Succession of García v. Registrar of Property
Succession of García v. Registrar of Property
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
The marshal of the District Court of San Juan intending to execute and sell at public auction the property belonging
It is not contended here that the debt sought to be recovered is one of those for which the wife can bind the conjugal partnership by virtue of section 1323 of the Civil Code, but it is directly maintained that the wife has an actual one-half interest .in the community property and that this interest is subject to execution or attachment for a debt of the wife, even if such debt arose, as it did in this case, by reason of a judgment against a succession of which she was a constituent member.
Section 1328 of the Civil Code provides that the express consent of the wife is necessary for the husband to be able to give, sell or bind, for a consideration, the real estate of the conjugal partnership. In the case of Vivaldi Pacheco v. Domingo Mariani et ux., this court, on April 16, 1906, 3 Castro, 215, decided that this provision did not prevent the creditor of the husband from executing against the community property. It was there held that to decide otherwise would be to destroy the power of the husband as administrator of the partnership. A similar view of the same section was taken by the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Garrozi v. Dastas, 204 U. S., 79. The upshot of these decisions is that section 1328 of the Civil Code does not change the essential character of the community, but was principally designed to protect the wife from the acts of the husband in trase. A creditor of the wife gains no greater rights thereby. Under these circumstances no attachable .or executionable interest arises in the wife until a dissolution
The note of the registrar must be affirmed.
Affirmed.
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