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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IX - Agency (§§ 4421 — 4488) › Chapter 329 - Obligations of Principal (§§ 4441 — 4449) › § 4443 - Accounts of transactions

Every agent is bound to give an account of his transactions and to pay to the principal all that he may have received by virtue of the agency, even though what has been received is not owed to the principal.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1611.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IX - Agency (§§ 4421 — 4488) › Chapter 329 - Obligations of Principal (§§ 4441 — 4449) › § 4444 - Appointment of substitute; liability for his acts

An agent may appoint a substitute when the principal has not forbidden him to do so, but he shall be liable for the acts of the substitute:
(1) When the power to appoint such substitute was not granted him.
(2) When such power was granted him, but without designating the person, and the person appointed is well known to be incapacitated or insolvent.
What is done by the substitute, appointed against the prohibition of the principal, shall be void.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1612.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IX - Agency (§§ 4421 — 4488) › Chapter 329 - Obligations of Principal (§§ 4441 — 4449) › § 4445 - Action of principal against substitute

In the cases included in the two (2) subsections of section 4444 of this title, the principal may furthermore bring an action against the substitute.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1613.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IX - Agency (§§ 4421 — 4488) › Chapter 329 - Obligations of Principal (§§ 4441 — 4449) › § 4446 - Liability of two or more agents

The liability of two (2) or more agents, even though they should have been simultaneously appointed, is not joint unless it has been so stated.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1614.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IX - Agency (§§ 4421 — 4488) › Chapter 329 - Obligations of Principal (§§ 4441 — 4449) › § 4447 - Interest payable by agent

An agent shall owe interest for the sum he has applied to his own use, from the day on which he did so, and for those which he still owes, after the expiration of the agency, and from the time of his default.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1615.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IX - Agency (§§ 4421 — 4488) › Chapter 329 - Obligations of Principal (§§ 4441 — 4449) › § 4448 - Personal liability of agent

An agent who acts as such is not personally liable to the person with whom he contracted, unless he expressly binds himself therefor, or when he exceeds the scope of the authority without giving him sufficient notice of his powers.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1616.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IX - Agency (§§ 4421 — 4488) › Chapter 329 - Obligations of Principal (§§ 4441 — 4449) › § 4449 - Liability for fraud and negligence

An agent is liable not only for fraud, but also for negligence, which must be judged with more or less severity by the courts, according as to whether the agency may have been gratuitous or otherwise.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1617.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IX - Agency (§§ 4421 — 4488) › Chapter 331 - Obligations of Agent (§§ 4461 — 4465) › § 4461 - Obligations contracted by agent

A principal must fulfill all the obligations which the agent may have contracted, within the scope of his authority.
A principal is liable, insofar as the agent has exceeded his power, only when he ratifies the same, expressly or in an implied manner.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1618.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IX - Agency (§§ 4421 — 4488) › Chapter 331 - Obligations of Agent (§§ 4461 — 4465) › § 4462 - Advances to and reimbursement of agent

A principal must advance to the agent, if the latter should request it, the amounts necessary for the execution of the agency.
Should the agent have advanced them, the principal must reimburse him for the same, even if the transaction should not have succeeded, provided the agent should have been exempted from blame.
The reimbursement shall include interest on the amounts advanced, counted from the day on which the advance was made.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1619.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IX - Agency (§§ 4421 — 4488) › Chapter 331 - Obligations of Agent (§§ 4461 — 4465) › § 4463 - Indemnity for losses and damages

The principal must also indemnify the agent for all losses and damages he may incur in complying with the agency, without fault nor imprudence on the part of said agent.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1620.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IX - Agency (§§ 4421 — 4488) › Chapter 331 - Obligations of Agent (§§ 4461 — 4465) › § 4464 - Retention of things by agent

The agent may retain the things which are the objects of the agency in pledge until the principal pays the indemnity and reimbursement referred to in §§ 4462 and 4463 of this title.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1621.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IX - Agency (§§ 4421 — 4488) › Chapter 331 - Obligations of Agent (§§ 4461 — 4465) › § 4465 - Joint liability of two or more principals

If two (2) or more persons have appointed an agent for a common transaction, they shall be jointly liable to the latter for all the effects of the agency.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1622.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IX - Agency (§§ 4421 — 4488) › Chapter 333 - Manner of Terminating Agency (§§ 4481 — 4488) › § 4481 - Termination of the power of attorney

The power of attorney terminates when:
(1) It is revoked.
(2) The agent resigns.
(3) The principal or the agent dies, bankruptcy, or insolvency.
(4) The principal becomes incapacitated to administer his/her property, unless a durable power of attorney has been executed, as provided in § 4421a of this title.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1623; Jan. 10, 1998, No. 17, § 14; Jan. 18, 2012, No. 25, § 5.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IX - Agency (§§ 4421 — 4488) › Chapter 333 - Manner of Terminating Agency (§§ 4481 — 4488) › § 4482 - Revocation by principal

The principal may, at his will, revoke the power and compel the agent to return the instrument containing the same in which the authority was given.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1624.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IX - Agency (§§ 4421 — 4488) › Chapter 333 - Manner of Terminating Agency (§§ 4481 — 4488) › § 4483 - Effect of revocation on third persons

If the agency should have been granted to contract with determined persons, its revocation cannot prejudice them unless they were given notice.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1625.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IX - Agency (§§ 4421 — 4488) › Chapter 333 - Manner of Terminating Agency (§§ 4481 — 4488) › § 4484 - Appointment of new agent

The appointment of a new agent for the same business produces a revocation of the previous agency from the day on which notice was given to the former agent, excepting the provisions of § 4483 of this title.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1626.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IX - Agency (§§ 4421 — 4488) › Chapter 333 - Manner of Terminating Agency (§§ 4481 — 4488) › § 4485 - Withdrawal of agent

An agent may withdraw from the agency by giving notice to the principal. Should the latter suffer any losses through the withdrawal, the agent must indemnify him therefor, unless said agent bases his withdrawal upon the impossibility of continuing to act as such without serious detriment to himself.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1627.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IX - Agency (§§ 4421 — 4488) › Chapter 333 - Manner of Terminating Agency (§§ 4481 — 4488) › § 4486 - Time agent must continue as such

Even should the agent renounce the agency for sufficient cause, he must continue as such until the principal should have been able to take the necessary steps to provide therefor.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1628.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IX - Agency (§§ 4421 — 4488) › Chapter 333 - Manner of Terminating Agency (§§ 4481 — 4488) › § 4487 - Acts of agent after death of principal or other termination of agency

What has been done by the agent, when he was not aware of the death of the principal, or of any other of the causes which terminate the agency, shall be valid and of effect with regard to third persons who may have contracted with the agent in good faith.
In regard to any contract made by an agent under the circumstances referred to in the preceding paragraph, or compliance with which should be required of the principal or his heirs, posterior to any of the causes which extinguish the agency, authentic documentary evidence shall be filed, and should this not exist, the contract must be satisfactorily proved.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1629.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IX - Agency (§§ 4421 — 4488) › Chapter 333 - Manner of Terminating Agency (§§ 4481 — 4488) › § 4488 - Action of heirs on death of agent

In case the agent dies, his heirs must inform the principal thereof, and meanwhile adopt the measures which circumstances may require for the interest of the latter.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1630.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART X - Loans (§§ 4511 — 4599) › Chapter 337 - General Provisions (§ 4511) › § 4511 - Contract of loan defined; commodatum as gratuitous; loan as gratuitous or with interest

By the contract of loan, one of the parties delivers to the other, either anything not perishable, in order that the latter may use it during a certain period and return it to the former, in which case it is called commodatum, or money or any other perishable thing, under the condition to return an equal amount of the same kind and quality, in which case it is merely called a loan.
Commodatum is essentially gratuitous.
A simple loan may be gratuitous, or made under a stipulation to pay interest.
—Civil Code, 1930, § 1631.
History
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART X - Loans (§§ 4511 — 4599) › Chapter 339 - Commodatum (§§ 4521 — 4554) › Subchapter I - Nature of Commodatum (§§ 4521 — 4522) › § 4521 - Rights of bailor and bailee

The bailor retains the ownership of the thing loaned. The bailee acquires the use thereof, but not its fruits; if any compensation is involved, to be paid by the person requiring the use, the agreement ceases to be a commodatum.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1632.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART X - Loans (§§ 4511 — 4599) › Chapter 339 - Commodatum (§§ 4521 — 4554) › Subchapter I - Nature of Commodatum (§§ 4521 — 4522) › § 4522 - Transmission of obligations and rights arising from commodatum

The obligations and rights which arise from the commodatum pass to the heirs of both contracting parties, unless the loan has been made in consideration for the person of the bailee, in which case his heirs shall not have the right to continue using the thing loaned.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1633.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART X - Loans (§§ 4511 — 4599) › Chapter 339 - Commodatum (§§ 4521 — 4554) › Subchapter II - Obligations of Bailee (§§ 4531 — 4536) › § 4531 - Ordinary expenses of use and preservation

The bailee is obliged to pay the ordinary expenses which are necessary for the use and preservation of the thing loaned.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1634.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART X - Loans (§§ 4511 — 4599) › Chapter 339 - Commodatum (§§ 4521 — 4554) › Subchapter II - Obligations of Bailee (§§ 4531 — 4536) › § 4532 - Loss of thing loaned

If the bailee puts the thing to a different use from that for which it was loaned, or keeps it in his possession for a longer time than that agreed upon, he shall be liable for its loss, even when said loss occurs by reason of a fortuitous event.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1635.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART X - Loans (§§ 4511 — 4599) › Chapter 339 - Commodatum (§§ 4521 — 4554) › Subchapter II - Obligations of Bailee (§§ 4531 — 4536) › § 4533 - Loss of thing loaned—When delivered under appraisal

If the thing loaned was delivered under appraisal and is lost, even should it be by reason of a fortuitous event, the bailee shall be liable for its value unless there is an agreement in which he is expressly exempted from liability.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1636.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART X - Loans (§§ 4511 — 4599) › Chapter 339 - Commodatum (§§ 4521 — 4554) › Subchapter II - Obligations of Bailee (§§ 4531 — 4536) › § 4534 - Bailee not liable for wear and tear through use

The bailee is not liable for the wear and tear suffered by the thing loaned by reason of its use only, and without his fault.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1637.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART X - Loans (§§ 4511 — 4599) › Chapter 339 - Commodatum (§§ 4521 — 4554) › Subchapter II - Obligations of Bailee (§§ 4531 — 4536) › § 4535 - Retention of thing loaned forbidden

A bailee cannot retain the thing loaned under the pretext that the bailor owes him something, even should it be by reason of expenses.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1638.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART X - Loans (§§ 4511 — 4599) › Chapter 339 - Commodatum (§§ 4521 — 4554) › Subchapter II - Obligations of Bailee (§§ 4531 — 4536) › § 4536 - Joint liability of bailees

All the bailees to whom the thing is jointly loaned shall be jointly liable for the same, in accordance with the provisions of §§ 4531-4536 of this title.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1639.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART X - Loans (§§ 4511 — 4599) › Chapter 339 - Commodatum (§§ 4521 — 4554) › Subchapter III - Obligations of Bailor (§§ 4551 — 4554) › § 4551 - Demand for restitution of thing loaned

A bailor cannot demand the thing loaned, except after the termination of the use for which he loaned it. Nevertheless, if before this period the bailor has an urgent necessity for the same, he may demand its restitution.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1640.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART X - Loans (§§ 4511 — 4599) › Chapter 339 - Commodatum (§§ 4521 — 4554) › Subchapter III - Obligations of Bailor (§§ 4551 — 4554) › § 4552 - Loss of thing loaned—If duration of commodatum not stipulated

If the duration of the commodatum should not have been stipulated nor the use to which the thing loaned was to be devoted, and the latter should not be determined by the customs of the land, the bailor may demand it at his will.
In case of doubt the burden of proof falls upon the bailee.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1641.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART X - Loans (§§ 4511 — 4599) › Chapter 339 - Commodatum (§§ 4521 — 4554) › Subchapter III - Obligations of Bailor (§§ 4551 — 4554) › § 4553 - Extraordinary expenses for preservation

The bailor must pay the extraordinary expenses arising during the contract for the preservation of the thing loaned, provided that the bailee informs him thereof before making them, unless they should be so urgent that the answer to the notice cannot be waited for without risk.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1642.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART X - Loans (§§ 4511 — 4599) › Chapter 339 - Commodatum (§§ 4521 — 4554) › Subchapter III - Obligations of Bailor (§§ 4551 — 4554) › § 4554 - Damages for which bailor responsible

The bailor who, knowing the vices of the thing loaned, should not have informed the bailee thereof, shall be liable to him for the damages he may have suffered by reason thereof.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1643.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART X - Loans (§§ 4511 — 4599) › Chapter 341 - Simple Loan (§§ 4571 — 4575) › § 4571 - Nature of simple loan

A person receiving money or any other perishable thing on loan acquires its ownership, and is bound to return to the creditor an equal amount of the same kind and quality.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1644.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART X - Loans (§§ 4511 — 4599) › Chapter 341 - Simple Loan (§§ 4571 — 4575) › § 4572 - Obligation of person taking money, perishable things, or metal on loan

The obligation of a person taking money on loan shall be governed by the provisions of § 3174 of this title.
If what has been loaned is another perishable thing, or a quantity of metal, not coined, the debtor owes a quantity equal to that received, and of the same kind and quality, even though it may have suffered a change in its value.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1645.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART X - Loans (§§ 4511 — 4599) › Chapter 341 - Simple Loan (§§ 4571 — 4575) › § 4573 - Interest

Interest shall only be owed when it has been expressly stipulated.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1646.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART X - Loans (§§ 4511 — 4599) › Chapter 341 - Simple Loan (§§ 4571 — 4575) › § 4574 - Payment of interest without stipulation

A borrower who has paid interest without it being stipulated cannot claim it nor charge it to the capital.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1647.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART X - Loans (§§ 4511 — 4599) › Chapter 341 - Simple Loan (§§ 4571 — 4575) › § 4575 - Pawn shops

Pawn shops shall furthermore be subject to the proper regulations.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1648.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART X - Loans (§§ 4511 — 4599) › Chapter 343 - Fixing Legal Rate of Interest (§§ 4591 — 4599) › § 4591 - Interest rate in absence of agreement; limit of rate fixed by agreement

In the absence of a prior agreement in writing, the rate of interest upon the loan or forbearance of money or goods, or on any type of obligation or agreement, shall be at a rate of six (6) dollars annually on each one hundred (100) dollars or upon its equivalent value, and at the same rate for a greater or lesser sum, or for a longer or shorter period; Provided, however, That no rate of interest shall be fixed in excess of nine (9) dollars a year on each one hundred (100) dollars or upon its equivalent in value, when the capital sum subject to the loan or agreement does not exceed $ 3,000, and of eight (8) dollars a year on each one hundred (100) dollars, when it exceeds said amount. It shall be lawful to discount bills and notes and other similar obligations within the limits defined herein.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1649; Aug. 17, 1933, No. 5, p. 26; July 9, 1985, No. 100, p. 332.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART X - Loans (§§ 4511 — 4599) › Chapter 343 - Fixing Legal Rate of Interest (§§ 4591 — 4599) › § 4592 - Prior contracts, obligations, and judgments

§§ 4591-4599 of this title shall not apply to contracts entered into or obligations incurred or judgments rendered prior to the date of the passage hereof.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1650.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART X - Loans (§§ 4511 — 4599) › Chapter 343 - Fixing Legal Rate of Interest (§§ 4591 — 4599) › § 4593 - Licensed pawnbrokers, bottomry and respondentia bonds and contracts

Section 4591 of this title shall not apply to loans made by licensed pawnbrokers, or to bottomry and respondentia bonds and contracts.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1651.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART X - Loans (§§ 4511 — 4599) › Chapter 343 - Fixing Legal Rate of Interest (§§ 4591 — 4599) › § 4594 - Receipt of money or goods at excessive rate of interest; enforcement of contracts

No person, except as authorized by § 4593 of this title, shall demand or receive, directly or indirectly, any money or goods, at any greater rate of interest for the loan or extension of time of said loan, that the rate provided for in §§ 4591-4599 of this title. Nothing in these sections shall be taken to prohibit the sale of goods for cash at a less price than for credit.
No contract wherein or whereby there is reserved, accepted or secured, or agreed to be reserved, accepted or secured, any greater rate of interest than is allowed by §§ 4591-4599 of this title may be made effective in any court in Puerto Rico, except for the amount of the principal due; and the court must provide, furthermore, in the judgment directing the debtor to pay the principal, that the creditor shall recover only seventy-five (75) percent of said principal and that the remaining twenty-five (25) percent shall be awarded to and recovered by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, who may obtain a writ of execution, in the same manner as the plaintiff, but without precedence over the amount awarded to the latter, to make effective the twenty-five (25) percent in that manner awarded.
The rights herein defined shall not be waived.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1652.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART X - Loans (§§ 4511 — 4599) › Chapter 343 - Fixing Legal Rate of Interest (§§ 4591 — 4599) › § 4595 - Recovery of sums paid over legal rate of interest

Any person who for any loan or forbearance pays or delivers any greater sum or value than is fixed by law as interest at the legal rate, or his representatives, may within one year after such payment or delivery, recover by action the excess of the money or value so paid over the amount of interest at legal rate from the person or his representative who accepted or received the same.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1653.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART X - Loans (§§ 4511 — 4599) › Chapter 343 - Fixing Legal Rate of Interest (§§ 4591 — 4599) › § 4596 - Reimbursement of or relinquishment of agreement for illegal interest

Any person who repays or returns any money, goods or other things taken, accepted or received in violation of sections 4591-4599 of this title, or by a written instrument delivered to the other party of the contract before the commencement of a proceeding to enjoin the enforcement of the contract, or before the defense of usury is interposed by the borrower in an action on the contract, effectually relinquishes the right to any interest or discount or value reserved in violation of these sections, shall be relieved from further forfeiture, penalty or punishment, and the contract from the date of the repayment, return or written relinquishment shall be valid and effectual.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1654.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART X - Loans (§§ 4511 — 4599) › Chapter 343 - Fixing Legal Rate of Interest (§§ 4591 — 4599) › § 4597 - Calculation of months

In calculations of interest, a month shall be considered as the twelfth part of a year and as consisting of thirty (30) days, and interest for any number of days less than a month shall be calculated by the proportion which such number of days bears to thirty (30).
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1655.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART X - Loans (§§ 4511 — 4599) › Chapter 343 - Fixing Legal Rate of Interest (§§ 4591 — 4599) › § 4598 - Pleading of usury as separate defense

When any person relying upon the provisions of sections 4591-4599 of this title for the purpose of avoiding any contract for the payment of a greater rate of interest or compensation for a loan or forbearance of money or goods, seeks to avail himself of the provisions hereof in any proceeding to enforce such a contract, he shall set up specifically and under the separate defense for usury the facts which constitute a violation of said sections.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1656.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART X - Loans (§§ 4511 — 4599) › Chapter 343 - Fixing Legal Rate of Interest (§§ 4591 — 4599) › § 4599 - Interest under prior contracts

Nothing in §§ 4591-4599 of this title shall be construed to apply to payments of interest made under contracts entered into prior to the passage of the provisions of said sections, in which a different or other rate of interest from that provided for herein is specified, or to the payment of interest on judgments rendered on contracts entered into prior to the passage of the provisions of said sections in which another or different rate of interest is specified.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1657.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART XI - Depositum (§§ 4621 — 4715) › Chapter 347 - Depositum Generally and Its Different Kinds (§§ 4621 — 4622) › § 4621 - Constitution of depositum

A depositum is constituted from the time a person receives a thing belonging to another with the obligation of keeping and returning it.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1658.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART XI - Depositum (§§ 4621 — 4715) › Chapter 347 - Depositum Generally and Its Different Kinds (§§ 4621 — 4622) › § 4622 - Constitution judicially or extrajudicially

A depositum may be constituted judicially or extrajudicially.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1659.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART XI - Depositum (§§ 4621 — 4715) › Chapter 349 - Depositum Properly Speaking (§§ 4641 — 4694) › Subchapter I - Nature and Essence of Contract of Depositum (§§ 4641 — 4643) › § 4641 - Depositum as gratuitous contract

Depositum is a gratuitous contract unless there is an agreement to the contrary.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1660.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART XI - Depositum (§§ 4621 — 4715) › Chapter 349 - Depositum Properly Speaking (§§ 4641 — 4694) › Subchapter I - Nature and Essence of Contract of Depositum (§§ 4641 — 4643) › § 4642 - Object must be personal property

Personal property only can be an object of a depositum.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1661.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART XI - Depositum (§§ 4621 — 4715) › Chapter 349 - Depositum Properly Speaking (§§ 4641 — 4694) › Subchapter I - Nature and Essence of Contract of Depositum (§§ 4641 — 4643) › § 4643 - Kinds of extrajudicial depositum

An extrajudicial depositum is either necessary or voluntary.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1662.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART XI - Depositum (§§ 4621 — 4715) › Chapter 349 - Depositum Properly Speaking (§§ 4641 — 4694) › Subchapter II - Voluntary Depositum (§§ 4651 — 4653) › § 4651 - Voluntary depositum defined; by whom made

A voluntary depositum is that in which delivery is made by the will of the bailor. The depositum may be made by two or more persons who believe themselves to have a right to the thing bailed in the hands of a third person, who shall, in a proper case, deliver said thing to the proper person.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1663.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART XI - Depositum (§§ 4621 — 4715) › Chapter 349 - Depositum Properly Speaking (§§ 4641 — 4694) › Subchapter II - Voluntary Depositum (§§ 4651 — 4653) › § 4652 - Acceptance of depositum made by incapacitated person

If a person qualified to contract accepts the depositum made by another who is an incapacitated person, the former is subject to all the obligations of a bailee, and may be compelled to return it by the guardian, curator, or administrator of the person who made the depositum, or by the same person, should he become qualified.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1664.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART XI - Depositum (§§ 4621 — 4715) › Chapter 349 - Depositum Properly Speaking (§§ 4641 — 4694) › Subchapter II - Voluntary Depositum (§§ 4651 — 4653) › § 4653 - Depositum by qualified person to incapacitated person

If the depositum has been made by a qualified person, in the hands of another who is incapacitated, the bailor shall only have the action to recover the thing bailed as long as it remains in the possession of the bailee, or to compel the latter to pay him the sum by which he may have profited by the thing, or its price.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1665.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART XI - Depositum (§§ 4621 — 4715) › Chapter 349 - Depositum Properly Speaking (§§ 4641 — 4694) › Subchapter III - Obligations to Bailee (§§ 4661 — 4673) › § 4661 - Obligation to keep and return thing

A bailee is obliged to keep the thing, and, when required, to return it to the bailor or to his legal representatives, or to the person who may have been designated in the contract. His liability, with regard to the keeping and loss of the thing, shall be governed by the provisions of §§ 2991-3344 of this title.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1666.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART XI - Depositum (§§ 4621 — 4715) › Chapter 349 - Depositum Properly Speaking (§§ 4641 — 4694) › Subchapter III - Obligations to Bailee (§§ 4661 — 4673) › § 4662 - Permission required for use of thing

The bailee cannot make use of the thing bailed without the express permission of the bailor.
Otherwise he shall be liable for losses and damages.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1667.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART XI - Depositum (§§ 4621 — 4715) › Chapter 349 - Depositum Properly Speaking (§§ 4641 — 4694) › Subchapter III - Obligations to Bailee (§§ 4661 — 4673) › § 4663 - Effect of permission to use thing; presumption and proof

When the bailee has permission to make use of the thing bailed, the contract loses the character of a depositum and becomes a loan or a commodatum.
The permission shall not be presumed, and its existence must be proven.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1668.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART XI - Depositum (§§ 4621 — 4715) › Chapter 349 - Depositum Properly Speaking (§§ 4641 — 4694) › Subchapter III - Obligations to Bailee (§§ 4661 — 4673) › § 4664 - Delivery of thing closed and sealed; determination of value

When the thing bailed is delivered closed and sealed, the bailee must return it in the same condition, and shall be liable for the losses and damages if the seal or lock should have been broken by his fault.
Such bailee is presumed to be to blame unless the contrary is proven.
With regard to the value of the thing bailed, the statement of the bailor shall be admitted when the forcible opening can be charged to the bailee, should there be no proof to the contrary.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1669.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART XI - Depositum (§§ 4621 — 4715) › Chapter 349 - Depositum Properly Speaking (§§ 4641 — 4694) › Subchapter III - Obligations to Bailee (§§ 4661 — 4673) › § 4665 - Proceeds, accretions, and interest

The thing bailed shall be returned with all its proceeds and accretions.
Should the depositum consist of money, the provisions relating to agents, contained in § 4447 of this title, shall be applied to the bailee.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1670.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART XI - Depositum (§§ 4621 — 4715) › Chapter 349 - Depositum Properly Speaking (§§ 4641 — 4694) › Subchapter III - Obligations to Bailee (§§ 4661 — 4673) › § 4666 - Proof of ownership; stolen thing

The bailee cannot demand that the bailor prove that he is the owner of the thing bailed.
Nevertheless, should he discover that the thing has been stolen and who is its true owner, he must inform the latter of the depositum.
If the owner, notwithstanding this, does not claim the depositum within the term of one month, the bailee shall be free from any liability by returning the thing bailed to the person from whom he received it.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1671.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART XI - Depositum (§§ 4621 — 4715) › Chapter 349 - Depositum Properly Speaking (§§ 4641 — 4694) › Subchapter III - Obligations to Bailee (§§ 4661 — 4673) › § 4667 - Rights of bailors when not joint and thing divisible; joint bailors or indivisible thing

If there are two (2) or more bailors, and they should not be joint and the thing can be divided, each one can demand his part only.
When they are joint bailors, or the thing does not admit of division, the provisions of §§ 3105 and 3106 of this title shall govern.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1672.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART XI - Depositum (§§ 4621 — 4715) › Chapter 349 - Depositum Properly Speaking (§§ 4641 — 4694) › Subchapter III - Obligations to Bailee (§§ 4661 — 4673) › § 4668 - Loss of capacity to contract by bailor

When the bailor loses his capacity to contract, after having made the depositum, the latter cannot be returned except to the persons who have the administration of his property and rights.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1673.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART XI - Depositum (§§ 4621 — 4715) › Chapter 349 - Depositum Properly Speaking (§§ 4641 — 4694) › Subchapter III - Obligations to Bailee (§§ 4661 — 4673) › § 4669 - Place for return of thing

When, on making the depositum, a place was designated for the return of the thing bailed, the bailee must take the thing bailed to such place; but the expense incurred by the conveyance shall be charged to the bailor.
Should no place have been designated for the return, it shall be made at the place where the thing bailed may be, even should it not be the same place where the depositum was made, provided there was no malice on the part of the bailee.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1674.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART XI - Depositum (§§ 4621 — 4715) › Chapter 349 - Depositum Properly Speaking (§§ 4641 — 4694) › Subchapter III - Obligations to Bailee (§§ 4661 — 4673) › § 4670 - Return upon demand of bailor

The depositum shall be returned to the bailor when he claims it, even though a specified term or time for such return may have been fixed in the contract.
This provision shall not be observed when the depositum in the possession of the bailee has been judicially attached, or should the latter have been notified of the objection of a third person to the return or to the transfer of the thing bailed.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1675.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART XI - Depositum (§§ 4621 — 4715) › Chapter 349 - Depositum Properly Speaking (§§ 4641 — 4694) › Subchapter III - Obligations to Bailee (§§ 4661 — 4673) › § 4671 - Return by bailee

The bailee, who may have sufficient reasons for not keeping the depositum, may, even before the term designated, return it to the bailor, and if the latter refuses it, he may obtain its consignation from the judge.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1676.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART XI - Depositum (§§ 4621 — 4715) › Chapter 349 - Depositum Properly Speaking (§§ 4641 — 4694) › Subchapter III - Obligations to Bailee (§§ 4661 — 4673) › § 4672 - Loss of thing through force majeure and receipt of another

The bailee, who may have lost the thing bailed through force majeure and received another in its place, shall be obliged to deliver the latter to the bailor.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1677.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART XI - Depositum (§§ 4621 — 4715) › Chapter 349 - Depositum Properly Speaking (§§ 4641 — 4694) › Subchapter III - Obligations to Bailee (§§ 4661 — 4673) › § 4673 - Obligation of heir of bailee selling thing bailed

The heir of the bailee, who, in good faith, may have sold the thing which he did not know was bailed, is only obliged to return the price he may have received or to assign his actions against the purchaser in case the price should not have been paid to him.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1678.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART XI - Depositum (§§ 4621 — 4715) › Chapter 349 - Depositum Properly Speaking (§§ 4641 — 4694) › Subchapter IV - Obligations of Bailor (§§ 4681 — 4682) › § 4681 - Reimbursement for expenses and indemnity for injuries

A bailor is obliged to reimburse the bailee for the expenses he may have incurred in the preservation of the thing bailed, and to indemnify him for all the injuries he may have suffered by reason of the depositum.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1679.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART XI - Depositum (§§ 4621 — 4715) › Chapter 349 - Depositum Properly Speaking (§§ 4641 — 4694) › Subchapter IV - Obligations of Bailor (§§ 4681 — 4682) › § 4682 - Retention of thing by bailee until payment

The bailee may retain the thing bailed until the full payment of what is due him by reason of the depositum.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1680.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART XI - Depositum (§§ 4621 — 4715) › Chapter 349 - Depositum Properly Speaking (§§ 4641 — 4694) › Subchapter V - Necessary Depositum (§§ 4691 — 4694) › § 4691 - When depositum necessary

A depositum is necessary:
(1) When made in compliance with a legal obligation.
(2) When it takes place on account of any calamity, such as fire, ruin, pillage, shipwreck, or other similar cases.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1681.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART XI - Depositum (§§ 4621 — 4715) › Chapter 349 - Depositum Properly Speaking (§§ 4641 — 4694) › Subchapter V - Necessary Depositum (§§ 4691 — 4694) › § 4692 - Provisions governing

The depositum included in subsection (1) of § 4691 of this title shall be governed by the provisions of the law which establishes it, and, in the absence thereof, by those of voluntary depositum.
Those included in subsection (2) shall be governed by the rules of voluntary depositum.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1682.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART XI - Depositum (§§ 4621 — 4715) › Chapter 349 - Depositum Properly Speaking (§§ 4641 — 4694) › Subchapter V - Necessary Depositum (§§ 4691 — 4694) › § 4693 - Depositum of goods by travelers in inns; liability of keepers

The depositum of goods made by travelers in inns or hostelries shall also be considered a necessary one. The keepers of inns and hostelries are liable for them as such bailees, provided that notice thereof may have been given to them or to their employees, and that the travelers on their part take the precautions which said inn-keepers or their substitutes may have advised them concerning the care and vigilance of said goods.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1683.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART XI - Depositum (§§ 4621 — 4715) › Chapter 349 - Depositum Properly Speaking (§§ 4641 — 4694) › Subchapter V - Necessary Depositum (§§ 4691 — 4694) › § 4694 - Loss of thing loaned—Extent of liability

The liability referred to in § 4693 of this title shall include damages to the goods of the travelers caused by servants or employees of the keepers of inns or hostelries as well as by strangers, but not those arising from robbery or which may be caused by any other case of force majeure.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1684.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART XI - Depositum (§§ 4621 — 4715) › Chapter 351 - Sequestration (§§ 4711 — 4715) › § 4711 - When sequestration takes place

A judicial deposit or sequestration takes place when an attachment or placing in security of property in litigation is ordered.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1685.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART XI - Depositum (§§ 4621 — 4715) › Chapter 351 - Sequestration (§§ 4711 — 4715) › § 4712 - Property subject to sequestration

Personal as well as real property may be subject to sequestration.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1686.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART XI - Depositum (§§ 4621 — 4715) › Chapter 351 - Sequestration (§§ 4711 — 4715) › § 4713 - Release of bailee from charge

The bailee of the property of things sequestrated cannot be released from his charge until the controversy which caused it is ended, unless the court or judge order it on account of the consent of all the persons interested, or for any other legal cause.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1687.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART XI - Depositum (§§ 4621 — 4715) › Chapter 351 - Sequestration (§§ 4711 — 4715) › § 4714 - Obligations of bailee

The bailee of property sequestrated is obliged to comply with regard thereto with all the obligations of a good father of a family.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1688.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART XI - Depositum (§§ 4621 — 4715) › Chapter 351 - Sequestration (§§ 4711 — 4715) › § 4715 - Provisions governing judicial sequestration

Judicial sequestration shall be governed by the provisions of the Law of Civil Procedure in whatever is not prescribed in this title.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1689.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART XII - Aleatory Contracts or Those Depending on Chance (§§ 4741 — 4797) › Chapter 355 - General Provisions (§ 4741) › § 4741 - Aleatory contract defined

By an aleatory contract one of the parties binds himself, or both mutually bind themselves, to give or do something as an equivalent for what the other party is to give or do in case of the occurrence of an event which is uncertain or may happen at an undetermined time.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1690.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART XII - Aleatory Contracts or Those Depending on Chance (§§ 4741 — 4797) › Chapter 357 - Insurance Contract [Repealed] (§ 4751-4757) › §§ 4751—4757 - Repealed. Act June 19, 1957, No. 77, p. 183, § 41.010, eff, Jan. 1, 1958

History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1690.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART XII - Aleatory Contracts or Those Depending on Chance (§§ 4741 — 4797) › Chapter 359 - Gambling and Betting (§§ 4771 — 4774) › § 4771 - Rights of winner and loser

The law does not permit any action to claim what is won in a game of chance, luck, or hazard; but the person who loses cannot recover what he may have voluntarily paid, unless there should have been fraud, or should he be a minor or incapacitated to administer his property.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1698.