P.R. Laws tit. 31, § 3839
A defendant vendee shall request within the period fixed in the Law of Civil Procedure for answering the suit that notice thereof be given to the vendor or vendors within the shortest period possible.
This notification shall be made in the manner established in said law for the summoning of defendants.
The time to answer granted to the vendee shall be suspended until the expiration of that granted the vendor or vendors to appear and answer the complaint, and which periods shall be the same as those granted all defendants by the aforesaid Law of Civil Procedure, counted from the notification prescribed in the first paragraph of this section.
Should the persons summoned for eviction not appear in the proper time and manner, the period in which to answer the suit shall continue with regard to the vendee.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1371.