P.R. Laws tit. 31, § 3408 : ONE Civil Code —Subtitle 4 Obligations and Contracts —PART II. Contracts —Chapter 255. Requisites for Validity of Contracts —Subchapter I. Consent —§ 3408. Deceit TEXT PDF There is deceit when by words or insidious machinations on the part of one of the contracting parties the other is induced to execute a contract which without them he would not have made. History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1221.