The Spanish Civil Code in Force in Spain, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines (Classic Reprint)

Article 1. Laws shall be binding in the Peninsula, the adjacent I slands, the Canaries, and African territory, subject to Peninsular legislation, twenty days after their promulgation, if it is not otherwise provided in them. The promulgation is understood to be made upon the day of the termination of the insertion of the law in the (O fficial) Gazette. 2. Ignorance of the law does not excuse from compliance with the same. 3. Laws shall not have a retroactive effect, unless the contrary is provided in them. 4. A cts executed against provisions of law are null, except in the cases in which the same law orders their validity. Rights conceded by the laws may be renounced, provided they are not contrary to public interest or order or prejudicial to a third person. 5. Laws are abrogated only by other subsequent laws, and the disuse or any custom or practice to the contrary shall not prevail against their observance. 6. A ny tribunal which refuses to give sentence on the pretext of silence, obscurity, or insufficiency of the laws shall incur responsibility therefor.
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