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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VI - Contracts of Lease (§§ 4011 — 4143) › Chapter 303 - Leases of Rural and Town Property (§§ 4031 — 4093) › Subchapter IV - Special Provisions for Lease of Town Property (§§ 4091 — 4093) › § 4091 - Repairs of town property

In the absence of a special agreement for the repairs of town property, which should be borne by the owner, the customs of the place shall be observed. In case of doubt, they shall be understood as for the account of the owner.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1470.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VI - Contracts of Lease (§§ 4011 — 4143) › Chapter 303 - Leases of Rural and Town Property (§§ 4031 — 4093) › Subchapter IV - Special Provisions for Lease of Town Property (§§ 4091 — 4093) › § 4092 - Duration of lease if term not fixed

Should a term not have been fixed for the lease, it is understood for years, when an annual rent has been fixed, for months, when the rent is monthly, and for days, when it is daily.
In every case the lease ceases without the necessity of a special notice upon the expiration of the term.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1471.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VI - Contracts of Lease (§§ 4011 — 4143) › Chapter 303 - Leases of Rural and Town Property (§§ 4031 — 4093) › Subchapter IV - Special Provisions for Lease of Town Property (§§ 4091 — 4093) › § 4093 - Lease of furniture

If the lessor of a house, or of a part thereof, destined for a dwelling for a family, or of a store or warehouse or industrial establishment, leases the furniture also, the lease of the latter shall be understood as executed for a time equal to that of the house leased.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1472.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VI - Contracts of Lease (§§ 4011 — 4143) › Chapter 305 - Hiring of Work and Services (§§ 4111 — 4143) › Subchapter I - Professional Services, and Services of Paid Servants and Laborers (§§ 4111 — 4115) › § 4111 - Period of contract for services; remuneration

The services of servants and laborers may be contracted for a fixed period of time, or without a fixed period. A hiring for life shall be void. Professional services, as regards the remuneration therefor, shall be subject to the agreement of the parties; and where there is no agreement as to remuneration, and a disagreement should arise respecting the same, the party entitled to such remuneration may sue and recover from the adverse party the reasonable value of such services in any court of competent jurisdiction.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1473.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VI - Contracts of Lease (§§ 4011 — 4143) › Chapter 305 - Hiring of Work and Services (§§ 4111 — 4143) › Subchapter I - Professional Services, and Services of Paid Servants and Laborers (§§ 4111 — 4115) › § 4112 - Domestic servant leaving or dismissed before expiration of term

A person employed for domestic service, whether for the personal service of the head of the family or for the general service of the household, whose service contract is for a specified time, may leave such service or be dismissed before the expiration of the term of the contract; but if the employer dismisses the employee subject to these conditions without just cause, he shall indemnify said employee by paying him the wages due and those for fifteen (15) additional days.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1474.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VI - Contracts of Lease (§§ 4011 — 4143) › Chapter 305 - Hiring of Work and Services (§§ 4111 — 4143) › Subchapter I - Professional Services, and Services of Paid Servants and Laborers (§§ 4111 — 4115) › § 4113 - Special laws and regulations

In addition to the provisions of the foregoing sections in regard to contracts between employers and employees for domestic service, the provisions of special laws and regulations shall be observed.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1475.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VI - Contracts of Lease (§§ 4011 — 4143) › Chapter 305 - Hiring of Work and Services (§§ 4111 — 4143) › Subchapter I - Professional Services, and Services of Paid Servants and Laborers (§§ 4111 — 4115) › § 4114 - Field hands, mechanics, artisans, and other laborers

Field hands, mechanics, artisans and other laborers hired for a certain time or for a certain work cannot leave nor be dismissed without just cause before the contract is completed.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1476.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VI - Contracts of Lease (§§ 4011 — 4143) › Chapter 305 - Hiring of Work and Services (§§ 4111 — 4143) › Subchapter I - Professional Services, and Services of Paid Servants and Laborers (§§ 4111 — 4115) › § 4115 - Field hands, mechanics, artisans, and other laborers—Dispossession of tools and buildings

The dismissal of field hands, mechanics, artisans and other hired laborers to which §§ 4111-4114 of this title refer, gives the right to dispossess them of all tools and buildings which they may occupy under the contract.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1477.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VI - Contracts of Lease (§§ 4011 — 4143) › Chapter 305 - Hiring of Work and Services (§§ 4111 — 4143) › Subchapter II - Works at Price Agreed Upon or for Lump Sum (§§ 4121 — 4133) › § 4121 - Contract for work and materials

The execution of a work may be contracted for by agreeing that the person who is to execute the same shall give his labor or industry only, or that he furnish the materials also.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1480.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VI - Contracts of Lease (§§ 4011 — 4143) › Chapter 305 - Hiring of Work and Services (§§ 4111 — 4143) › Subchapter II - Works at Price Agreed Upon or for Lump Sum (§§ 4121 — 4133) › § 4122 - Destruction of work before delivery

If the person who contracted for the work bound himself to furnish the materials, he shall suffer the loss in case of the destruction of the work before it is delivered, unless there has been delay in receiving it.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1481.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VI - Contracts of Lease (§§ 4011 — 4143) › Chapter 305 - Hiring of Work and Services (§§ 4111 — 4143) › Subchapter II - Works at Price Agreed Upon or for Lump Sum (§§ 4121 — 4133) › § 4123 - Field hands, mechanics, artisans, and other laborers—When contractor cannot demand payment

A person who has bound himself to give his labor or industry only cannot demand any payment if the work is destroyed before it is delivered, unless there should have been delay in receiving the same, or if the destruction should have been due to the bad quality of the materials, provided that he may have given due notice of this circumstance to the owner.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1482.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VI - Contracts of Lease (§§ 4011 — 4143) › Chapter 305 - Hiring of Work and Services (§§ 4111 — 4143) › Subchapter II - Works at Price Agreed Upon or for Lump Sum (§§ 4121 — 4133) › § 4124 - Liability of contractor and architect for collapse of building

The contractor of a building which may have been destroyed by reason of defects in the construction shall be liable for the losses and damages if said building should collapse within ten (10) years, to be counted from the completion of the construction; and during the same time the same liability shall be incurred by the architect who may have directed the work if the collapse is due to defects in the ground or in the direction.
If the cause should be the noncompliance of the contractor with the conditions of the contract, the action for indemnity may be brought within fifteen (15) years.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1483.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VI - Contracts of Lease (§§ 4011 — 4143) › Chapter 305 - Hiring of Work and Services (§§ 4111 — 4143) › Subchapter II - Works at Price Agreed Upon or for Lump Sum (§§ 4121 — 4133) › § 4125 - Work by piece or measure

A person who binds himself to do a work by piece or by measure may demand of the owner that he receive it in instalments, and that he pay therefor in proportion. The part paid for shall be presumed as approved and received.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1484.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VI - Contracts of Lease (§§ 4011 — 4143) › Chapter 305 - Hiring of Work and Services (§§ 4111 — 4143) › Subchapter II - Works at Price Agreed Upon or for Lump Sum (§§ 4121 — 4133) › § 4126 - Increase in price of construction

An architect or contractor who, for a lump sum, takes charge of the construction of a building, or of any other work, in view of a plan agreed upon with the owner of the ground, cannot demand an increase in the price, even if that of the materials or wages has increased, but he may do so when any change increasing the work should be made in the plans, provided the owner has given his authorization.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1485.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VI - Contracts of Lease (§§ 4011 — 4143) › Chapter 305 - Hiring of Work and Services (§§ 4111 — 4143) › Subchapter II - Works at Price Agreed Upon or for Lump Sum (§§ 4121 — 4133) › § 4127 - Discontinuance of work by owner

The owner may desist, by his own will, from the construction of the work, even when it has been begun, indemnifying the contractor for all the expenses, labor, and profits which he may have obtained from the same.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1486.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VI - Contracts of Lease (§§ 4011 — 4143) › Chapter 305 - Hiring of Work and Services (§§ 4111 — 4143) › Subchapter II - Works at Price Agreed Upon or for Lump Sum (§§ 4121 — 4133) › § 4128 - Death of contractor; inability to finish work for other causes

When a certain work has been entrusted to a person by reason of his personal qualifications, the contract is rescinded by the death of said person.
In such case, the owner must pay to the heirs of the constructor, in proportion to the price agreed upon, the value of the part of the work executed, and that of the prepared materials, provided he may obtain any benefit from such materials.
The same shall be understood if the person who contracted for the work cannot finish it by reason of any cause independent of his will.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1487.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VI - Contracts of Lease (§§ 4011 — 4143) › Chapter 305 - Hiring of Work and Services (§§ 4111 — 4143) › Subchapter II - Works at Price Agreed Upon or for Lump Sum (§§ 4121 — 4133) › § 4129 - Liability of contractor for work of employees

A contractor is responsible for the work done by the persons he employs thereon.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1488.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VI - Contracts of Lease (§§ 4011 — 4143) › Chapter 305 - Hiring of Work and Services (§§ 4111 — 4143) › Subchapter II - Works at Price Agreed Upon or for Lump Sum (§§ 4121 — 4133) › § 4130 - Action against owner by persons furnishing labor and materials for work by contractor

Those who furnish their labor and materials in a work agreed upon for a lump sum by a contractor have no action against the owner, except for the amount the latter may owe the former when the action is brought.
—Civil Code, 1930, § 1489.
History
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VI - Contracts of Lease (§§ 4011 — 4143) › Chapter 305 - Hiring of Work and Services (§§ 4111 — 4143) › Subchapter II - Works at Price Agreed Upon or for Lump Sum (§§ 4121 — 4133) › § 4131 - Approval of work

When it should be agreed that the work is to be done to the satisfaction of the owner, in the absence of his acceptance the approval is understood as reserved for the proper expert judgment.
If the person who has to approve the work is a third person, his decision shall be final.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1490.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VI - Contracts of Lease (§§ 4011 — 4143) › Chapter 305 - Hiring of Work and Services (§§ 4111 — 4143) › Subchapter II - Works at Price Agreed Upon or for Lump Sum (§§ 4121 — 4133) › § 4132 - Payment upon delivery

Should there be no agreement or custom to the contrary, the price for the work must be paid upon delivery.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1491.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VI - Contracts of Lease (§§ 4011 — 4143) › Chapter 305 - Hiring of Work and Services (§§ 4111 — 4143) › Subchapter II - Works at Price Agreed Upon or for Lump Sum (§§ 4121 — 4133) › § 4133 - Retention of work as pledge for payment

A person who has executed a work on personal property has the right to retain the same as a pledge until he is paid therefor.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1492.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VI - Contracts of Lease (§§ 4011 — 4143) › Chapter 305 - Hiring of Work and Services (§§ 4111 — 4143) › Subchapter III - Transportation by Land and Water of Persons and Things (§§ 4141 — 4143) › § 4141 - Obligations of carriers of goods as to care and preservation

Carriers of goods by land or by water shall be subject with regard to the keeping and preservation of the things entrusted to them, to the same obligations as determined for innkeepers by §§ 4693 and 4694 of this title.
The provisions of this section shall be understood without prejudice to what is prescribed by §§ 1001 et seq. of Title 10 with regard to transportation by sea and land.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1493.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VI - Contracts of Lease (§§ 4011 — 4143) › Chapter 305 - Hiring of Work and Services (§§ 4111 — 4143) › Subchapter III - Transportation by Land and Water of Persons and Things (§§ 4141 — 4143) › § 4142 - Liability for loss or damage

Carriers are also liable for the loss of and damage to the things which they receive, unless they prove that the loss or damage arose from a fortuitous event or force majeure.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1494.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VI - Contracts of Lease (§§ 4011 — 4143) › Chapter 305 - Hiring of Work and Services (§§ 4111 — 4143) › Subchapter III - Transportation by Land and Water of Persons and Things (§§ 4141 — 4143) › § 4143 - Special laws and regulations

The provisions of these sections are understood without prejudice to the provisions of special laws and regulations.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1495.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 309 - General Provisions (§§ 4171 — 4194) › § 4171 - Annuity defined

An annuity (censo) is constituted when any real property is subjected to the payment of a pension or annual income in compensation for a capital which is received in cash, or for the full or partial ownership of the property which is conveyed.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1496.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 309 - General Provisions (§§ 4171 — 4194) › § 4172 - Emphyteutic annuity

An annuity is called emphyteutic (censo enfiteutico) when a person transfers to another the beneficial ownership of an estate reserving to himself the legal ownership and a right to receive from the emphyteuticary an annual income in recognition of such ownership.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1497.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 309 - General Provisions (§§ 4171 — 4194) › § 4173 - Transferable or consignative

An annuity is transferable or consignative (censo consignativo) when the owner of land imposes upon an estate belonging to him the charge of an income or pension which he binds himself to pay to the lender for a sum in cash which he has received from the latter.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1498.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 309 - General Provisions (§§ 4171 — 4194) › § 4174 - Reservative or set apart

An annuity is reservative or set apart (censo reservativo) when a person transfers to another the full ownership of an estate, reserving to himself the right to receive from said estate an annual pension which is to be paid by the owner of the land.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1499.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 309 - General Provisions (§§ 4171 — 4194) › § 4175 - Term of annuity; redemption

The nature of the annuity requires that the transfer of the principal or of the estate should be perpetual or for an unlimited time; however, the person paying the annuity may redeem it at his will, even though the contrary should be stipulated, this provision being applicable to annuities actually existing.
It may, however, be stipulated that the redemption of the annuity cannot be made during the life of the annuitant or of a specified person, or that it may not be redeemed within a certain number of years, which cannot exceed twenty (20) in consignative annuities, nor sixty (60) years in reservative and in emphyteutic annuities.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1500.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 309 - General Provisions (§§ 4171 — 4194) › § 4176 - Notice of redemption

In order to carry out the redemption, the person paying the annuity must give notice thereof one year in advance to the annuitant or must pay to him, in advance, the amount of one year’s income.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1501.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 309 - General Provisions (§§ 4171 — 4194) › § 4177 - Partial redemption; against will of annuitant

Annuities cannot be partially redeemed except by virtue of an express agreement.
Neither can they be redeemed against the will of the annuitant unless the payment of all the income due has been made.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1502.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 309 - General Provisions (§§ 4171 — 4194) › § 4178 - Redemption of annuities constituted before promulgation of civil code of 1889

For the redemption of annuities constituted before the promulgation of the Civil Code of 1889, should the principal be unknown, it shall be regulated by the principal which may result by computing the income at three (3) percent.
If the income is paid in fruits, they shall be appraised, for the determination of the capital, at the average price they may have had during the last five (5) years.
The provisions of this section shall not apply to surface rights nor to any other similar encumbrances, which shall be governed in the manner provided for in § 4251 of this title.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1503.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 309 - General Provisions (§§ 4171 — 4194) › § 4179 - Expenses of redemption

The expenses arising from the redemption and liberation from annuities shall be borne by the person paying the same except those arising from unjustifiable opposition, in the judgment of the courts.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1504.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 309 - General Provisions (§§ 4171 — 4194) › § 4180 - Determination of income or pension of annuities

The income or pension of annuities shall be determined by the parties upon the execution of the contract.
It may consist of money or fruits.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1505.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 309 - General Provisions (§§ 4171 — 4194) › § 4181 - When pensions payable

The pensions shall be paid at the periods agreed upon and, in the absence of an agreement, if they consist of money, by the years elapsed, counted from the date of the contract; and if of fruits, at the end of the respective crops.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1506.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 309 - General Provisions (§§ 4171 — 4194) › § 4182 - Place of payment

If the place at which the income is to be paid should not have been designated in the contract, this obligation shall be complied with at the place in which the estate is charged with the annuity is located, provided the annuitant or his attorney have their domicile in the municipal district of the same town. Should this not be the case, but should the person paying the annuity reside there, the payment shall be made at the domicile of the latter.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1507.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 309 - General Provisions (§§ 4171 — 4194) › § 4183 - Annuitant can require memorandum of payment

The annuitant, at the time of the delivery of the receipt of any income, can oblige the person paying the annuity to give him a memorandum in which it may appear that the payment has been made.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1508.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 309 - General Provisions (§§ 4171 — 4194) › § 4184 - Conveyance of estates charged with annuities and right to receive income

Estates charged with annuities may be conveyed under onerous or lucrative title, as may also the right to receive the income.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1509.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 309 - General Provisions (§§ 4171 — 4194) › § 4185 - Division of estate

Estates charged with annuities cannot be divided among two (2) or more persons without the express consent of the annuitant, even when acquired by inheritance.
If the annuitant should permit the division, the part of the annuity with which each portion remains charged shall be designated with his consent, as many different annuities being constituted as there are portions in which the estate is divided.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1510.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 309 - General Provisions (§§ 4171 — 4194) › § 4186 - Award of estate to several heirs

If the estate charged with an annuity is to be awarded to several heirs, and the annuitant does not give his consent to the division, it shall be placed at auction among the heirs.
In the absence of agreement or if none of the parties in interest should offer the price of the appraisement, the estate shall be sold with the charge, the proceeds being distributed among the heirs.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1511.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 309 - General Provisions (§§ 4171 — 4194) › § 4187 - Prescription of principal and income

The principal, as well as the income of annuities prescribes in accordance with the provisions of §§ 5241 to 5305 of this title.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1512.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 309 - General Provisions (§§ 4171 — 4194) › § 4188 - Presumption of payment

Notwithstanding the provisions of § 3027 of this title, the payment of two (2) consecutive incomes shall be necessary to presume that all the preceding ones have been paid.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1513.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 309 - General Provisions (§§ 4171 — 4194) › § 4189 - Taxes and other charges

The person paying the annuity is obliged to pay the taxes and other charges affecting the estate charged with the annuity.
In paying the income, he may deduct therefrom the part of the charges to be paid by the annuitant.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1514.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 309 - General Provisions (§§ 4171 — 4194) › § 4190 - Real and personal actions by annuitant

Annuities give rise to a real action against the estate charged. Besides the real action, the annuitant may bring a personal action for the payment of the income in arrears and for damages and interest when proper.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1515.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 309 - General Provisions (§§ 4171 — 4194) › § 4191 - Sterility of estate or loss of fruits

The person paying the annuity cannot ask for the remission or reduction of the income on account of an accidental sterility of the estate nor on account of the loss of its fruits.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1516.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 309 - General Provisions (§§ 4171 — 4194) › § 4192 - Extinction of annuity upon destruction of estate

When an estate charged with an annuity is totally destroyed or rendered useless by force majeure or by a fortuitous event, the annuity shall be extinguished, the payment of the pension discontinuing.
If it is destroyed in part only, the person paying the annuity shall not be exempt from the payment of the pension, unless he prefers to abandon the estate to the annuitant.
When there is fault on the part of the person paying the annuity, he shall be bound, in either case, to indemnify for losses and damages.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1517.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 309 - General Provisions (§§ 4171 — 4194) › § 4193 - Application of insurance to payment of principal and income

In the case of the first paragraph of § 4192 of this title, if the estate should be insured, the amount of the insurance shall be liable for the payment of the principal of the annuity and of the incomes due, unless the person paying the annuity should prefer to invest it in rebuilding the estate, in which case the annuity shall revive with all its effects, including the payment of the unpaid income. The annuitant may demand of the person paying the annuity that he secure the investment of the amount of the insurance in the rebuilding of the estate.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1518.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 309 - General Provisions (§§ 4171 — 4194) › § 4194 - Taking of estate by eminent domain

If the estate charged with an annuity is taken by eminent domain, its price shall remain liable for the payment of the principal of the annuity and of the pensions due, said annuity being extinguished.
The foregoing provisions are also applicable in the case in which the taking by eminent domain is of a part of the estate only, should its price be sufficient to cover the principal of the annuity.
Should it not be sufficient, the annuity shall continue to be charged on the remainder of the estate, provided its price be sufficient to cover the principal of the annuity and twenty-five (25) percent in addition. In any other case the person paying the annuity shall be bound either to substitute the part taken with another security or to redeem the annuity, at his option, without prejudice to the provisions of section 4214 of this title, with regard to emphyteutic annuities.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1519.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 311 - Emphyteutic Annuities (§§ 4211 — 4251) › Subchapter I - Provisions Referring to Emphyteusis (§§ 4211 — 4237) › § 4211 - Establishment of emphyteutic annuity

An emphyteutic annuity can only be charged on real property and in a public instrument.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1520.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 311 - Emphyteutic Annuities (§§ 4211 — 4251) › Subchapter I - Provisions Referring to Emphyteusis (§§ 4211 — 4237) › § 4212 - Value of estate and income must be fixed

At the time of the constitution of the emphyteutic annuity the value of the estate and the annual income to be paid shall be fixed in the contract, under the penalty of nullity.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1521.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 311 - Emphyteutic Annuities (§§ 4211 — 4251) › Subchapter I - Provisions Referring to Emphyteusis (§§ 4211 — 4237) › § 4213 - Fixed amount or aliquot part of fruits

If the pension should consist of a fixed amount of fruits, the kind and quality thereof shall be determined in the contract.
Should it consist of an aliquot part of those the estate may produce, in the absence of an express stipulation as to the intervention which the legal owner may exercise, the emphyteuticary shall give to said owner or his representative previous notice of the day on which he intends to commence the gathering of each kind of fruit, in order that he may, either personally or through his representative, inspect all the operations until he receives the share belonging to him.
After the notice has been given, the emphyteuticary may gather the crops, even when neither the legal owner nor his representative or agent is present.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1522.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 311 - Emphyteutic Annuities (§§ 4211 — 4251) › Subchapter I - Provisions Referring to Emphyteusis (§§ 4211 — 4237) › § 4214 - Provisions in case of eminent domain

In case of the exercise of eminent domain, the provisions of the first paragraph of § 4194 of this title shall be observed if the entire estate should be thus taken.
Should it be thus taken only in part, the price of what has been taken shall be divided between the legal and beneficial owner, the former receiving the part of the principal of the annuity, which proportionally belongs to the part taken, according to the value given to the entire estate when the annuity was constituted, or which served as a basis for the redemption, and the remainder shall belong to the emphyteuticary.
In this case the annuity shall continue on the rest of the estate, with the proper reduction of the principal and the pensions, unless the emphyteuticary chooses between the total redemption or the abandonment in favor of the legal owner.
If, in accordance with what has been agreed upon, laudemio is to be paid, the legal owner shall receive that, which for this reason pertains to him, only from the part of the price belonging to the emphyteuticary.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1523.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 311 - Emphyteutic Annuities (§§ 4211 — 4251) › Subchapter I - Provisions Referring to Emphyteusis (§§ 4211 — 4237) › § 4215 - Right to products, accessions, treasure, and mines

The products of the estate and of its accessions belong to the emphyteuticary.
He has the same rights which the owner would have in the treasure and mines which may be discovered on the estate charged with the emphyteusis.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1524.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 311 - Emphyteutic Annuities (§§ 4211 — 4251) › Subchapter I - Provisions Referring to Emphyteusis (§§ 4211 — 4237) › § 4216 - Disposition of emphyteutic estate

The emphyteuticary may dispose of the emphyteutic estate and of its accessions by acts inter vivos as well as by last will, reserving the rights of the legal owner, and subject to the provisions of §§ 4217 et seq. of this title.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1525.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 311 - Emphyteutic Annuities (§§ 4211 — 4251) › Subchapter I - Provisions Referring to Emphyteusis (§§ 4211 — 4237) › § 4217 - Easements or charges diminishing fruits

If the pension should consist of an aliquot part of the fruits of the emphyteutic estate, neither an easement nor any other charge which may diminish the proceeds of the same shall be imposed upon it without the express consent of the legal owner.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1526.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 311 - Emphyteutic Annuities (§§ 4211 — 4251) › Subchapter I - Provisions Referring to Emphyteusis (§§ 4211 — 4237) › § 4218 - Gift or exchange of estate

The emphyteuticary may freely bestow as a gift or exchange the estate, giving notice thereof to the legal owner.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1527.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 311 - Emphyteutic Annuities (§§ 4211 — 4251) › Subchapter I - Provisions Referring to Emphyteusis (§§ 4211 — 4237) › § 4219 - Mutual rights of preemption and redemption

The legal and beneficial owners have the mutual right of preemption and of redemption, provided they sell or give in payment their respective ownership of the emphyteutic estate.
This provision is not applicable to obligatory alienations, for reasons of public utility.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1528.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 311 - Emphyteutic Annuities (§§ 4211 — 4251) › Subchapter I - Provisions Referring to Emphyteusis (§§ 4211 — 4237) › § 4220 - Notice of intention to alienate estate

For the purposes of § 4219 of this title, a person desiring to alienate the ownership of an estate held in emphyteusis must give notice thereof to the other co-owner, stating the final price which may be offered to him, or the one for which he desires to alienate his ownership.
Within the twenty (20) days following the notice, the co-owner may make use of the right of preemption by paying the price indicated. Should he not do so, he shall lose said right and the alienation may take place.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1529.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 311 - Emphyteutic Annuities (§§ 4211 — 4251) › Subchapter I - Provisions Referring to Emphyteusis (§§ 4211 — 4237) › § 4221 - Right of redemption if right of preemption not exercised

If the legal owner or the emphyteuticary, in a proper case, should not have made use of the right of preemption to which § 4220 of this title refers, he may make use of that of redemption to acquire the estate for the price at which it has been sold.
In such case the redemption must be made use of within the nine (9) working days following that of the execution of the bill of sale. If said sale should be concealed, said period shall be counted from the record thereof in the registry of property.
Concealment is presumed when the instrument is not filed in the registry within the nine (9) days following that of its execution.
Besides this presumption, the concealment may be proven by any other legal means.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1530.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 311 - Emphyteutic Annuities (§§ 4211 — 4251) › Subchapter I - Provisions Referring to Emphyteusis (§§ 4211 — 4237) › § 4222 - Time for redemption after alienation without notice

If the alienation has taken place without the previous notice prescribed in § 4220 of this title, the legal owner, and, in a proper case, the beneficial owner may exercise the action of redemption at any time, until one (1) year has elapsed, to be counted from the day the alienation is entered in the registry of property.
History —Civil code, 1930, § 1531.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 311 - Emphyteutic Annuities (§§ 4211 — 4251) › Subchapter I - Provisions Referring to Emphyteusis (§§ 4211 — 4237) › § 4223 - Preemption and redemption in judicial sales

In judicial sales of emphyteutic estates, the legal owner and the beneficial one, in their respective cases, may make use of the right of preemption within the period fixed in the notices of the sale at auction, paying the price which may serve as a basis for the auction and that of the redemption within the nine (9) working days following that of the execution of the instrument.
In such case, the previous notice required by § 4220 of this title shall not be necessary.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1532.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 311 - Emphyteutic Annuities (§§ 4211 — 4251) › Subchapter I - Provisions Referring to Emphyteusis (§§ 4211 — 4237) › § 4224 - Alienation of several estates charged with same annuity

If there are several estates alienated, charged with the same annuity, the right of preemption or that of redemption cannot be exercised with regard to some of them and to the exclusion of others.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1533.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 311 - Emphyteutic Annuities (§§ 4211 — 4251) › Subchapter I - Provisions Referring to Emphyteusis (§§ 4211 — 4237) › § 4225 - Right of redemption of owners pro indiviso

When the legal or beneficial ownership is vested in several persons pro indiviso, each one of them may make use of the right of redemption subject to the rules established for that of owners in common, preference being given to the legal owner if a part of the beneficial ownership should have been alienated, or to the emphyteuticary if the alienation should have been of the legal ownership.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1534.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 311 - Emphyteutic Annuities (§§ 4211 — 4251) › Subchapter I - Provisions Referring to Emphyteusis (§§ 4211 — 4237) › § 4226 - When emphyteuticary disturbed in right may claim indemnity

If the emphyteuticary should be disturbed in his right by a third party who disputes the legal ownership or the validity of the emphyteusis, he cannot claim the corresponding indemnity from the legal owner if he does not summon him for the eviction, in accordance with the provisions of section 3838 of this title.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1535.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 311 - Emphyteutic Annuities (§§ 4211 — 4251) › Subchapter I - Provisions Referring to Emphyteusis (§§ 4211 — 4237) › § 4227 - Payment of laudemio to legal owner

In alienations for a valuable consideration of emphyteutic estates, laudemio shall be paid to the legal owner only when it has been expressly stipulated in the contract of emphyteusis.
If, when it has been stipulated, a fixed sum has not been specified, it shall consist of two (2) percent of the price of the alienation.
In emphyteusis prior to the promulgation of this Code, which may be subject to the payment of laudemio, even though it should not have been stipulated, this prestation shall continue in the usual manner, but it shall not exceed two (2) percent of the price of the alienation, unless a higher one has been expressly agreed upon.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1536.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 311 - Emphyteutic Annuities (§§ 4211 — 4251) › Subchapter I - Provisions Referring to Emphyteusis (§§ 4211 — 4237) › § 4228 - Obligation to pay laudemio

The obligation to pay laudemio pertains to the person acquiring the estate, unless there is a stipulation to the contrary.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1537.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 311 - Emphyteutic Annuities (§§ 4211 — 4251) › Subchapter I - Provisions Referring to Emphyteusis (§§ 4211 — 4237) › § 4229 - Prescription of action for laudemio

If the emphyteuticary should have obtained permission from the legal owner for the alienation, or should have given him the previous notice prescribed in § 4220 of this title, the legal owner cannot demand the payment of laudemio except within a year following the day on which the public instrument is entered in the registry of property. With the exception of these cases this action shall be subject to ordinary prescription.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1538.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 311 - Emphyteutic Annuities (§§ 4211 — 4251) › Subchapter I - Provisions Referring to Emphyteusis (§§ 4211 — 4237) › § 4230 - Acknowledgment of right of legal owner

The legal owner may every twenty-nine (29) years demand the acknowledgment of his right by the person who is in possession of the emphyteutic estate.
The expenses of the acknowledgment shall be borne by the emphyteuticary, but no other prestation whatever, for this reason, shall be required of him.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1539.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 311 - Emphyteutic Annuities (§§ 4211 — 4251) › Subchapter I - Provisions Referring to Emphyteusis (§§ 4211 — 4237) › § 4231 - Forfeiture and restitution of estate

The estate shall be forfeited and the legal owner may demand its restitution:
(1) By nonpayment of the pension for three (3) consecutive years.
(2) If the emphyteuticary does not comply with the conditions stipulated in the contract or seriously impairs the estate.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1540.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 311 - Emphyteutic Annuities (§§ 4211 — 4251) › Subchapter I - Provisions Referring to Emphyteusis (§§ 4211 — 4237) › § 4232 - Demand for payment prior to forfeiture

In order that the legal owner may demand the forfeiture in the first case of § 4231 of this title, he must demand payment of the emphyteuticary, either judicially or through a notary, and should the latter not pay within the thirty (30) days following the demand the right of the owner may be freely exercised.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1541.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 311 - Emphyteutic Annuities (§§ 4211 — 4251) › Subchapter I - Provisions Referring to Emphyteusis (§§ 4211 — 4237) › § 4233 - Redemption after forfeiture

The emphyteuticary may free himself from the forfeiture, in every case, by redeeming the annuity and paying the pensions due within the thirty (30) days following the formal demand for the payment or the summons for the suit.
The creditors of the emphyteuticary may make use of the same right within thirty (30) days following that on which the legal owner may have recovered the full ownership.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1542.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART VII - Annuities (Censos) › Chapter 311 - Emphyteutic Annuities (§§ 4211 — 4251) › Subchapter I - Provisions Referring to Emphyteusis (§§ 4211 — 4237) › § 4234 - Redemption of emphyteusis

The redemption of the emphyteusis shall consist in a payment of cash in full to the legal owner for the principal which may have been fixed as the value of the estate at the time of the constitution of the annuity, and no other prestation can be exacted, unless it should have been stipulated.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1543.