Chapter 1. The Laws, Their Effects, and the General Rules for Their Application
- § 1. Title
- § 2. Ignorance of law
- § 3. Retroactive effect
- § 4. Acts contrary to law; renunciation of legal right
- § 5. Repeal of laws
- § 6. Express or implied repeal; repeal of repealing act
- § 7. Refusal of court to render decision; application of equity in absence of statute
- § 8. Months, days, and nights defined
- § 9. Law governing—Family rights and status of persons
- § 10. Law governing—Personal and real property
- § 11. Law Governing—Contracts, wills, and other public instruments
- § 12. Deficiencies in special laws
- § 13. Discrepancy between spanish and english texts
- § 14. Letter of law observed if free from ambiguity
- § 15. General and popular use of words
- § 16. Technical terms and phrases
- § 17. Dubious words
- § 18. Laws referring to same matter
- § 19. Reason, spirit, and motives of law
- § 20. Laws declaring acts void
- § 21. Distinction of laws as odious or favorable
- § 22. Civil laws applied without distinction
- § 23. Puerto Rico defined