Abstract: Susceptibility, high-field magnetisation, resistivity and heat capacity data for the CePd3Bx system are reported. The observed valence transition of Ce is the first example of a transition from an IV state system to a stable magnetic 4f1 state system, whose properties are tentatively ascribed to an aleatory cooperative state, due to the inhomogeneous character of the valence transition, rather than to a Kondo effect.