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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IV - Contracts of Purchase and Sale (§§ 3741 — 3961) › Chapter 289 - Rescission of Sale (§§ 3891 — 3925) › Subchapter I - Conventional Redemption (§§ 3901 — 3915) › § 3902 - Duration of right

The right referred to in the preceding section, in the absence of an express agreement, shall last four (4) years counted from the date of the contract.
Should there be an agreement, the period shall not exceed ten (10) years.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1397.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IV - Contracts of Purchase and Sale (§§ 3741 — 3961) › Chapter 289 - Rescission of Sale (§§ 3891 — 3925) › Subchapter I - Conventional Redemption (§§ 3901 — 3915) › § 3903 - When vendee acquires ownership

If the vendor should not comply with the provision of section 3912 of this title, the vendee shall irrevocably acquire the ownership of the thing sold.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1398.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IV - Contracts of Purchase and Sale (§§ 3741 — 3961) › Chapter 289 - Rescission of Sale (§§ 3891 — 3925) › Subchapter I - Conventional Redemption (§§ 3901 — 3915) › § 3904 - Action against subsequent possessors

The vendor may bring his action against every possessor whose right arises from that of the vendee, even though in the second contract no mention should have been made of the conventional redemption; without prejudice to the provisions of the Mortgage Law, Title 30, with regard to third persons.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1399.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IV - Contracts of Purchase and Sale (§§ 3741 — 3961) › Chapter 289 - Rescission of Sale (§§ 3891 — 3925) › Subchapter I - Conventional Redemption (§§ 3901 — 3915) › § 3905 - Vendee substitutes vendor

The vendee substitutes the vendor in all his rights and actions.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1400.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IV - Contracts of Purchase and Sale (§§ 3741 — 3961) › Chapter 289 - Rescission of Sale (§§ 3891 — 3925) › Subchapter I - Conventional Redemption (§§ 3901 — 3915) › § 3906 - Conventional redemption by creditors of vendor

The creditors of the vendor can only make use of the conventional redemption against the vendee after having levied upon the property of the vendor.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1401.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IV - Contracts of Purchase and Sale (§§ 3741 — 3961) › Chapter 289 - Rescission of Sale (§§ 3891 — 3925) › Subchapter I - Conventional Redemption (§§ 3901 — 3915) › § 3907 - When vendee can oblige vendor to redeem entire estate if part only subject to resale

A vendee who has made an agreement of resale of a part of an undivided estate and who should acquire the whole estate, in the case of § 1283 of this title, may oblige the vendor to redeem the whole estate, if the latter wishes to make use of the redemption.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1402.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IV - Contracts of Purchase and Sale (§§ 3741 — 3961) › Chapter 289 - Rescission of Sale (§§ 3891 — 3925) › Subchapter I - Conventional Redemption (§§ 3901 — 3915) › § 3908 - Sale of undivided estate under condition of redemption

If several persons, jointly and in the same contract, should sell an undivided estate under condition of redemption, none of them can exercise this right for more than his respective share.
The same shall be observed if the person alone who has sold an estate has left several heirs, in which case each of the latter can only redeem the part which he may have acquired.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1403.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IV - Contracts of Purchase and Sale (§§ 3741 — 3961) › Chapter 289 - Rescission of Sale (§§ 3891 — 3925) › Subchapter I - Conventional Redemption (§§ 3901 — 3915) › § 3909 - Vendee not forced to partial redemption

In the cases of § 3908 of this title, the vendee may demand of all the vendors and coheirs that they come to an agreement with regard to the redemption of the whole of the thing sold; and should they not do so, the vendee cannot be forced to a partial redemption.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1404.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IV - Contracts of Purchase and Sale (§§ 3741 — 3961) › Chapter 289 - Rescission of Sale (§§ 3891 — 3925) › Subchapter I - Conventional Redemption (§§ 3901 — 3915) › § 3910 - Redemption by co-owner of undivided estate

Each of the co-owners of an undivided estate, who should have sold his share separately, may independently exercise the right of redemption for his respective share and the vendee cannot force him to redeem the entire estate.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1405.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IV - Contracts of Purchase and Sale (§§ 3741 — 3961) › Chapter 289 - Rescission of Sale (§§ 3891 — 3925) › Subchapter I - Conventional Redemption (§§ 3901 — 3915) › § 3911 - Redemption from heirs of vendee

Should the vendee leave several heirs, the action of redemption cannot be exercised against each of them, except for his respective share, whether it be undivided, or whether it has been distributed among them.
But if the inheritance has been divided, and the thing sold has been awarded to one of the heirs, the action of redemption may be brought against him for the whole.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1406.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IV - Contracts of Purchase and Sale (§§ 3741 — 3961) › Chapter 289 - Rescission of Sale (§§ 3891 — 3925) › Subchapter I - Conventional Redemption (§§ 3901 — 3915) › § 3912 - Sums payable by vendor in case of redemption; price set if known; bond

The vendor cannot exercise the right of redemption without returning to the vendee the price of the sale, in addition to:
(1) The expenses of the contract and any other legitimate payment made by reason of the sale.
(2) The useful and necessary expenses incurred in the thing sold.
In order that redemption suits may proceed, a price must be set if it is known, or if not, that a bond be put up to consign it when it is known.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1407; May 27, 1980, No. 71, p. 175, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IV - Contracts of Purchase and Sale (§§ 3741 — 3961) › Chapter 289 - Rescission of Sale (§§ 3891 — 3925) › Subchapter I - Conventional Redemption (§§ 3901 — 3915) › § 3913 - Disposition of fruits

If, on the execution of the sale, there should be on the estate visible or grown fruits, no indemnity or payment pro rata shall be made for those existing at the time of the redemption.
Should there have been no fruits at the time of the sale, and some exist at the time of the redemption, they shall be divided pro rata between the redeemer and the vendee, giving to the latter the share corresponding to the time he possessed the estate during the last year, counted from the date of the sale.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1408.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IV - Contracts of Purchase and Sale (§§ 3741 — 3961) › Chapter 289 - Rescission of Sale (§§ 3891 — 3925) › Subchapter I - Conventional Redemption (§§ 3901 — 3915) › § 3914 - Charges, mortgages, and lease contracts

The vendor, who should recover the thing sold, shall receive it free of all charges and mortgages imposed by the vendee, but he shall be obliged to respect the lease contracts executed by the latter in good faith and according to the customs of the place where it is located.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1409.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IV - Contracts of Purchase and Sale (§§ 3741 — 3961) › Chapter 289 - Rescission of Sale (§§ 3891 — 3925) › Subchapter I - Conventional Redemption (§§ 3901 — 3915) › § 3915 - When sale on reversion constitutes loan guaranteed by mortgage

In any of the following cases, sales of real estate on reversion shall be presumed to constitute a contract of loan for the amount of the price, with a mortgage on the property sold, as security:
First: When the buyer fails to enter into material possession of the thing sold.
Second: When the vendor pays to the buyer interest on the selling price, though such interest may be called rental or otherwise.
Third: When a grossly inadequate sum appears in the contract, as the price of alienation.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1410.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IV - Contracts of Purchase and Sale (§§ 3741 — 3961) › Chapter 289 - Rescission of Sale (§§ 3891 — 3925) › Subchapter II - Legal Redemption (§§ 3921 — 3925) › § 3921 - Legal redemption defined

Legal redemption is the right to be subrogated, with the same conditions stipulated in the contract, in the place of the person who acquires a thing by purchase or in payment of a debt.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1411.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IV - Contracts of Purchase and Sale (§§ 3741 — 3961) › Chapter 289 - Rescission of Sale (§§ 3891 — 3925) › Subchapter II - Legal Redemption (§§ 3921 — 3925) › § 3922 - Redemption by co-owner of thing held in common

A co-owner of a thing held in common may exercise the redemption in case the shares of all the other co-owners, or of any of them, are sold to a third party.
When two (2) or more co-owners wish to exercise the redemption, they shall only do so pro rata with regard to the share they have in the thing owned in common.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1412.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IV - Contracts of Purchase and Sale (§§ 3741 — 3961) › Chapter 289 - Rescission of Sale (§§ 3891 — 3925) › Subchapter II - Legal Redemption (§§ 3921 — 3925) › § 3923 - Owners of adjacent lands

The owners of the adjacent lands shall also have the right of redemption when the sale of a rural estate is involved the area of which does not exceed one hectare.
The right referred to in the preceding paragraph is not applicable to adjacent lands which are divided by brooks, drains, ravines, roads, and other apparent easements for the benefit of other estates.
If two (2) or more adjacent owners should make use of the redemption at the same time, the one who is owner of the adjacent land of lesser area shall be preferred; and, should both be equal in area, the person who first requested it.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1413.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IV - Contracts of Purchase and Sale (§§ 3741 — 3961) › Chapter 289 - Rescission of Sale (§§ 3891 — 3925) › Subchapter II - Legal Redemption (§§ 3921 — 3925) › § 3924 - Time for exercise of right; redemption of co-owners excludes adjacent owners

The right of legal redemption cannot be exercised except within nine (9) days, counted from the entry in the registry, and in the absence thereof from the time the redeemer may have had knowledge of the sale.
The redemption of co-owners excludes that of adjacent owners.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1414.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IV - Contracts of Purchase and Sale (§§ 3741 — 3961) › Chapter 289 - Rescission of Sale (§§ 3891 — 3925) › Subchapter II - Legal Redemption (§§ 3921 — 3925) › § 3925 - Application of other provisions; redemption sought by joint owners

In legal redemption the provisions of §§ 3905 and 3912 of this title shall be observed.
If the redemption is sought by joint owners, the redeemer shall also commit himself not to sell his share of ownership for four (4) years.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1415; May 27, 1980, No. 71, p. 175, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IV - Contracts of Purchase and Sale (§§ 3741 — 3961) › Chapter 291 - Transmission of Credits and Other Incorporeal Rights (§§ 3941 — 3951) › § 3941 - Effect of assignment of credits, etc., against third person

The assignment of a credit, right, or action shall produce no effect against a third person but from the time the date is considered fixed, in accordance with §§ 3273 and 3282 of this title.
If said assignment involves real property, from the date of its entry in the registry.
—Civil Code, 1930, § 1416.
History
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IV - Contracts of Purchase and Sale (§§ 3741 — 3961) › Chapter 291 - Transmission of Credits and Other Incorporeal Rights (§§ 3941 — 3951) › § 3942 - Payment by debtor before knowledge of assignment

A debtor who, before having knowledge of the assignment, should pay the creditor shall be released from the obligation.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1417.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IV - Contracts of Purchase and Sale (§§ 3741 — 3961) › Chapter 291 - Transmission of Credits and Other Incorporeal Rights (§§ 3941 — 3951) › § 3942a - Assignment not to prejudice rights

In the case of an assignment of a matter in dispute, the action by the assignee is without prejudice to any set-off or other right existing at the time of notice of the assignment, or before, but this is not applicable to the cession of a negotiable instrument transferred in good faith and for value received before maturity.
History —Civil Code, 1930, added as § 1417A on May 12, 1980, No. 39, p. 101, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IV - Contracts of Purchase and Sale (§§ 3741 — 3961) › Chapter 291 - Transmission of Credits and Other Incorporeal Rights (§§ 3941 — 3951) › § 3943 - Assignment of credit includes accessory rights

The sale or assignment of a credit includes that of all the accessory rights, such as the security, mortgage, pledge, or privilege.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1418.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IV - Contracts of Purchase and Sale (§§ 3741 — 3961) › Chapter 291 - Transmission of Credits and Other Incorporeal Rights (§§ 3941 — 3951) › § 3944 - Liability of vendor of credit

A vendor in good faith shall be liable for the existence and legitimacy of the credit at the time of the sale unless it should have been sold as doubtful, but he shall not be liable for the solvency of the debtor unless it has been expressly stipulated, or if the involvency should be prior and public.
Even in these cases he shall only be liable for the price received and for the expenses mentioned in subsection (1) of § 3912 of this title.
The vendor in bad faith shall always be liable for the payment of all the expenses, and for the losses and damages.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1419.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IV - Contracts of Purchase and Sale (§§ 3741 — 3961) › Chapter 291 - Transmission of Credits and Other Incorporeal Rights (§§ 3941 — 3951) › § 3945 - Liability of vendor of credit—Duration of liability for solvency of debtor

If the assignor in good faith should have made himself liable for the solvency of the debtor, and the contracting parties should not have stipulated anything with regard to the duration of the liability, it shall last one (1) year only, to be counted from the assignment of the credit if the period had already matured.
If the credit should be payable within a term or period which has not yet expired, the liability shall cease one (1) year after its maturity.
Should the credit consist of a perpetual income, the liability shall be extinguished after ten (10) years, counted from the date of the assignment.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1420.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IV - Contracts of Purchase and Sale (§§ 3741 — 3961) › Chapter 291 - Transmission of Credits and Other Incorporeal Rights (§§ 3941 — 3951) › § 3946 - Proof of heirship in sale of inheritance

A person who should sell an inheritance without enumerating the things of which it is composed shall only be obliged to prove that he is an heir.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1421.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IV - Contracts of Purchase and Sale (§§ 3741 — 3961) › Chapter 291 - Transmission of Credits and Other Incorporeal Rights (§§ 3941 — 3951) › § 3947 - Sale of rights, etc., as a whole

A person who sells for a total or lump sum certain rights, incomes, or products, as a whole, shall perform by answering for the legitimacy of the whole in general, but he shall not be obliged to warrant each of the parts of which it may be composed, unless in the case of eviction of the whole or of the greater part.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1422.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IV - Contracts of Purchase and Sale (§§ 3741 — 3961) › Chapter 291 - Transmission of Credits and Other Incorporeal Rights (§§ 3941 — 3951) › § 3948 - Payment for fruits by vendor

Should the vendor have profited by some of the fruits, or should he have received anything from the inheritance he should sell, he must pay the vendee therefor, should the contrary not have been agreed upon.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1423.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IV - Contracts of Purchase and Sale (§§ 3741 — 3961) › Chapter 291 - Transmission of Credits and Other Incorporeal Rights (§§ 3941 — 3951) › § 3949 - Vendee to reimburse vendor for debts and credits

The vendee must, on his part, pay to the vendor all that the latter may have paid for debts or charges on the estate and for the credits he may have against the same, unless there has been an agreement to the contrary.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1424.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IV - Contracts of Purchase and Sale (§§ 3741 — 3961) › Chapter 291 - Transmission of Credits and Other Incorporeal Rights (§§ 3941 — 3951) › § 3950 - Right of debtor to extinguish litigated credit

When a litigated credit is sold, the debtor shall have the right to extinguish the same by reimbursing the assignee for the price the later paid for it, the judicial costs incurred by him, and the interest on the price from the day on which the same was paid.
A credit shall be considered as litigated from the day the suit relating to the same has been answered.
The debtor may make use of his right within nine (9) days, counted from the day the assignee should demand payment of him.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1425.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IV - Contracts of Purchase and Sale (§§ 3741 — 3961) › Chapter 291 - Transmission of Credits and Other Incorporeal Rights (§§ 3941 — 3951) › § 3951 - Right of debtor to extinguish litigated credit—Exceptions

From the provisions of the foregoing section are excepted the assignments or sales made:
(1) To a coheir or co-owner of the right assigned.
(2) To a creditor in payment of his credit.
(3) To the possessor of an estate, subject to the right in litigation which has been assigned.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1426.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART IV - Contracts of Purchase and Sale (§§ 3741 — 3961) › Chapter 293 - General Provisions (§ 3961) › § 3961 - Application of mortgage law

All that is prescribed in this part is understood subject to the provisions of the Mortgage Law with regard to real property.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1427.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART V - Exchange (§§ 3981 — 3984) › Chapter 297 - Contracts of Exchange (§§ 3981 — 3984) › § 3981 - Exchange defined

Exchange is a contract by which each of the contracting parties binds himself to give a thing in order to receive another.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1428.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART V - Exchange (§§ 3981 — 3984) › Chapter 297 - Contracts of Exchange (§§ 3981 — 3984) › § 3982 - Right of party proving thing not property of person giving it

If one of the contracting parties should have received the thing promised to him in exchange, and should prove that it did not belong to the person who gave it, he cannot be forced to deliver the one he offered in exchange, and he shall perform by returning the one he received.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1429.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART V - Exchange (§§ 3981 — 3984) › Chapter 297 - Contracts of Exchange (§§ 3981 — 3984) › § 3983 - Loss by eviction of thing received in exchange

A person who loses by eviction the thing received in exchange may choose between recovering the one which he gave in exchange or demanding an indemnity for losses and damages; but he can only make use of the right to recover the thing which he delivered while said thing remains in the possession of the other party, and, without prejudice to the rights acquired thereto, in good faith in the meantime, by a third person.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1430.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART V - Exchange (§§ 3981 — 3984) › Chapter 297 - Contracts of Exchange (§§ 3981 — 3984) › § 3984 - Other provisions governing exchange

Exchange shall be governed by the provisions relating to sales in all that is not specially fixed in §§ 3981-3984 of this title.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1431.
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 301 - General Provisions (§§ 4011 — 4014) › § 4011 - Subjects of lease

A lease may be of things, works, or services.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1432.
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 301 - General Provisions (§§ 4011 — 4014) › § 4012 - Lease of things

In a lease of things, one of the parties thereto binds himself to give to the other the enjoyment or use of a thing for a specified time and a fixed price.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1433.
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 301 - General Provisions (§§ 4011 — 4014) › § 4013 - Lease of works or services

In a lease of works or services, one of the parties binds himself to execute a work or to render a service to the other for a specified price.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1434.
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 301 - General Provisions (§§ 4011 — 4014) › § 4014 - Perishable things not object of lease

Perishable things, which are consumed by use, cannot be the object of this contract.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1435.
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 I - General Provisions (§§ 4031 — 4038) › § 4031 - Lessor and lessee defined

A person who binds himself to grant the use of a thing, to execute a work, or to render a service is a lessor; and a person who acquires the use of the thing or a right to the work or service, for which he binds himself to pay, is a lessee.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1436.
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 I - General Provisions (§§ 4031 — 4038) › § 4032 - Lack of evidence of price agreed upon

When the performance of a contract of verbal lease has begun and the evidence of the price agreed upon is lacking, the lessee shall return to the lessor the thing leased, paying him the price which, for the time he has enjoyed such thing, may be adjusted.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1437.
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 I - General Provisions (§§ 4031 — 4038) › § 4033 - Duration of lease by father, guardian, or administrator

The father and guardian as regards the property of the minor son, and the administrator of property not having a special power, cannot give in lease the property for a period exceeding six (6) years.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1438.
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 I - General Provisions (§§ 4031 — 4038) › § 4034 - Unrecorded lease of real property not effective as to third persons

With regard to third persons, leases of real property, which are not duly recorded in the registry of property, shall be of no effect.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1439.
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 I - General Provisions (§§ 4031 — 4038) › § 4035 - Right of lessee to sublet

Should it not be expressly forbidden in the contract of lease of things, the lessee may sublet the whole or a part of the things leased without prejudice to his liability for the fulfillment of the contract executed with the lessor.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1440.
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 I - General Provisions (§§ 4031 — 4038) › § 4036 - Obligations of subtenant — Use and preservation

A subtenant, without prejudice to his obligation with regard to the sublessor, shall remain bound to the lessor for all the acts which refer to the use and preservation of the thing leased, in the manner agreed upon between the lessor and the lessee.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1441.
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 I - General Provisions (§§ 4031 — 4038) › § 4037 - Obligations of subtenant—Payment of price of sublease

The subtenant shall also be bound with regard to the lessor for the amount of the price agreed upon in the sublease, which is due at the time of the summons, considering the payments made in advance as not made, unless he has paid them according to custom.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1442.
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 I - General Provisions (§§ 4031 — 4038) › § 4038 - Warranty; reduction upon return of price

The provisions relating to warranty, contained in the part of purchase and sale, are applicable to lease contracts.
In the cases in which the return of the price is proper, a reduction in the price shall be made proportional to the time for which the lessee may have enjoyed the thing.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1443.
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 II - Rights and Obligations of Lessor and Lessee (§§ 4051 — 4071) › § 4051 - Obligations of lessor

The lessor is obliged:
(1) To deliver to the lessee the thing which is the object of the contract.
(2) To make theron, during the lease, all the necessary repairs in order to preserve it in condition to serve for the purpose to which it was destined.
(3) To maintain the lessee in the peaceful enjoyment of the lease during all the time of the contract.
(4) To sign and deliver to the lessee a receipt for each payment made by the latter.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1444; May 12, 1942, No. 220, p. 1176, eff. 90 days after May 12, 1942.
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 II - Rights and Obligations of Lessor and Lessee (§§ 4051 — 4071) › § 4052 - Obligations of lessee

The lessee is obliged:
(1) To pay the price of the lease in the manner agreed upon.
(2) To use the thing leased as a diligent father of a family would, applying the same to the use agreed upon; and, in the absence of an agreement, to the use which may be inferred from the nature of the thing leased according to the custom of the land.
(3) To pay the expenses arising from the instrument constituting the contract.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1445.
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 II - Rights and Obligations of Lessor and Lessee (§§ 4051 — 4071) › § 4053 - Rescission of contract; indemnity

If the lessor or lessee should not comply with the obligations mentioned in §§ 4051 and 4052 of this title, they may request the rescission of the contract and indemnity for losses and damages, or only the latter, leaving the contract in force.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1446.
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 II - Rights and Obligations of Lessor and Lessee (§§ 4051 — 4071) › § 4054 - Change of form of thing leased

The lessor cannot change the form of the thing leased.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1447.
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 II - Rights and Obligations of Lessor and Lessee (§§ 4051 — 4071) › § 4055 - Urgent repairs

If, during the lease, it is necessary to make any urgent repairs in the thing leased which cannot be postponed until the expiration thereof, the lessee shall be obliged to permit the work, even though it be very annoying to him, and even if during such repairs he may be deprived of a part of the estate.
If the repairs should last more than forty (40) days, the price of the lease shall be reduced in proportion to the time and to the part of the estate of which the lessee is deprived.
If the work should be of such nature that the part which the lessee and his family require for a dwelling becomes uninhabitable, he may rescind the contract.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1448.
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 II - Rights and Obligations of Lessor and Lessee (§§ 4051 — 4071) › § 4056 - Notice by lessee of usurpation, injurious alterations, and necessity for repairs

The lessee is obliged to give notice to the owner with the least possible delay of any usurpation or injurious alterations which any other person may have made or openly is preparing to make to the thing leased.
He is also obliged to give notice with the same urgency to the owner of the necessity of all the repairs included in subsection (2) of § 4051 of this title.
In either case the lessee shall be liable for the losses and damages which, by reason of his negligence, may be caused to the owner.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1449.
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 II - Rights and Obligations of Lessor and Lessee (§§ 4051 — 4071) › § 4057 - Trespass by third persons

The lessor shall not be obliged to answer for the mere fact of a trespass made by a third person in the use of the estate leased but the lessee shall have a direct action against the trespasser.
The fact of trespass does not exist if the third person, whether it be the administration or a private person, has acted by virtue of a right belonging to him.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1450.
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 II - Rights and Obligations of Lessor and Lessee (§§ 4051 — 4071) › § 4058 - Return of estate at expiration of lease

The lessee must return the estate at the expiration of the lease in the same condition in which he received it, except what may have been destroyed or impaired by time or by unavoidable reasons.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1451.
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 II - Rights and Obligations of Lessor and Lessee (§§ 4051 — 4071) › § 4059 - Presumption of condition at time of lease

If, at the time of the lease of the estate, the condition of the same was not mentioned, the law presumes that the lessee received it in good condition unless there be proof to the contrary.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1452.
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 II - Rights and Obligations of Lessor and Lessee (§§ 4051 — 4071) › § 4060 - Liability of lessee for deterioration or loss

The lessee is liable for the deterioration or loss suffered by the thing leased, unless he proves that it took place without his fault.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1453.
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 II - Rights and Obligations of Lessor and Lessee (§§ 4051 — 4071) › § 4061 - Impairment caused by members of lessee’s household

A lessee is liable for the impairment caused by the members of his household.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1454.
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 II - Rights and Obligations of Lessor and Lessee (§§ 4051 — 4071) › § 4062 - Expiration of lease made for specified time

If the lease has been made for a specified time, it expires on the day previously fixed, without the necessity of any notice.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1455.
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 II - Rights and Obligations of Lessor and Lessee (§§ 4051 — 4071) › § 4063 - When new lease implied

If, on the expiration of the contract, the lessee continues enjoying the thing leased for fifteen (15) days with the acquiescence of the lessor, it shall be understood that there is an implied new lease for the time mentioned in sections 4083 and 4092 of this title unless a notice has previously been given.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1456.
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 II - Rights and Obligations of Lessor and Lessee (§§ 4051 — 4071) › § 4064 - Obligations contracted by third persons in case of implied renewal

In the case of an implied renewal the obligations contracted by a third person for the security of the principal contract shall cease with regard thereto.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1457.
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 II - Rights and Obligations of Lessor and Lessee (§§ 4051 — 4071) › § 4065 - Loss of thing leased; noncompliance with stipulations

If the thing leased is lost or any of the contracting parties do not comply with what has been stipulated, the provisions of §§ 3191, 3192, 3018, and 3052 of this title shall be respectively observed.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1458.
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 II - Rights and Obligations of Lessor and Lessee (§§ 4051 — 4071) › § 4066 - Causes for dispossession of lessee by lessor

The lessor may judicially dispossess the lessee for any of the following causes:
(1) Upon the expiration of the conventional period or the one fixed for the duration of leases in §§ 4083 and 4092 of this title.
(2) Default in payment of the price agreed upon.
(3) Infraction of any of the conditions stipulated in the contract.
(4) When the lessee employs the thing leased in uses or services not stipulated and which cause the same to be impaired, or when he does not comply, with regard to its use, with the provisions of subsection (2) of § 4052 of this title.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1459.
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 II - Rights and Obligations of Lessor and Lessee (§§ 4051 — 4071) › § 4067 - Periods to which lessee entitled

With the exception of the cases mentioned in the preceding section, the lessee shall have the right to make use of the periods fixed in §§ 4083 and 4092 of this title.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1460.
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 II - Rights and Obligations of Lessor and Lessee (§§ 4051 — 4071) › § 4068 - Termination of lease by purchaser

The purchaser of a leased estate has a right to terminate the lease in force at the time of making the sale, unless the contrary is stipulated, and the provisions of the Mortgage Law, Title 30, prevent.
If the purchaser should make use of this right, the lessee may demand that he be permitted to gather the fruits of the crop corresponding to the current agricultural year and that he be indemnified by the vendor for the losses and damages he may have suffered.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1461.
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 II - Rights and Obligations of Lessor and Lessee (§§ 4051 — 4071) › § 4069 - Rights and obligations of lessor and lessee—Purchase with agreement of redemption

A purchaser with an agreement of redemption cannot use the right of dispossessing the lessee until the term for the use of the right of redemption has expired.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1462.
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 II - Rights and Obligations of Lessor and Lessee (§§ 4051 — 4071) › § 4070 - Rights of lessee as to useful and voluntary improvements

A lessee shall have, with regard to the useful and voluntary improvements, the same rights which are granted a usufructuary.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1463.
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 II - Rights and Obligations of Lessor and Lessee (§§ 4051 — 4071) › § 4071 - Place and time of payment of rent

Should there be no stipulation with regard to the place and time of the payment of rent, the provisions of § 3175 of this title shall govern as to place, and the customs of the land as to time.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1464.
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 III - Special Provisions for Leases of Rural Property (§§ 4081 — 4085) › § 4081 - Reduction of rent—Sterility of land; loss of fruits through fortuitous events

A lessee shall not have the right to a reduction of the rent on account of the sterility of the land leased or on account of the loss of the fruits through ordinary fortuitous events, but he shall have said right in case of loss of more than half of the fruits through extraordinary and unforeseen fortuitous events unless there is a special agreement to the contrary.
By extraordinary fortuitous events shall be understood fire, war, pestilence, extraordinary inundations, locusts, earthquakes, or any other equally unfrequent events, and which the contracting parties could not have reasonably foreseen.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1465.
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 III - Special Provisions for Leases of Rural Property (§§ 4081 — 4085) › § 4082 - Reduction of rent—Loss of fruits after separation from roots or trunks

Neither shall a lessee have a right to a reduction of the rent, when the fruits have been lost, after having been separated from their roots or trunks.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1466.
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 III - Special Provisions for Leases of Rural Property (§§ 4081 — 4085) › § 4083 - Term of lease of rural estate when duration not fixed; arable lands

The lease of a rural estate, when its duration is not fixed, shall be understood as executed for the full time required for the gathering of the fruits which the whole estate leased might produce in one (1) year, or all it could produce at one time, even though two (2) or more years may be necessary to obtain them.
That of arable lands, divided into two (2) or more crops, shall be considered as executed for as many years as there are crops.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1467.
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 III - Special Provisions for Leases of Rural Property (§§ 4081 — 4085) › § 4084 - Rights of incoming and outgoing lessees

The outgoing lessee must permit the incoming one the use of the place and of all other necessary means for the preparatory labor for the following year, and, mutually, the latter is obliged to permit the outgoing one all that may be necessary for the gathering and enjoyment of the fruits, all in accordance with the customs of the place.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1468.
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 III - Special Provisions for Leases of Rural Property (§§ 4081 — 4085) › § 4085 - Leases for partnerships of arable land, breeding cattle, etc

Leases for partnerships of arable lands, breeding cattle, and for industrial or manufacturing establishments shall be governed by the provisions relating to articles of copartnership and by the agreements of the contracting parties, and, in their absence, by the customs of the country.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1469.