Argentina (AR) — civil law.
Nothing on this page describes United States practice. There is no certificate sold to an investor, no administrative sale of land for unpaid tax, and no redemption window after a
subasta judicialin Argentina. If you arrived carrying US assumptions, read falsos-amigos first.
Maquinaria registrable (M.A.V.I.)
A self-propelled agricultural, road or industrial machine is, in Argentine law, an
automotor. The [[nacion/decreto-ley-6582-58-regimen-del-automotor|Régimen Jurídico del
Automotor]] (art. 5) lists “las maquinarias agrícolas incluidas tractores, cosechadoras,
grúas, maquinarias viales y todas aquellas que se autopropulsen”; Resolución MJ 17/1997
added “la maquinaria industrial que se autopropulse” and gave the former Registros de Créditos Prendarios exclusive competence, renamed Registros Seccionales … con Competencia Exclusiva sobre Maquinaria Agrícola, Vial o Industrial y de Créditos Prendarios. So a combine harvester bought at a subasta is inscribed by oficio at a
DNRPA seccional, carries a dominio, plates, título and cédula, and its prenda
sits on the same folio — exactly like a pickup.
The trap is age. Disposición DN 948/97 made inscription obligatory, “en una primera
etapa”, only for new machinery manufactured in Argentina from 1 December 1997 by
registered manufacturers and for machinery imported from that date. Older machines may
have no DNRPA folio at all, and pledges over machinery made or imported before 1
December 1997 “continue” in the Registros de Créditos Prendarios. Before bidding on a
machine, therefore, establish which world it lives in: a DNRPA folio (search by dominio or
by owner), or none — in which case its pledges must be searched in the prenda registry by
location and description, and the sale behaves much more like a sale of
unregistered equipment.
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