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time, let alone a space of more than 17 years, brought into play the doctrine of
estoppel to preclude any attempt to avoid the mortgage as allegedly
unauthorized. Equally or even more preclusive of the respondent partnerships
claim to the mortgaged property is the last paragraph of Art. 1819 of the Civil
Code, which contemplates a situation similar to the case at bar. It states that
where the title to real property is in the names of all the partners, a conveyance
executed by all the partners passes all their rights in such property.
Consequently, those members' acts, declarations and omissions cannot be
deemed to be simply the individual acts of said members, but infact and in law,
those of the partnership.