P.R. Laws tit. 10, § 402
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Except as provided in § 426 of this title, where a warehouseman delivers part of the goods for which he had issued a negotiable receipt and fails either to take up and cancel such receipt, or to place plainly upon it a statement of what goods or packages have been delivered he shall be liable, to any one who purchases for value in good faith such receipt, for failure to deliver all the goods specified in the receipt, whether such purchaser acquired title to the receipt before or after the delivery of any portion of any of the goods by the warehouseman.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 12.