GLOSSARIES

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QUOTE / EXAMPLE

A juicio de este proveyente

In this Court’s opinion

Abogado supernumerario

Outside counsel

Acción reivindicatoria

Vindicatory Action /action for recovery of property/

Aclaración y ampliación

Clarification and supplementation

Acogido por la sentencia

Upheld by judgment

Expediente; Ficha

Docket

Actor incidental

Party that brought the motion / Movant

Actos de posesión

Possessory acts

Actos de riguroso dominio

Dominion actions

Acumular autos

Consolidate proceedings

Adjudicación judicial

Judicial award

Adquirente por usucapión

Owner by adverse possession

Agraviándose en síntesis

Essentially arguing

Agregación del expediente

Incorporation of docket

Al ejecutarse el crédito hipotecario

Upon foreclosure of the mortgage / Upon foreclosure on the mortgaged property / Upon enforcement of the mortgage-secured claim

Amerita

Justify / Call  for / Give rise to

La conducta procesal de las partes no amerita sanción procesal especial.

The procedural conduct of the parties does not justify the imposition of any special procedural sanctions.

Antecedentes judiciales

Prior Lawsuits

Apelación con efecto no suspensivo

Challenge with non-suspensive effect

Archivar (el expediente)

Close and archive

Arrendamiento simulado

Simulated lease agreement

Arriendo benévolo

Gratuitous lease

Arrogar la calidad de poseedor

Claim to be a possessor

Asumir el préstamo

Pay the loan

Atrasarse en el pago

Fail to pay

Auto liminar

Preliminary judgment

Autoatribuído

Self-assigned

La calidad de poseedora es autoatribuída por XXX.

XXX’s status as possessor has been self-assigned.

Bases de prestaciones y contribuciones

Bases of benefits and contributions

Cancelación registral

De-registration

Caso de autos

Present case / Case at hand

Caso de marras

Case at hand

Cédula citatoria para declarar como testigo

Summons to testify as witness

Certificado de resultancias de autos

Court final summary certificate of succession

Citar

Cite

Citas

Quotes

Cláusula de constituto posesorio

Constitutum possessorium clause

Cobrar el préstamo

Recover the loan

Con costas de precepto

Court costs are mandatorily asserted against the unsuccessful litigant

Condena en costos y costas

Order for court costs and attorney’s fees

Conferido el traslado de estilo

Upon the customary service of process

Consultar

Check

Consultar el registro.

Check the register.

Contrato de mutuo

Loan agreement

Copia simple

Uncertified copy

Costas

Court costs

Costas y costos por el orden causado

Court costs and attorney’s fees shall be borne by each party as incurred

Costos

Attorney’s fees

Crédito hipotecario

Mortgage-secured claim / Mortgage loan

Cuasi posesión

Quasi-possession

Cuota parte del préstamo hipotecario

Share of the mortgage loan

Debió acogerse la prescripción extintiva opuesta respecto
del saldo de precio

Expiration of the obligation to pay the price balance according to the statute of limitations should have been upheld

Decisión anticipada

Early judgment

Declaración asertiva

Declaratory statement

Declaración de herederos

Declaration of heirs

Declaraciones testimoniales

Witness’ statements

Declarar inadmisible

Dismiss as inadmissible

Deducir incidenter tantum la prescripción adquisitiva

Raise incidenter tantum an adverse possession claim

Demanda incidental

Motion

Demanda incidental de nulidad

Nullity motion (proceedings)

Departamento de Gestión de Garantías e Inmuebles

Guarantees and Real Estate Management Department

Derecho de ocupación

Right of occupancy

Derecho real menor

Minor right in rem

Desde el momento en que dicha sociedad fue ejecutada

From the moment foreclosure proceedings were brought against the company

Desestimar la incidencia promovida

To dismiss the action filed

Desvirtuado

Undermined

Sus fundamentos no resultan desvirtuados por los argumentos esgrimidos en la recurrencia.

Its grounds are not undermined by the arguments raised in the challenge.

Dicho derecho personal es de carácter relativo

Such right in personam is of a relative nature

Efectiva posesión

Factual possession

Efecto obligacional

Personal nature

Si la promesa de enajenación cumple un efecto traslativo u obligacional.

Whether a promise to enter into a purchase and sale agreement produces a conveyance effect or has only personal nature.

Efecto traslativo

Conveyance effect

Si la promesa de enajenación cumple un efecto traslativo u obligacional.

Whether a promise to enter into a purchase and sale agreement produces a conveyance effect or has only personal nature.

Efectuar una intimación

Serve summons

Deudor

Debtor

Ejecutar la garantía hipotecaria

Foreclose the mortgage security

Ejecutar la hipoteca

Foreclose the mortgage

Ejercicio liso y llano

Plain and simple exercise

El demandado dedujo oposición a la pretensión

The defendant entered an appearance filing objections to the claim

El precio de la compraventa prometida queda fijado en la
suma de …

The consideration that Prospective Buyer agrees to pay to Prospective Seller for the transfer of property shall be …

En el expediente radicado en este Juzgado

With regard to the proceedings filed with this Court

Escrito de interposición de excepciones

Writ of exceptions

Escrituración de la unidad

Execution of a purchase and sale deed corresponding to the unit

Escrituración judicial de la compraventa

Judicial execution of the purchase and sale deed

Esgrimir defensas

Assert defenses

Expediente acordonado

Docket attached hereto

Falta presupuesto habilitante para la entrega

Absence of requirements enabling delivery

Fondo del reclamo

Merits of the claim

Franquear la alzada

Refer the matter to the appellate court

Gravamen hipotecario

Mortgage lien

Ha obtenido la declaración de prescripción del saldo de precio de la promesa

The price owed under the promise to enter into a purchase and sale agreement was barred by the statute of limitations

Hacer lugar a la excepción de cosa juzgada

The res judicata exception is upheld

Hacerse de la titularidad del inmueble por una vía oblicua

Acquire title to the property by indirect means

Hipoteca recíproca

Mutual statutory lien securing payment of common expenses

Honorarios por el patrocinio letrado

Attorney’s fees for legal representation

Inadecuado

Unsuitable / Inappropriate

El proceso de entrega de la cosa era inadecuado.

The proceedings for delivery of property were unsuitable.

Incidente

Motion

Incoar una pretensión

Bring a claim

Incorporarse al proceso

Join the proceedings

Indefensión

Be deprived of the opportunity to defend his/her rights

Dejándola desamparada de las garantías previstas en … y por ello en total indefensión.

Depriving her of the guarantees established by … and hence, of the opportunity to defend her rights.

Información registral

Registry information

Informe actuarial

Court clerk’s report

Inmediatez o señoría directo sobre el objeto corporal

Direct and immediate control over a corporeal property

Inscribir registralmente

File with the register

Inscripciones registrales

Registry entries

Insinceridad

Lack of genuineness

Insinceridad del arrendamiento.

Lack of genuineness of the lease.

Interponer excepción de cosa juzgada

File an objection based on res judicata

Interrumpir la prescripción

Suspend the running of the statute of limitations

Intimado

Summoned party

Justo título

Clear title / Good title

Juzgar el caso

Consider the case

Letrado patrocinante

Attorney

Litispendencia

Lis pendens

Máximas de la experiencia

Rules of common experience

Me tenga por presentado en la representación invocada, por ofrecida la prueba, agregada la documental, por denunciado domicilio real y constituido procesal y electrónico

Let the plaintiff be deemed to have appeared before this Court acting in the abovementioned capacity, the evidence be deemed offered, the documentary evidenced be deemed incorporated, the domicile be deemed indicated and the domicile for service of process and the electronic domicile be deemed established

Medianera

Dividing walls

Mera tenencia y posesión

Mere occupancy and possession

Mero tenedor

Mere occupant

Ministro firmante

Signatory Judge

Ministro redactor

Drafting Judge

Mutuario

Borrower

Nace a la vida jurídica

Legally exist

Nada de ello se halla presente en la especie

None of the foregoing circumstances are present in the case at hand

No asiste razón al justiciable

Claimant’s argument is unfounded

No dar cumplimiento a la intimación

Fail to appear as summoned

Notificar el traslado de la demanda

Notify the complaint

ob. Cit.

op. Cit.

Objeto de esta Litis

Subject-matter of this litigation

Objeto del proceso

Subject matter of the proceedings

Ocupante precario

Merely an occupant / Temporary occupant

Oficina Actuaria

Court Clerk’s Office

Oficina Central de Notificaciones y Alguacilatos

Service of Process Division and Court Sheriffs

Oponer defensas

Submit defenses

Parte perdedora

Unsuccessful litigant

Partes en el juicio

Parties to the action

Perdidosa

Unsuccessful litigant

Plano de fraccionamiento

Subdivision plan

Plano de mensura

Plat map

Plazo de posesión con vocación prescriptiva

Period of possession aimed at acquiring ownership by adverse possession

Poner de relieve

Emphasize

Por imperio legal

By force of law

Por indefensión

On grounds of lack of defense

Por informes

By way of reports

Poseedor

Possessor

Poseedor con ánimo de dueño

Possessor with intent to own

Poseedor con ánimo de prescribir

Possessor applying for adverse possession

Posesión de hecho

Factual possession

Posesión precaria

Temporary possession

Posesión promiscua

Mixed possession

Potencialidad prescriptiva

Capable of meeting the requirements for adverse possession

Prescripto extintivamente

Extinguished pursuant to the statute of limitations

Presentar y denunciar domicilio

Indicate and establish domicile

Pretenda una conducta en sentido contrario

Act inconsistently with that position/conduct, Assert the opposite

Pretender

Seek

Ello es determinante en el análisis de la usucapión que pretende en otro proceso.

This aspect is determinant to the analysis of the adverse possession sought in other proceedings.

Pretender perpetuarse en un bien

Seek to perpetuate possession in a property

Proceso de ejecución / vía de apremio

Enforcement proceedings

Proceso monitorio

Monitory proceedings /a summary-type structure/

Proceso/juicio ejecutivo

Executory proceedings /summary proceedings on an executive title/

Profesional del derecho

Legal practitioner

Promesa de enajenación de inmuebles а plazos

Promise to enter into a purchase and sale agreement regarding real property and payable in installments

Promover intimación

Apply for an order to summon

Promoviendo proceso de entrega de la cosa

Moving for delivery of property against

Pronunciamiento de la sentencia

Issuance of the judgment

Proyecto de fraccionamiento

Subdivision project

Prueba trasladada

Evidence to be incorporated from other proceedings

Realización de una citación

Service of summons

Recuperar la ocupación del bien

Recover possession of the property

Recurrir

Challenge

Recurrida

Challenged decision

Recurso

Appeal / Remedy

Recurso de apelación

Ordinary appeal

Recurso de casación

Cassation appeal

Reglamento de Copropiedad

Condominium Property Regulations and Bylaws

Reivindicación del inmueble

Recovery of the property

Relación arrendaticia

Landlord–tenant relationship

Relación jurada de bienes

List of declared properties

Remate frustrado

Unsuccessful auction

Resoluble

Subject to annulment

El derecho de XXX en el bien se encontraba supeditado al cumplimiento de la obligación de pago de la deuda garantizada por hipoteca у, por tanto, era resoluble.

XXX’s right to the property was subject to compliance with the debt payment obligation secured by the mortgage, and was therefore subject to annulment.

Resulta ajustado a Derecho

Is in compliance with the Law / Is suitable pursuant to the Law

Resultancias probatorias

Evidentiary findings

Retomar el proceso

Resume proceedings / Initiate the proceedings again

Revocar in totum

Fully set aside

Se  dispuso la intimación de la entrega de la cosa

A judicial summons for delivery of property was issued

Se dé traslado a la contraria por el término legal

Let these presents be served to the defendant in order to file a response within the corresponding legal term

Se oficie a …

An order should be issued requiring an official court communication to be sent to …

Se resuelve

The Court orders that: / It is hereby ordered that: / Accordingly, the Court hereby orders: / For the foregoing reasons, the Court orders as follows: / Judgment is entered as follows: / For the foregoing reasons, the Court orders as follows:

Se solicitará la intimación a efectos de la agregación de los siguientes medios en poder del demandado

An order should be issued requiring the defendant to produce the following evidence in his possession

Sección Alguaciles

Court Sheriff Division

Secretaria Letrada

Law Clerk

Sentencia dictada

Issued judgment

Sentencias contradictorias

Conflicting judgments

Solicitar prescripción extintiva del saldo de precio

Request the price balance to become statute-barred

Solicitar que se proceda a la notificación e intimación al demandado a comparecer

Request that the defendant be served with a notice and be summoned to appear

Sometido a litigio

Subject to litigation

Suma

Nature of the action

Suma: acción reivindicatoria.

Nature of the action: Vindicatory Action.

Suspender las actuaciones

Stay proceedings

Sustanciado, no fue evacuado el traslado respectivo

After the matter was duly prosecuted, no response was submitted

Tenencia detentada

Possession exercised

Testigos sospechosos

Unreliable witnesses

Titular del bien

Owner of the property

Título hábil para adquirir el dominio

Valid title for acquiring dominion

Título injusto

Defective title

Título traslativo

Title capable of transferring ownership

Usucapión

Adverse possession

Valor probatorio

Evidentiary value

Vicio en la forma, tiempo o en el lugar

Defect as to form, time or place

Vinculación al bien

Bond to the property

Yuxtaposición de posesiones

Tacking of possession