La Comunidad Religiosa Católica de Reverendas Madres Carmelitas Calzadas, Inc. v. Registrar of Property of San Juan
La Comunidad Religiosa Católica de Reverendas Madres Carmelitas Calzadas, Inc. v. Registrar of Property of San Juan
Opinion of the Court
delivered tlie opinion of the Court.
In the first recording of a house on Cristo St., No. 12, the dominion title was entered in the name of Lorenza Yaldés Goicoechea and it was expressly stated that said house was subject to two principals for annuities of 5 per cent a year, one of them for 239 Spanish dollars in favor of the petitioning community.
The petitioner alleges that all the successors to the title of the house, as heirs of Lorenza Yaldés, acquired subject to the lien of said annuity, this lien being mentioned in all the subsequent recordings; and that the house has never passed to a third party in due course.
On July 18, 1939, the petitioner filed a request before the respondent Registrar asking that he make a record of the
On the 1st of August 1939 the Registrar returned the request of the petitioner, with the following ruling:
“The document is returned, no operation whatsoever having been made, because the deed which creates the annuity of which record is requested, was not presented, and this request is not a recordable document. ’ ’
Against this ruling this administrative appeal was taken. To sustain this appeal the petitioner alleges that the Registrar should have recorded the annuity:
“1. Because an acknowledgment of the annuity was made by the owner of the property so that the title should be recorded with this lien.
“2. Because there are no third parties in due course involved.
“3. Because all the owners of the farm have paid the rentals of the annuity thereby accepting the existance of the lien.
“4. Because the petitioner has no other document referring to the execution of the lien other than the judgment declaring the dominion title.”
In bis answer the respondent alleges that this is not a case wherein the interpretation of a document is involved, or the refusal to make a record due to an incurable defect,, or wherein the record is made and a curable defect is-noted, which are the only cases wherein according to the law. as to administrative appeals from the rulings of the Regis--
In Mollfulleda v. Registrar, 19 P.R.R. 950, this Court decided in applying Sec. 66 of the Mortgage Law and Secs. Ill and 112 of the Regulations that an administrative appeal from a decision of a Registrar lies only against the refusal of the Registrar to record, to take cautionary notice, or to cancel titles which may be presented at the Registry, but not against other rulings of the Registrar which may affect the rights of the parties and against which the parties may invoke other legal remedies. See Galindo, vol. 2 p. 633.
The document presented by the petitioner is not a title. It is a simple request, ex parte, whereby it is pretended, without hearing the owners of the property on ■which the annuity is said to constitute a lien, to make a definite record of a simple mention made 32 years before the said petition was filed.
Notwithstanding the fact that the appeal filed is improper, we wish to say that the Registrar can not, and should not, make a definite record of a simple mention merely on a petition ex parte of the petitioner and without the knowledge or consent of the payee of the annuity, especially as due to the time elapsed between the execution of the annuity and the petition said annuity may at the present have no legal effect. If the petitioner has the right to have the record made, as it requests, the procedure it must follow is to
For the foregoing reasons the ruling appealed from must be affirmed.
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