delivered the opinion of the court.
Article 390 of the Mortgage Law provides:
“To carry into effect the provisions of the preceding article, owners who lack a recorded title of ownership, no matter when the property was acquired, are given the power of recording their titles, .first accrediting their possession before the judge of first instance of the place where the property is located, the fiscal to be given a hearing and the neighbors with properties adjacent to be cited, should ■they desire to record the absolute ownership of a piece of land, and with citation of the owner or others having an interest in the property, if they desire to record some other right, ’ ’ etc.
Article 391 provides:
“In the execution of the provisions of the preceding article, the ■following rules shall be observed:
“First. The document in which the admission of the proceedings is requested shall contain:
“1. The nature, location, area, boundaries, name, and encumbrances on the estate the possession of which it is desired to prove.
“2. The legal nature, value, conditions, and encumbrances on the property right the possession of which is in question, and the nature, location, boundaries, and name, should it have any, of the estate on which 'such right exists.
“:3. The name and surnames of the person from whom the realty <or interest was acquired.
Page 576‘ ‘ 4. Tbe length of time tbe possession bas been bad, tbe circumstance of demanding a written title or tbe difficulty of finding it, should it exist.
“Second. The proceedings shall be conducted with two or more witnesses, landowners of the town or municipal district in which the estates are located.”
This being the state of the law on February 9, 1911, Lucas Melendez Alboy presented to the Registrar of Property of Gruayama an order of the Municipal Court of Cayey in a possessory proceeding, to which articles 390. and 391 refer. The papers in the proceeding show that no witnesses appeared in person before the Municipal Judge of Cayey, but instead thereof three affidavits were presented, and these affidavits were sworn to before the justice of the peace of Cidra. There was no question of the sufficiency in law of the matter, set out in the affidavits, but when the order was presented to the Registrar of Gruayama he refused to record the same because the proceeding failed to comply with the provisions of the Mortgage Law above set forth, and because the power of the municipal court to take the proof could not be delegated.
We think the action of the registrar was entirely justified by the law. It is contended that the provisions of the Mortgage Law have been superseded by the changed procedure, and especially by sections 123 and following of the Law of Evidence. Section 123, it is true, says that the testimony of witnesses may be taken in three modes, namely, first, by affidavit; second, by deposition; third, by oral examination, but sections 128 and 133 define the cases in which affidavits may be taken. By section 128 it becomes clear that an affidavit is generally an ancillary proceeding or something to support or verify another paper or proceeding or “expressly permitted by some other provision of this, or any law of Porto Rico.” Expressio unius est exclusio alte-rius. There is no special authority of law for an affidavit in a possessory proceeding.
Affirmed.