Balzac Faria v. Registrar of Property of Mayagüez
Balzac Faria v. Registrar of Property of Mayagüez
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
A parcel which is subject until 1940 to a lease in favor of the Mayagüez Sugar Co., Inc., was mortgaged by Mariano Lugo and his wife to secure the payment to Galo Balzac Faria of $2,170, payable in seven annual instalments for which the debtors signed notes to the order of the creditor.
The mortgage deed contains the following clause:
“Fifth: — The appearing party Mr. Nadal y Lugo, with the express eonsent of his wife, Laura Suris Marini, hereby assigns to Mr. Balzac y Faria or any of the assignees' or endorsees of the seven notes, his right to collect, at the offices of the corporation Mayagüez Sugar Co., the rentals provided in said lease contract, for the purpose of paying the said mortgage notes, which rentals must be paid on the same dates on which the instalments stipulated in the first clause of this contract mature, and toward that end, they hereby authorize the attesting notary to notify the manager of said corporation of the assignment of the rentals herein provided, it being understood that the rentals corresponding to the period prior to July 4, 1935, are not herein assigned because the same had already been disposed of by Mr. Nadal y Lugo, one having been paid to him in advance and the other assigned to Irene Bagés de Sabater.”
The appellant requests that we order the registrar to correct the record of the mortgage.
What has been said shows that this is not a proper case for an administrative appeal, because under Act No. 1 of March 1902 (Comp. Stat. 1911, section 2180) an administrative appeal lies only where the registrar has denied or sus
Section 256 of the Mortgage Law provides that errors in construction committed in records, cautionary notices, or cancellations, or in other records relating thereto, when they do not clearly appear from the same, shall not be corrected without the unanimous consent of all the interested parties and of the registrar, or without a judicial order to that effect. According to the decision of March 6, 1883, of the Directorate of Registries of Spain an administrative appeal does not lie from the refusal of the registrar to correct an entry. A plenary action is the proper remedy.
For the reasons stated, the appeal must be dismissed.
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