P.R. Laws tit. 31, § 5006
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A promise to constitute a pledge or mortgage gives rise only to a personal action among the contracting parties, without prejudice to the criminal liability which a person incurs who defrauds another, offering in pledge or mortgage as unincumbered things which he knew were incumbered, or pretending to be the owner of things which do not belong to him.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1761.