Text of the provision

Art. 667. No part-owner may, without the consent of the others, open through the party wall any window or aperture of any kind.

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Civil Code of the Philippines, Republic Act No. 386, approved June 18, 1949, effective August 30, 1950. Reproduced in full; verified verbatim against the LawPhil and ChanRobles official-text renderings.

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A part-owner may not cut any window or aperture of any kind through a party wall. He needs the consent of the other part-owners first.

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