P.R. Laws tit. 31, § 23
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The expression “Puerto Rico” shall be held to comprehend, for all civil purposes, the island of that name and the adjacent islands situated to the east of the seventy-fourth meridian of longitude west of Greenwich and which were ceded to the United States by the Government of Spain by virtue of the treaty made on the tenth day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and ratified on the eleventh day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 23.