P.R. Laws tit. 5, § 160
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Any farmer who shall exchange, sell, or wilfully injure, to the detriment of his creditor, the articles pledged to him and of which he has been acting as keeper, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
The farmer who shall appraise the goods at a price higher than the market price on the date that he signed the said certificate shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. And the farmer who shall not deliver the goods of which he agreed to be the keeper, when he is required to so deliver them by the Court of First Instance, shall be punished for contempt, according to the provisions of the Penal Code, Title 33.
History —Mar. 10, 1904, p. 141, § 10.