Pietri v. Registrar of San Germán
Pietri v. Registrar of San Germán
Opinion of the Court
delivered tbe opinion of tbe court.
Tbe note of tbe registrar m this case was substantially as follows:
*679 “A project of partition accompanied by other papers being presented, the record of such partition is refused because of the defects of not describing in the deed the urban lots of one of which the record is sought, an affidavit not being the legal way of adding to a public document; of not having carried out the wishes of the testator that the partition proceedings should take place extrajudicially with the intervention of the heirs residing in France for themselves or by an attorney in fact, and the minors by their parents having the fatherly power or by a guardian in case conflicting interests arise.”
In this case it appears that the commissioners (contadores? partidores) named by the testator refused to accept their office and another commissioner was named by the court. The registrar explains with regard to the second defect of' his note that he was not alluding to the failure of the testamentary commissioners to perform their office, nor to the-naming of a commissioner by the court, nor yet to the fact: that judicial recourse must be had when some of the heirs; are minors, but he insists that the partition deed should allow the actual intervention of the heirs in France. 'The appellants point out that in the case before us not only was a judicial commissioner named and the rights of the minors, protected by a judicial proceeding, but that there exists a judgment of the court approving the partition; that as there was; a judicial proceeding of partition and a judgment approving-the same, a presumption would arise, both of the regularity of the proceedings and that the law had been followed' and hence that all the heirs had been heard or giveni an opportunity to be .heard. The judgment in question recites in effect that upon the petition of the heirs, José Pietri. y Pietri and Felipe Pietri y Pietri, the court named a commissioner; that the commissioner had made his report and presented a project of inventory, appraisal, liquidation and division; that the said heirs prayed that the said report be approved; that from the proofs it appeared that there was a just division among the heirs, the wishes of the testator and the rights of all the interested parties respected, and
As against the first defect named by the registrar, namely, the lack of description of one of the pieces of property, the appellants maintain that the registrar-had under his consideration and within the same partition deed some elements to identify the lot and that in the affidavit accompanying the deed the description is complete. We have decided in the cases of Delgado v. The Registrar of Caguas, 22 P. R. R., 117, and Hernández v. Rosado et al., 22 P. R. R., 360, that an affidavit is not a public document of the kind required by the mortgage law. Hence, the case of Méndez v. Registrar of Caguas, 18 P. R. R., 781, is no,t applicable. That case
The note must be
Affirmed.
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