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703 — Puerto Rico Law | CourtGPT
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Puerto Rico Legal Code

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The owner of the lower or servient tenement also has the right to construct thereon moats, dikes, or walls, which, while not interfering with the course of the waters, will tend to regulate their flow or permit their use in a proper case. History —Law of Waters, art. 71.