P.R. Laws tit. 32, § 2332
The court shall see that the property, papers, and other effects of the decedent susceptible of abstraction or concealment be deposited in a secure place and sealed, intrusting them to a responsible person under sufficient security, as temporary custodian thereof, and under inventory with power in respect to credits, properties, rents and products to collect, keep and maintain the same. The Court of First Instance shall, thereupon, appoint an administrator whose duty shall be, in addition to other duties imposed by law upon administrators, to begin proceedings for the purpose of ascertaining who are the heirs of the decedent according to §§ 2301 and 2302 of this title, and if they fail to appear, to turn over the balance of the estate remaining after the payment of the debts of the decedent and the expenses of the administration, to the Secretary of the Treasury of Puerto Rico. The Secretary of Justice shall be notified by the prosecuting attorney and shall be a party to all proceedings for the determination of heirs.
History —Code Civil Proc., 1933, § 555.