Translation of the Mortgage Law for Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. (1893.) (Volume 1893)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899. Excerpt: ... MORTGAGE LAW FOR THE COLONIES. Title I. INSTRUMENTS REQUIRING RECORD. Article 1. Registries of real estate shall be located in all towns where they have been established by law. Registries can not be abolished nor created, nor can the present territorial limits of any one of them be changed, without provision of law. In every Registry shall be recorded the instruments relative to the estates situated within their territorial limits. If au estate is situated within the limits of two or more Registries, it shall be recorded in all of them. Art. 2. In the Registries mentioned in the preceding article shall be recorded: 1. Instruments transferring or declaring ownership of realty, or of property rights thereto. 2. Instruments by which rights of use, use aud occupancy, emphyteusis, mortgage, annuity (censo), servitudes, and any others by which estates are created, acknowledged, modified, or extinguished. 3. Instruments or contracts by virtue of which real property or property rights are conveyed to a person, although it is with the obligation of transferring them to others or of investing their value for specified purposes. 4. Writs declaring the legal incapacity for administration, or the presumption of death of absentees, or injunction, or in anyway altering the civil capacity of persons with regard to the free disposition of their property. 5. Contracts for the lease of real property for a period exceeding six years, or such contracts on which rent has been paid in advance for three or more years, or, if having neither of these conditions, they contain a special covenant by which record thereof is required. 6. Title deeds of real property or property rights owned or administered by the State, or by civil or ecclesiastical corporations, subject to the provis...