherence shall be made to what is resolved on the registry status of the title that is presented first.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 56.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter I - Registration Procedure (§§ 2251 — 2282) › § 2260 - Recording of documents—Generally; prior requirements; exceptions

In order to record documents that declare, convey, encumber, modify or extinguish dominion and other real rights on real property, the right of the person who grants them or in whose name the referred transactions or contracts are granted must appear previously recorded.
Registration shall be refused if the right is recorded in the name of a person other than the one who is granting the conveyance or lien. However, resolutions and judgments referred to in §§ 2761—2777 of this title may be recorded without the previous registration requirement.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 57.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter I - Registration Procedure (§§ 2251 — 2282) › § 2261 - Recording of documents—Heirs and legatees; prior requirements

Heirs and legatees may not record real property or real rights in their own names unless they have been previously recorded or unless, at the same time, they request the registration of the title from the decedent’s estate.
No deed of partition of a decedent’s estate or a conveyance or a lien on inheritance rights shall be recorded if the hereditary right does not appear recorded previously in the heirs’ names.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 58.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter I - Registration Procedure (§§ 2251 — 2282) › § 2262 - Recording of documents—Eminent domain procedures

In government eminent domain procedures in which the title to the property or right to expropriate does not appear recorded in the Registry, those unknown persons who may have an interest in the property or right subject to this action must also be included as defendants, and the decisions handed down by the court, conferring property title to the expropriator, must be subject to a first original entry with no limitations other than those contained in the court’s own resolutions or the laws in force.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 59.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter I - Registration Procedure (§§ 2251 — 2282) › § 2263 - Recording of documents—Property recorded in name of predecessor in title

Property recorded in the name of the predecessor in title does not need to be recorded in the name of agents, representatives, liquidators, executors and other persons who are temporarily acting as mediators authorized by law.
Nor is there a need to record property in the names of the heirs when ratifying private contracts made by their predecessors in title, provided they are in writing and signed by the latter, which shall be recorded along with the ratification document. In any case, the nature of the heirs must be verified.
Prevailing records of hereditary rights in the name of one or all of the person’s heirs shall not impede registration in the name of those who may have acquired ownership of real property or rights directly from the predecessor in title by virtue of an authentic title granted by him, or his legitimate agents or representatives.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 60.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter I - Registration Procedure (§§ 2251 — 2282) › § 2264 - Recording of documents—Content of documents subject to registration

Documents relating to transactions or contracts subject to registration shall, at least, contain all the information which the original entry must necessarily contain and relate to grantors, to property and to rights subject to registration.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 61.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter I - Registration Procedure (§§ 2251 — 2282) › § 2265 - Recording of documents—Real property or rights not described individually; procedure for registration

Titleholders of real property or real rights by virtue of any universal or singular title, who are not indicated and described individually, may make their registration by presenting said title along with a document, when applicable, proving a conveyance was made to them and by justifying by means of any other authentic document that the property they are trying to record is included in the document.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 62.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter I - Registration Procedure (§§ 2251 — 2282) › § 2266 - Recording of documents—Notaries; responsibility for mistakes; compensation

The notary or official who, by mistake, causes an omission which impedes the registration of a transaction or contract in accordance with the provisions of this subtitle shall immediately make the correction upon demand, issuing a new document at his own expense, if possible, and compensating the interested parties for the damages caused by his mistake, in every case.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 63.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter I - Registration Procedure (§§ 2251 — 2282) › § 2267 - Judgment on documents

Registrars shall have the responsibility of passing judgment on the legality of all kinds of documents by virtue of which an entry is requested. Said judgment shall include the extrinsic forms of the documents presented, the competence of the grantors and the validity of the transactions and contracts contained in these documents. Registrars shall base their judgments on the transactions and contracts to be recorded, on the documents presented, the existing registry entries and the statutes.
When judging documents subject to registration, Registrars are not empowered to evaluate the legality of the judgments or entries made by themselves or by their predecessors. These entries, as well as the transactions recorded, must be deemed valid until the courts declare them null and void.
With respect to documents issued by Judicial Authority, said judgment shall be limited to:
(1) The jurisdiction and competence of the court; the nature and effects of the decision handed down if it was rendered in the corresponding trial; and if the procedures and precepts essential to its validity were observed;
(2) the extrinsic reliability of the documents presented, and
(3) the Registry data.
Where administrative documents are concerned, the judgment shall refer, insofar as it is pertinent, to the particulars set forth in the preceding paragraph.
In all cases, the Registrar may demand that complementary documents needed for a proper judgment be furnished, whether they be notarial, judicial or administrative.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 64.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter I - Registration Procedure (§§ 2251 — 2282) › § 2268 - Judgment on documents—Autonomy of registrar; recourse against judgment

The Registrar shall have autonomy in his judging powers and there shall be only one lawful recourse against his judgment, which is outlined in the following sections, so that the courts or other authorities cannot, in any way, oblige or prevent a Registrar from performing any function pertaining to the registration process.
Interested parties may argue, among themselves and in a plenary suit, anything concerning the validity of the documents subject to recording and obtain the corresponding cautionary notice to protect the suit being presented in accordance with the first paragraph of § 2401 of this title.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 65.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter I - Registration Procedure (§§ 2251 — 2282) › § 2269 - Judgment on documents—Passing judgment on documents of relatives or professional clients prohibited

Registrars may not pass judgment on documents of any kind that are submitted to them when they, or their spouses or relatives within the fourth degree of consanguinity or second in affinity, or persons who may have been their clients in matters to which these documents may refer, have any interest in the documents. In this respect, the attesting notary shall be considered an interested party.
The Registrar who is designated at the time, according to the provisions in § 2103 of this title, shall pass judgment and issue said documents.
The provisions in this section shall not apply to entries made in the Day Book.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 66.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter I - Registration Procedure (§§ 2251 — 2282) › § 2270 - Judgment on documents—Purpose

The judgment made by the Registrar of the documents presented shall be for the sole purpose of granting or refusing the registration, notation, note or cancellation requested, and shall not prevent or prejudge the legal proceedings which may be filed later on in court concerning the validity of the documents judged, with the Registrar’s having to abide by whatever is decided.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 67.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter I - Registration Procedure (§§ 2251 — 2282) › § 2271 - Judgments on documents—Defects which impede registration

The following are defects which shall impede the registration of the title presented:
(1) Those causing the nonexistence of the act or contract to be recorded or the nullity or annullability thereof, or that of the document presented.
(2) Those arising from Registry obstacles.
(3) Those based on the provisions of this subtitle.
(4) Failure to present the necessary complementary documents or failure to verify compliance with the legal requirements.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 68; June 14, 1980, No. 143, p. 535.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter I - Registration Procedure (§§ 2251 — 2282) › § 2272 - Judgment on documents—Notice of judgment; contents and procedure

If the Registrar finds a defect in the document, exclusively in accordance with § 2271 of this title, he/she shall notify the presenters and the authorizing notary, in writing, of his/her judgment, if it is so requested in the entry, within sixty (60) days of the date of said entry, either by hand delivery or by mail, or electronically, so that they may correct the defect within a period of sixty (60) days from the date of the notice. If more than one notice were made, the term shall start counting after the last one made to the notary.
The notice must contain all the legal grounds on which the judgment is based. The notice shall be recorded with a dated notation in the presentation entry and at the bottom of the document being notified with the signature of the Registrar and, when this is done, it shall be valid.
If the defect is not corrected before the expiration of the sixty (60) -day period, the Registrar shall make a note of the expiration in the presentation entry and at the bottom of the document. When the fees paid upon presentation of the document whose notice has expired do not exceed two hundred dollars ($200), the Registrar shall cancel twenty-five dollars ($25); when the fees paid upon presentation exceed two hundred dollars ($200), the Registrar shall cancel fifty dollars ($50).
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 69; Aug. 10, 1988, No. 159, p. 687; Dec. 14, 1997, No. 146, § 1; Feb. 17, 2000, No. 48, § 16, eff. 90 days after Feb. 17, 2000.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter I - Registration Procedure (§§ 2251 — 2282) › § 2273 - Judgment on documents—Reconsideration; request; contents and time for presentation; judgment admitted

Regardless of the provisions in § 2272 of this title, a presenter or interested party who is not satisfied with the judgment rendered by the Registrar may, within a non-extendable term of twenty (20) days following the date of notification, personally or electronically deliver a letter to the Registrar, or send it by certified mail, in which he requests a reconsideration, stating his objections to the judgment, the grounds on which he bases his appeal, and specifying what interests him.
Once the twenty (20) days have elapsed, the defects pointed out by the Registrar shall be deemed to be admitted.
If the Registrar’s judgment is admitted in accordance with what is provided in the preceding paragraph, and the interested party should attempt to correct the defects indicated within the term granted in § 2272 of this title, only an administrative appeal of the denial may be made to determine whether or not the defects pointed out were corrected.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 70; Feb. 17, 2000, No. 48, § 17, eff. 90 days after Feb. 17, 2000.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter I - Registration Procedure (§§ 2251 — 2282) › § 2274 - Judgment on documents—Judgment upheld despite reconsideration request; denial of registration; cautionary notice

Should the Registrar decide to uphold his original judgment after receiving the application for reconsideration, he shall refuse the registration applied for, within a term of thirty (30) days, and shall instead enter a cautionary notice on the affected property, in which he shall state the legal grounds for the annotation, which must be the same as those contained in the notification of the judgment. This cautionary notice shall expire sixty (60) days after its date of issue.
The refusal shall be notified on that same date in the manner stated in § 2272 of this title, and shall appear in the entry of presentation and at the bottom of the document or in the information system.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 71; Feb. 17, 2000, No. 48, § 18, eff. 90 days after Feb. 17, 2000.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter I - Registration Procedure (§§ 2251 — 2282) › § 2275 - Registration—Correction of defects; procedure and effect

In cases such as those outlined in the preceding sections, if the defects are corrected after the presentation entry has expired, a new entry shall be made which shall become effective from the date of the new entry.
When the defects which are grounds for the provisional notation are corrected within the time allotted, a new presentation shall be made to change the cautionary notice into a final registration which shall become effective on the date of the first presentation. In this case, entries of contradictory deeds made after the notation will be automatically cancelled.
Should the defects be corrected after the expiration of the cautionary notice, a new presentation shall be made which shall become effective on the date of the new entry.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 72.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter I - Registration Procedure (§§ 2251 — 2282) › § 2276 - Presentation entries; effective date; interruption and effect

Any interruption in the effective date of the presentation entries for any of the reasons established in § 2255 of this title shall imply an interruption of the effective date of the duly notified presentation entries of documents submitted later, since their registration depends on the former.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 73.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter I - Registration Procedure (§§ 2251 — 2282) › § 2277 - Incomplete document; notice and procedure

Whenever a document is presented inadvertently without having fully consigned the rights which cancel the registration or transaction to be made the Registrar shall make a notification to this effect and then follow the procedure provided in this subtitle for defective documents.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 74.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter I - Registration Procedure (§§ 2251 — 2282) › § 2278 - Documents revealing possibility of crime; notification procedures

Whenever the content of any document reveals the possibility that a crime has been committed, the Registrar shall notify the District Attorney, the presenter and the notary, in writing. Notwithstanding said notification, the procedures established in this subtitle shall be followed with respect to said documents.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 75; June 14, 1980, No. 143, p. 535.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter I - Registration Procedure (§§ 2251 — 2282) › § 2279 - Final judgment refusing entry—Appeal; prior requirement

Any interested party may file an appeal in the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico to prevent a Registrar from making a final determination refusing the entry requested. Nevertheless, an appeal may not be filed by anyone who has not filed the writ provided in § 2273 of this title, requesting a reconsideration of the determination, in due time.
An interested party may also file an administrative appeal when, after having recorded the title presented, the Registrar refuses to admit the full value and legal effect of the title to the entry as requested.
In those final judgments in which the registry defect is based upon any defect of form the authorizing notary is hereby legally authorized to file an administrative appeal. In any case, the notary shall comply with the provisions established in § 2266 of this title.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 76; June 14, 1980, No. 143, p. 535; Nov. 1, 2007, No. 152, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter I - Registration Procedure (§§ 2251 — 2282) › § 2280 - Final judgment refusing entry—Term for filing appeal; contents; procedure

An interested party may file an administrative appeal of the Registrar’s determination in the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico within a nonextensible period of 20 days from the notice of refusal, and shall simultaneously notify the Registrar thereof by certified mail along with a copy of the appeal filed. Said appeal may not include objections to the Registrar’s determination of the document that was not included when he filed the writ requesting the reconsideration thereof. If the appeal has not been filed within the term granted, the refusal shall be admitted for all legal purposes.
Within five days of receipt of said notice from the interested party, the Registrar must send the qualified document by hand or by certified mail to the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, accompanied by the initial letter requesting reconsideration and shall make a note of the filing of said appeal in the margin of the cautionary notice of refusal.
The Registrar shall send his reply to the appealer’s allegations to the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, pursuant to said court’s regulations, within 20 days after their receipt.
The expiration date of the presentation entry or of the cautionary notice, as the case may be, shall be extended from the date on which the appeal is filed to the date of its final resolution.
The Registrar is obliged to include in his decision all of the grounds for refusing the requested entry. If this has not been done and the document is presented again, or its recording is permitted in the corresponding administrative appeal, he may allege that there were errors not found in the former decision; but in that event, he may be corrected disciplinary, if in order, according to the circumstances of the case.
If the Registrar has refused to record a document, after 10 days have elapsed from the notice of refusal and no one has picked up the documents, and before the term expires for the party interested in recording to appeal, he may submit the refused document to the Supreme Court along with the reconsideration letter and an allegation supporting his action, all of which shall be notified to the interested party. The interested party shall have 10 days from notice of the appeal to present his allegation. In this case, all the provisions of this subtitle regarding appeals of the Registrar’s decision and their effects shall apply.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 77; June 14, 1980, No. 143, p. 535.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter I - Registration Procedure (§§ 2251 — 2282) › § 2281 - Final judgment refusing entry—Confirmation or revocation by Supreme Court

The Supreme Court shall determine whatever it deems lawful and, consequently, shall decide whether to confirm or revoke the Registrar’s judgment.
The Supreme Court may ask the Registrar concerned to send a certification of any entries and documents related to the matter that are kept in the Registry.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 78.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter I - Registration Procedure (§§ 2251 — 2282) › § 2282 - Final judgment refusing entry—New presentation after confirmation or refusal not appealed; procedure

If a document is presented again after the Supreme Court’s resolution confirming the refusal is final, it shall be returned without taking any action even though another person submits it, unless the defects which motivated the refusal have been corrected. The procedure shall be the same when the refusal is not appealed, but the document is presented again by the same interested party, as defined in § 2251 of this title.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 79; June 14, 1980, No. 143, p. 535.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter II - Form of Recording (§§ 2301 — 2321) › § 2301 - Entries; kinds

The following types of entries shall be made in the Registry books and information systems: presentations, registrations, cautionary notices, cancellations and notations.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 80; Feb. 17, 2000, No. 48, § 19, eff. 90 days after Feb. 17, 2000.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter II - Form of Recording (§§ 2301 — 2321) › § 2302 - First registration—Ownership

The first registration of each property in the Registry shall be that of ownership. The titleholder of any real right imposed on a property whose owner has not recorded his ownership may request registration of his right in accordance with the provisions of this subtitle.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 81.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter II - Form of Recording (§§ 2301 — 2321) › § 2303 - First registration—Correlative and different numbers; registration under same number

Each property that is registered for the first time shall be distinguished by a distinct and correlative number. The entries which refer to the same property shall also have special correlative numbering.
The following shall be recorded under the same number:
(1) The foundations and the buildings of structures which are constructed on them pursuant to the legal provision in force, even when the public lands on which the foundations are laid are not recorded in the Registry.
(2) Administrative concessions referring to real estate or real rights.
The following shall be registered separately, with a different number:
(1) Buildings, when the recorded properties where they are located belong to different owners and, likewise, the rooms or floors of a building.
(2) Pursuant to the provisions in special laws on the subject, the different floors, parts of floors or apartments capable of separate ownership in the same building, known as horizontal property, as well as the housing units under the member-owner cooperative housing regime.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 82; Sept. 1, 2004, No. 239, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter II - Form of Recording (§§ 2301 — 2321) › § 2304 - Qualified real rights; easements

Qualified real rights, those insuring collateral and any lien or limitation of ownership or real rights in general, must appear recorded on the property or right to which they apply, to give constructive notice thereof.
Real easements must also appear with a note in the registration of the dominant estate as a peculiarity thereof.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 83; June 14, 1980, No. 143, p. 535.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter II - Form of Recording (§§ 2301 — 2321) › § 2305 - Prohibitions as to disposal or alienation; standards

Prohibitions as to disposal or alienation shall appear in the Property Registry and shall become effective pursuant to the following norms:
1st. Those established by law which have full legal validity without express judicial or administrative declaration shall not need separate and special registration and shall be effective as legal limitations of ownership.
2nd. Those which owe their immediate origin to a judicial or administrative resolution shall be subject to cautionary notices.
3rd. Those imposed by the testator or donor in acts or provisions of last will, marriage contracts, donations and other gratuitous transactions shall be recordable, providing existing legislation recognizes their validity.
4th. Prohibitions as to disposal which do not originate in transactions or contracts described in the preceding numbers shall not have access to the Registry, without preventing that compliance be insured by a mortgage or any other type of real guarantee.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 84.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter II - Form of Recording (§§ 2301 — 2321) › § 2307 - Joining or attaching properties; requirements

In order to be able to join or attach properties in accordance with the preceding section, they must belong to a single titleholder or to the same titleholders if there are several of them in common pro indiviso.
The following may be grouped as a single property and under the same number:
(1) Abutting portions of land, whether they are improved or not.
(2) Any agricultural or industrial development which forms an organic unit or a body of united or interdependent properties, even though it may be composed of nonabutting properties.
(3) Properties which, even though they are not abutting, are connected with a horizontal property structure so that as common elements and inseparable annexes they may render services to the apartments or be used for the building’s maintenance, causing said joined real property subject to the legal rules for horizontal property as voluntary, general or limited common elements, as the case may be.
(4) The apartment and that portion used as a parking area for said apartment in a horizontal property building.
(5) Properties which, even though not abutting, are connected to a building or property under a member-owner cooperative housing regime, so that as common elements and inseparable annexes they may render services to the property or be used for maintenance, causing said joined real property to be common elements subject to the legal regime of said cooperative.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 86; June 14, 1980, No. 143, p. 535; Sept. 1, 2004, No. 239, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter II - Form of Recording (§§ 2301 — 2321) › § 2309 - Contracts involving price; deferred payments

When recording contracts in which a price is involved, the one in the document shall be recorded.
Deferred payments shall be recorded in the Registry when failure to pay is due to an expressed resolutory condition. Should the deferment of payment be guaranteed by some real right, the latter shall not be stated unless registration of this right is requested. In both cases, if the deferred price refers to the conveyance of two or more properties, the one corresponding to each of them shall be specified. The same rules shall apply to permutations or adjudications in payment when one of the parties might have to pay the balance to the other, in money or in kind.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 88.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter II - Form of Recording (§§ 2301 — 2321) › § 2310 - Sale of real estate or real rights; documents required for new registration

Whenever, in accordance with the preceding section, in the sale of real estate or real rights there is a stipulation that, on failure to pay the price on the date agreed upon, the termination of contract may take place lawfully and so appear in the Registry, it shall be necessary, in order to make the new registration in the name of the seller or his successor, to present the deed in which the buyer or third-party owner so accepts, or the judicial or notarial notification made out to the buyer by the seller should the sale be annulled, with the seller’s title attached.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 89.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter II - Form of Recording (§§ 2301 — 2321) › § 2311 - Extension of recorded right; new registration

The extension of any recorded right shall be subject to a new registration in which reference shall be made to the right being extended.
Mortgage registrations shall state the amount of the secured loans and the rate of interest and amounts indicated for expenses, attorney’s fees and court costs, if they were stipulated.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 90.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter II - Form of Recording (§§ 2301 — 2321) › § 2312 - Cession of real rights; recording necessary

The cession of any real right shall be recorded.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 91.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter II - Form of Recording (§§ 2301 — 2321) › § 2313 - Unsegregated parts of property; precise expression in aliquot portions

Registration of unsegregated parts of a property or right shall specify the aliquot portion of each co-owner in mathematical terms expressed in percentages or fractions.
If the specification is only made with reference to monetary units, area measurements or other analogous forms, this requirement shall not be considered complied with.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 92.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 4 - Mortgage and Property Registry Act of 1979; General Provisions (§§ 2001 — 2821) › Chapter 111 - Form and Effect of Registration (§§ 2251 — 2361) › Subchapter II - Form of Recording (§§ 2301 — 2321) › § 2314 - Urban development of property; segregation; requirements for recording

No segregation whatsoever may be recorded in the case of any urban development of a property without first presenting the documents in which the lots set aside for common or public use are segregated and in which the dimensions of the rest of the area set aside for these purposes is stated in accordance with the plans and specifications approved and recorded in the Registry of Plats.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 93.