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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 223 - Intestate Succession (§§ 2591 — 2626) › Subchapter II - Relationship (§§ 2601 — 2609) › § 2605 - Computation of degrees—Application in all matters

The computation of which the foregoing section treats governs without exception in all matters.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 882.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 223 - Intestate Succession (§§ 2591 — 2626) › Subchapter II - Relationship (§§ 2601 — 2609) › § 2606 - Whole blood relationship

Whole blood relationship is the relation in the father’s and mother’s line at the same time.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 883.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 223 - Intestate Succession (§§ 2591 — 2626) › Subchapter II - Relationship (§§ 2601 — 2609) › § 2607 - Nearest relative excludes more remote; relatives in same degree

In inheritances the relative nearest in degree excludes the most remote excepting the right of representation in proper cases.
Relatives who are in the same degree shall inherit in equal shares, with the exception of what is provided in § 2674 of this title with regard to whole blood relationship.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 884.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 223 - Intestate Succession (§§ 2591 — 2626) › Subchapter II - Relationship (§§ 2601 — 2609) › § 2608 - Disposition of portion of relative unwilling or unable to succeed

Should there be several relatives in the same degree, and one or more of them should not wish to or could not succeed, his portion shall accrue to the others of the same degree, reserving the right of representation in a proper case.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 885.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 223 - Intestate Succession (§§ 2591 — 2626) › Subchapter II - Relationship (§§ 2601 — 2609) › § 2609 - Disposition of inheritance repudiated by nearest relative

If the inheritance is repudiated by the nearest relative should there be one only, or by all the nearest relatives, designated by law, should there be several, those of the following degree shall inherit in their own right, without being able to represent those repudiating the inheritance.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 886.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 223 - Intestate Succession (§§ 2591 — 2626) › Subchapter III - Representation (§§ 2621 — 2626) › § 2621 - Right of representation defined

The right which all the legitimate or legally recognized natural relatives of a person have to succeed him in all the rights which he would have if alive, or which he might have inherited, is called the right of representation.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 887; May 14, 1947, No. 446, p. 944, eff. 90 days after May 14, 1947.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 223 - Intestate Succession (§§ 2591 — 2626) › Subchapter III - Representation (§§ 2621 — 2626) › § 2622 - Right in direct descending line; collateral line

The right of representation shall always take place in the direct descending line, but never in the ascending.
In the collateral line it shall take place only in favor of the children of brothers or sisters, whether they be of the whole or half blood.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 888.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 223 - Intestate Succession (§§ 2591 — 2626) › Subchapter III - Representation (§§ 2621 — 2626) › § 2623 - Division per stirpes

Whenever the inheritance is taken by representation, the division of the estate shall be made per stirpes; thus the representative or representatives do not inherit any more than that which the person they represent would inherit if alive.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 889.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 223 - Intestate Succession (§§ 2591 — 2626) › Subchapter III - Representation (§§ 2621 — 2626) › § 2624 - Representation when children of brothers or sisters survive

When children of one or more brothers or sisters of the deceased survive, they shall succeed the latter by representation, if uncles also survive. But if they alone survive they shall inherit in equal shares.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 890.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 223 - Intestate Succession (§§ 2591 — 2626) › Subchapter III - Representation (§§ 2621 — 2626) › § 2625 - Representation not lost by renunciation of inheritance

The right of representing a person is not lost by the renunciation of the inheritance.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 891.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 223 - Intestate Succession (§§ 2591 — 2626) › Subchapter III - Representation (§§ 2621 — 2626) › § 2626 - Representation of living person

A living person cannot be represented except in cases of disinheritance or incapacity.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 892.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 225 - Order of Succession According to Diversity of Lines (§§ 2641 — 2693) › Subchapter I - Descending Direct Line (§§ 2641 — 2645) › § 2641 - To whom succession pertains in first place

Succession pertains, in the first place, to the descending direct line.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 893.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 225 - Order of Succession According to Diversity of Lines (§§ 2641 — 2693) › Subchapter I - Descending Direct Line (§§ 2641 — 2645) › § 2642 - Sex and age; children of different marriages

Legitimate and acknowledged illegitimate children and their issue succeed to their fathers and other ancestors without distinction of sex or age, and even though they proceed from different marriages.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 894.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 225 - Order of Succession According to Diversity of Lines (§§ 2641 — 2693) › Subchapter I - Descending Direct Line (§§ 2641 — 2645) › § 2643 - Rights of children

The children of the deceased shall always inherit from him in their own right, dividing the inheritance in equal shares.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 895.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 225 - Order of Succession According to Diversity of Lines (§§ 2641 — 2693) › Subchapter I - Descending Direct Line (§§ 2641 — 2645) › § 2644 - Grandchildren and other descendants

The grandchildren and other descendants shall inherit by right of representation, and if one of them should die, leaving several heirs, the portion pertaining to him shall be divided among the latter in equal parts.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 896.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 225 - Order of Succession According to Diversity of Lines (§§ 2641 — 2693) › Subchapter I - Descending Direct Line (§§ 2641 — 2645) › § 2645 - Children and descendants of deceased children

Should any children and descendants of other deceased children survive, the former shall inherit in their own right, and the latter by right of representation.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 897.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 225 - Order of Succession According to Diversity of Lines (§§ 2641 — 2693) › Subchapter II - Ascending Direct Line (§§ 2651 — 2654) › § 2651 - When ancestors succeed

In default of lawful or acknowledged illegitimate issue and their issue, ancestors shall inherit from the decedent to the exclusion of collaterals.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 898.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 225 - Order of Succession According to Diversity of Lines (§§ 2641 — 2693) › Subchapter II - Ascending Direct Line (§§ 2651 — 2654) › § 2652 - Parents

The father and the mother as regards their legitimate children, and illegitimate parents as regards their acknowledged natural child, if any, shall inherit in equal shares.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 899.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 225 - Order of Succession According to Diversity of Lines (§§ 2641 — 2693) › Subchapter II - Ascending Direct Line (§§ 2651 — 2654) › § 2653 - Other ancestors

In default of father and mother the lawful ancestors nearest in degree shall succeed or natural parents with respect to the illegitimate child recognized by the father or the mother in whose place the ancestor is put by the right of succession.
If there have been different ancestors of the same degree belonging to the same line, the inheritance shall be divided according to the number of ancestors (per capita). If they be of different lines, but of equal degree, one half shall go to the paternal ancestors and the other half to the maternal ancestors. In each line, the division shall be made according to the number of ancestors (per capita).
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 900.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 225 - Order of Succession According to Diversity of Lines (§§ 2641 — 2693) › Subchapter II - Ascending Direct Line (§§ 2651 — 2654) › § 2654 - Succession of ascendants to things given their descendants

The provisions of the two preceding sections are understood without prejudice to what is prescribed in § 2366 of this title, which is applicable to intestate as well as testamentary successions.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 901.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 225 - Order of Succession According to Diversity of Lines (§§ 2641 — 2693) › Subchapter IV - Succession of Collaterals and Spouses (§§ 2671 — 2679) › § 2671 - When collaterals and spouses inherit

In the absence of the persons included in the three preceding subchapters, the collateral relatives and the spouses shall inherit in the order established in the following section.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 903.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 225 - Order of Succession According to Diversity of Lines (§§ 2641 — 2693) › Subchapter IV - Succession of Collaterals and Spouses (§§ 2671 — 2679) › § 2672 - Brothers and sisters of whole blood

Should there be only brothers or sisters of the whole blood, they shall inherit in equal shares.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 904.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 225 - Order of Succession According to Diversity of Lines (§§ 2641 — 2693) › Subchapter IV - Succession of Collaterals and Spouses (§§ 2671 — 2679) › § 2673 - Brothers and nephews of whole blood

Should brothers survive with nephews, children of brothers of the whole blood, the former shall inherit per capita and the latter per stirpes.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 905.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 225 - Order of Succession According to Diversity of Lines (§§ 2641 — 2693) › Subchapter IV - Succession of Collaterals and Spouses (§§ 2671 — 2679) › § 2674 - Brothers of whole blood and brothers of half blood

Should brothers of the whole blood survive with brothers of half blood, the former shall receive a share in the inheritance double that of the latter.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 906.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 225 - Order of Succession According to Diversity of Lines (§§ 2641 — 2693) › Subchapter IV - Succession of Collaterals and Spouses (§§ 2671 — 2679) › § 2675 - Brothers of half blood only

In case there are only brothers of half blood, some on the father’s and some on the mother’s side, all shall inherit equal shares without distinction of property.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 907.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 225 - Order of Succession According to Diversity of Lines (§§ 2641 — 2693) › Subchapter IV - Succession of Collaterals and Spouses (§§ 2671 — 2679) › § 2676 - Children of brothers of half blood

Children of brothers of half blood shall succeed per capita or per stirpes, according to the rules established for brothers or sisters of the whole blood.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 908.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 225 - Order of Succession According to Diversity of Lines (§§ 2641 — 2693) › Subchapter IV - Succession of Collaterals and Spouses (§§ 2671 — 2679) › § 2677 - Surviving spouse

In default of brothers and nephews, the surviving spouse shall succeed to all the property of the decedent, whether or not the sisters and nephews be of the whole blood or the half blood.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 909.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 225 - Order of Succession According to Diversity of Lines (§§ 2641 — 2693) › Subchapter IV - Succession of Collaterals and Spouses (§§ 2671 — 2679) › § 2678 - Other collateral relatives

Should there be neither brothers or sisters nor children of brothers or sisters, nor a surviving spouse, the other collateral relatives shall succeed to the estate of the deceased.
The succession of the latter shall follow without distinction of lines or preference among them by reason of the whole blood.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 910.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 225 - Order of Succession According to Diversity of Lines (§§ 2641 — 2693) › Subchapter IV - Succession of Collaterals and Spouses (§§ 2671 — 2679) › § 2679 - Extent of right to inherit ab intestato

The right to inherit ab intestato shall not extend beyond the sixth degree of relationship in the collateral line.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 911.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 225 - Order of Succession According to Diversity of Lines (§§ 2641 — 2693) › Subchapter V - Right of Succession of the Commonwealth (§§ 2691 — 2693) › § 2691 - Right of succession by Commonwealth

In default of persons who have the right to inherit in accordance with the preceding subchapters, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico shall take the inheritance and devote the property to the benefit of the University Fund.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 912;.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 225 - Order of Succession According to Diversity of Lines (§§ 2641 — 2693) › Subchapter V - Right of Succession of the Commonwealth (§§ 2691 — 2693) › § 2692 - Judicial proceeding required for possession of escheated inheritances

In order that the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico may obtain possession of escheated inheritances, it must be declared entitled by escheat and the property must be adjudicated to it in default of lawful heirs by means of a judicial proceeding.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 913;.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 225 - Order of Succession According to Diversity of Lines (§§ 2641 — 2693) › Subchapter V - Right of Succession of the Commonwealth (§§ 2691 — 2693) › § 2693 - Transfer of property of Commonwealth acquired ab intestato to University and Land Authority

The Governor of Puerto Rico is authorized and directed to execute a public instrument or deed ceding to the University of Puerto Rico all the real and personal property that the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico may hereafter acquire by ab intestato inheritance under the provisions of § 2691, and preceding similar sections of this title, devoted to the Permanent Fund of the University, with the exception of arable lands, which shall be transferred by the Governor, in like manner, to the Land Authority of Puerto Rico.
History —May 4, 1939, No. 86, p. 492, § 2; May 5, 1945, No. 60, p. 218, § 2;.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter I - Precautions When Widow Remains Pregnant (§§ 2711 — 2719) › § 2711 - Notice of pregnancy by widow

When the widow believes that she has been left pregnant, she must notify those having in the inheritance rights of such a character that they will disappear or be reduced by the birth of a posthumous child.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 914.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter I - Precautions When Widow Remains Pregnant (§§ 2711 — 2719) › § 2712 - Measures to avoid feigned delivery or claim that issue born alive

The interested parties to which the preceding section refers shall have the right to ask from the District Judge or from the part of the Court of First Instance having jurisdiction that proper orders be made in order to avoid a feigned delivery or to avoid the setting up of the claim that the issue is born alive when in reality it is not.
The District Judge, or the part of the Court of First Instance in the proper case, shall take care that the measures which they adopt shall not offend modesty nor infringe the liberty of the widow.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 915;.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter I - Precautions When Widow Remains Pregnant (§§ 2711 — 2719) › § 2713 - Notice of time of parturition; establishment of delivery

Whether the notice referred to in § 2711 of this title has been given or not, when the time of the parturition approaches, the widow must notify the persons interested thereof. The latter shall have a right to appoint a person in whom they have confidence in order that he may ascertain the fact of the delivery.
If the person designated shall be rejected by the patient, the District Judge or the Court of First Instance in the proper case shall make a nomination of a member of the medical faculty or of a woman.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 916;.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter I - Precautions When Widow Remains Pregnant (§§ 2711 — 2719) › § 2714 - Effect of omission formalities on legitimacy; prescription of action

The omission of these formalities shall not prejudice the legitimacy of the parturition, which, if impugned, may be proven by the mother or by the child legally represented.
The action to impugn on the part of those having such right shall prescribe in the periods indicated in §§ 461-466 of this title.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 917.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter I - Precautions When Widow Remains Pregnant (§§ 2711 — 2719) › § 2715 - Notices when husband has acknowledged pregnancy

When the husband has acknowledged in an instrument, either public or private, the fact of the pregnancy of his wife she shall be excused from giving the notice required by section 2711 of this title, but she must comply with the provisions of § 2713 of this title.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 918.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter I - Precautions When Widow Remains Pregnant (§§ 2711 — 2719) › § 2716 - Right of pregnant widow to support

A widow who remains pregnant, even though she be rich, must be given support from the estate, taking into consideration the portion thereof which may pertain to the posthumous child, should it be born and be viable.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 919.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter I - Precautions When Widow Remains Pregnant (§§ 2711 — 2719) › § 2717 - Administration of property until delivery or certainty there will be none

In the term that intervenes until the delivery, or until it is certain whether or not there will be a delivery, either because there has been an abortion or because the maximum term of gestation has expired, provision shall be made for the security and the administration of the property, and the proper part of the Court of First Instance shall nominate a judicial administrator, with a bond to be fixed by the said court.
For the administration of the property of the inheritance the widow herself shall be preferred if there is no ground or sufficient reason to the contrary in the discretion of the said court.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 920;.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter I - Precautions When Widow Remains Pregnant (§§ 2711 — 2719) › § 2718 - Division of inheritance suspended; payment of creditors

The division of the inheritance shall be suspended until the parturition or miscarriage takes place, or the lapse of time shows the widow was not pregnant.
However, an administrator may pay the creditors after a judicial mandate.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 921.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter I - Precautions When Widow Remains Pregnant (§§ 2711 — 2719) › § 2719 - Account of administration

After the delivery or miscarriage has taken place, or after the period of gestation has elapsed, the administrator of the estate shall terminate his office and shall give an account of his management to the heirs or to their legal representatives.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 922.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter II - Property to Be Set Apart (§§ 2731 — 2743) › § 2731 - Widower or widow contracting second marriage

The widower or widow contracting a second marriage shall be obliged to set apart for the children and descendants of the former the ownership of all the property he may have acquired from the deceased spouse by will, by intestate succession, by gift, or for any other good consideration, but not his or her half of the conjugal profits.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 923.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter II - Property to Be Set Apart (§§ 2731 — 2743) › § 2732 - What property included

The provision of the preceding section is applicable to property which has been acquired for the considerations mentioned therein, by the widower or widow from any of the children of the first marriage, and to that received from the relatives of the deceased by reason of personal consideration for the same.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 924.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter II - Property to Be Set Apart (§§ 2731 — 2743) › § 2733 - Termination of obligation

The obligation to set apart shall cease when the children of a marriage, of age and who may have a right to the estate, should expressly renounce it, or when things given or left by the children to their father or mother, with a knowledge that they had married a second time, are in question.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 925.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter II - Property to Be Set Apart (§§ 2731 — 2743) › § 2734 - Termination of obligation—If no descendant of first marriage survives

The reservation shall also cease if on the death of the father or mother who contracted a second marriage no legitimate children or descendants of the first marriage survive.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 926.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter II - Property to Be Set Apart (§§ 2731 — 2743) › § 2735 - Advantages or extra portions

Notwithstanding the obligation to set apart, the father or mother, married a second time, may grant advantages or extra portions in the property to be set apart to any of the children or descendants of the first marriage.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 927.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter II - Property to Be Set Apart (§§ 2731 — 2743) › § 2736 - Succession to property to be set apart

If the father or mother should not have made use in whole or in part of the right granted him or her in the foregoing section, the legitimate children and descendants of the first marriage shall succeed to the property to be set apart in accordance with the rules prescribed for succession in the descending line, even if, by virtue of a will, he or she should have unequally inherited from the first deceased spouse or should have renounced or repudiated his or her inheritance.
The child, justly disinherited by the father or by the mother, shall lose all right to the property set apart.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 928.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter II - Property to Be Set Apart (§§ 2731 — 2743) › § 2737 - Alienations of real property—Before second marriage

Alienations of real property to be set apart, made by the surviving spouse before contracting a second marriage, shall be valid with the obligation to secure, from the moment of said marriage, the value of the same to the children and descendants of the first marriage.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 929.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter II - Property to Be Set Apart (§§ 2731 — 2743) › § 2738 - Property to be set apart—After second marriage

Alienations of real property to be set apart, which may have been made by the widower or widow after contracting a second marriage, shall be valid only if on his or her death no legitimate children or descendants of the first marriage survive, without prejudice to the provisions of the Mortgage Law, Title 30.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 930.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter II - Property to Be Set Apart (§§ 2731 — 2743) › § 2739 - Alienations of personal property

Alienations of personal property, made before or after contracting a second marriage, shall be valid, always reserving the obligation to pay an indemnity.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 931.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter II - Property to Be Set Apart (§§ 2731 — 2743) › § 2740 - Inventory, recording, and appraisal of property

A widower or widow, on contracting a new marriage, shall have an inventory made of all the property subject to be set apart, enter in the registry of property that such real estate is subject to be set apart in accordance with the provisions of the Mortgage Law, and shall have the personal property appraised.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 932.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter II - Property to Be Set Apart (§§ 2731 — 2743) › § 2741 - Security by mortgage

A widower or widow, on remarrying, is also bound to secure by a mortgage:
(1) The payment of the damages caused, or which may be caused by his or her fault or neglect.
(2) The return of the sums which may have been received for the personal property alienated or the delivery of the value it had at the time of the alienation, if the latter should have been made for a good consideration.
(3) The value of the real estate validly alienated.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 933.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter II - Property to Be Set Apart (§§ 2731 — 2743) › § 2742 - Third and subsequent marriages

The provisions of the preceding sections for the case of a second marriage shall also be observed in third and subsequent marriages.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 934.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter II - Property to Be Set Apart (§§ 2731 — 2743) › § 2743 - Obligation to set apart in case of subsequent natural child

The obligation to set apart, imposed in the preceding sections, shall be applicable to the widower or widow, who, even though he or she does not contract a new marriage, may subsequently have an acknowledged natural child, or one judicially declared as such.
Said obligation shall be effective from the date of the birth of said child.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 935.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter III - Right of Accretion (§§ 2751 — 2757) › § 2751 - Portion of person repudiating inheritance

In legitimate successions the portion of the person who repudiates the inheritance shall always accrue to the coheirs.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 936.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter III - Right of Accretion (§§ 2751 — 2757) › § 2752 - Requirements for accretion in testamentary succession

In order that a testamentary succession in the right of accretion may take place it is necessary:
(1) That two or more persons are designated to the same inheritance or to the same portion thereof without a special designation of shares.
(2) That one of the persons designated dies before the testator or renounces the inheritance or is disqualified to receive it.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 937.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter III - Right of Accretion (§§ 2751 — 2757) › § 2753 - Designation by portion

It shall be understood that a designation has been made by portion only in case the testator may have expressly assigned a share to each heir.
The phrase “one half to each or in equal parts”, or any other which, though designating an aliquot part, should not fix it numerically or in such manner as to make each of them the owner of an estate severally, does not exclude the right of accretion.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 938.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter III - Right of Accretion (§§ 2751 — 2757) › § 2754 - Rights and obligations of heirs to whom inheritance accrues

The heirs, to whom the inheritance accrues, shall succeed to all the rights and obligations which the one who did not wish or could not receive it would have had.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 939.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter III - Right of Accretion (§§ 2751 — 2757) › § 2755 - Accretion among heirs by force of law

Among heirs by force of law the right of accretion shall take place only when the part which can be freely disposed of is left to two or more of them, or to any one of them, and to a stranger.
Should the part repudiated be the legal portion, the other co-heirs shall succeed to it in their own right, and not by the right of accretion.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 940.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter III - Right of Accretion (§§ 2751 — 2757) › § 2756 - Disposition of portion in absence of accretion

In testamentary successions, when the right of accretion is not proper, the rejected portion of the heir designated, for whom no substitute has been appointed, shall pass to the legal heirs of the testator who shall receive it with the same charges and obligations.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 941.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter III - Right of Accretion (§§ 2751 — 2757) › § 2757 - Accretion between legatees and usufructuaries

The right of accretion shall also be proper between the legatees and the usufructuaries in the manner established for heirs.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 942.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter IV - Acceptance and Repudiation of Inheritance (§§ 2771 — 2791) › § 2771 - Acceptance and repudiation as voluntary acts

Acceptance and repudiation of the inheritance are acts entirely voluntary and free.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 943.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter IV - Acceptance and Repudiation of Inheritance (§§ 2771 — 2791) › § 2772 - Retroactive effects

The effects of the acceptance and repudiation shall always retroact to the moment of the death of the person whose property is inherited.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 944.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter IV - Acceptance and Repudiation of Inheritance (§§ 2771 — 2791) › § 2773 - Acceptance or repudiation cannot be partial, temporary, or conditional

Acceptance or repudiation of the inheritance cannot take place, either partially, for a certain period, nor conditionally.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 945.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter IV - Acceptance and Repudiation of Inheritance (§§ 2771 — 2791) › § 2774 - Certainty of death and rights required

No person can accept nor repudiate an inheritance, without being certain of the death of the person from whom he is to inherit and of his rights to the inheritance.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 946.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter IV - Acceptance and Repudiation of Inheritance (§§ 2771 — 2791) › § 2775 - Acceptance and repudiation of inheritance—Minors or incapacitated persons; poor

Any person having the free disposal of his property may accept or repudiate an inheritance.
An inheritance left to minors or incapacitated persons may be accepted in accordance with the tenure of that provided in number 10 of § 786 of this title. Should the guardian accept by himself, the acceptance shall be considered as made under benefit of inventory.
The acceptance of an inheritance left to the poor shall pertain to the persons designated by the testator to classify and distribute the property, and, in their absence, to those mentioned in § 2254 of this title, and it shall also be understood as accepted under benefit of inventory.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 947.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter IV - Acceptance and Repudiation of Inheritance (§§ 2771 — 2791) › § 2776 - Acceptance and repudiation of inheritance—Associations, corporations, and institutions

The legal representatives of associations, corporations, and institutions qualified to acquire may accept the inheritance left to the same; but in order to repudiate it they require judicial approval, after hearing the prosecuting attorney.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 948.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter IV - Acceptance and Repudiation of Inheritance (§§ 2771 — 2791) › § 2777 - Acceptance and repudiation of inheritance—Public official establishments

Public official establishments can neither accept nor repudiate inheritances without the approval of the Governor of Puerto Rico.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 949.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter IV - Acceptance and Repudiation of Inheritance (§§ 2771 — 2791) › § 2778 - Acceptance and repudiation of inheritance—Deaf mutes

Deaf mutes who know how to read and write shall accept or decline the inheritance in person, or by means of a representative in accordance with the law. If they do not know how to read or write, their guardian shall accept it under benefit of inventory, subject to the provisions in respect to this disability contained in § 707 of this title.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 950.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter IV - Acceptance and Repudiation of Inheritance (§§ 2771 — 2791) › § 2779 - Acceptance and repudiation irrevocable

The acceptance and repudiation of an inheritance once made are irrevocable, and cannot be impugned except when they are tainted from any of the defects which annul the consent, or when an unknown will appears.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 951.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter IV - Acceptance and Repudiation of Inheritance (§§ 2771 — 2791) › § 2780 - How inheritances accepted

Inheritances may be accepted purely and simply or under benefit of inventory.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 952.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter IV - Acceptance and Repudiation of Inheritance (§§ 2771 — 2791) › § 2781 - Pure and simple acceptances; express or implied

Pure and simple acceptances may be express or implied.
An express acceptance is one made in a public or private instrument.
Implied acceptance is one made by acts which necessarily imply a wish to accept, or acts which no one should have a right to execute except in the capacity of an heir.
Acts of mere preservation, or provisional administration, do not imply the acceptance of the inheritance, if, at the same time, the title and character of heir have not been assumed.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 953.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 3 - Different Ways of Acquiring Ownership (§§ 1931 — 2936) › PART IV - Successions (§§ 2081 — 2936) › Chapter 227 - Provisions Common to Inheritance by or Without Will (§§ 2711 — 2825) › Subchapter IV - Acceptance and Repudiation of Inheritance (§§ 2771 — 2791) › § 2782 - When inheritance considered accepted

An inheritance is considered as accepted:
(1) When the heir sells, gives, or assigns his right to a stranger, to all his coheirs, or to one of them.
(2) When the heir renounces it, even gratuitously, for the benefit of one or more of his coheirs.
(3) When he renounces it for a consideration in favor of all his coheirs indiscriminately, but if this renunciation should be gratuitous, and the coheirs, in whose favor it is made, are those to whom the portion renounced must accrue, the inheritance shall not be considered as accepted.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 954.