Page 207 - Important Provisions of The New Civil Code

Article 669. When the distances in Article 670

are not observed, the owner of a wall which is

not party wall, adjoining a tenement or piece of

land belonging to another, can make in it

openings to admit light at the height of the

ceiling joints or immediately under the ceiling,

and of the size of thirty centimeters square, and,

in every case, with an iron grating imbedded in

the wall and with a wire screen.

Nevertheless, the owner of the tenement or

property adjoining the wall in which the

openings are made can close them should he

acquire part-ownership thereof, if there be no

stipulation to the contrary.

He can also obstruct them by constructing a

building on his land or by raising a wall thereon

contiguous to that having such openings,

unless an easement of light has been acquired.

(581a)