Argentina (AR) — civil law.

Nothing on this page describes United States practice. There is no certificate sold to an investor, no administrative sale, and no post-sale redemption window in Argentina. If you arrived carrying US assumptions, read falsos-amigos first.

Conceptos

Doctrine that holds across jurisdictions. Where a rule is provincial, the page says so and sends you to index.

The spine

• subasta-judicial — the master page. What a subasta is and how one runs.
• juicio-de-apremio — how unpaid property tax becomes a forced sale.
• ejecucion-hipotecaria — how an unpaid hipoteca becomes a forced sale.
• purga-y-el-limite-temporal — how the debtor stops it, and by when.
• remanente — where the money above the debt goes.

Buying

• base-y-valuacion-fiscal — why the opening price looks impossibly low.
• sena-y-saldo-de-precio — the deposit and the balance.
• costos-de-la-subasta — the real cost stack on top of the hammer price.
• expensas-y-el-adquirente-en-subasta — the expensive one. What survives.
• prioridad-de-creditos — the distribution waterfall.
• titulo-del-adquirente-en-subasta — how title actually passes.
• desalojo-y-lanzamiento — getting possession.
• ocupantes — who is in the property, and what that costs you.

Title and diligence

• estudio-de-titulos — the Argentine substitute for a title-assurance market.
• bloqueo-registral — the priority reservation that makes it work.
• inhibicion-general-de-bienes — the encumbrance that is filed against a person, not a parcel, and that a parcel search will miss.
• usucapion — turning possession into registered title.

Attacking a sale

• nulidad-de-subasta — grounds, timing, and what happens to the buyer.
• edictos — publication, and defective publication as a ground.

Structure

• martillero-publico — who conducts the auction.
• departamento-judicial-vs-departamento-administrativo — the partition that decides which court, which portal, which boletín.

Comparison

• contraste-eeuu-argentina — the only page on this wiki that discusses United States law. It exists so that the comparison happens once, in a controlled place, instead of leaking into every page.