State Act
Section 238
Art. 238 – The redemption of the foro of the emphyteusis of the comunidades or of any periodical payments that the comunidades receive from the proprietors, servants or other individuals under the article 6, shall be applied to the clerk of the comunidade, requesting that the amount may be calculated and received, mentioning in the petition the nature and the burden thereof of which redemption is asked for. § 1 The clerk, within the period of eight days and under his responsibility, shall calculate the amount of redemption. This shall be recorded on the reverse of the application, adding to the sum, the outstanding annuities due to the comunidade. § 2 The amount payable for the redemption is the sum of twenty annuities of the foro or burden whose redemption is intended, plus the annuity relating to the year of redemption, when it is not done, with effective payment, by 31st March. § 3 The application shall then be returned to the party, who has to effect the payment into the safe of the amount calculated. § 4 At the time of payment, the clerk of the comunidade’ shall mention below the calculation set out in the application the following note: “The above amount was paid on this date, by item no………, mentioned at pg…….. of the Cash Book No…. and noted the transference in the corresponding entry in the Register 2, No…… § 5 The application containing the calculation and note referred to above, shall remain in possession of the interested party, who shall return it to the clerk no sooner he obtains the certified copy of the redemptions effected, with the designations contained in the respective lists, wherein reference is made to the payment effected.