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Mandato y Poder para Subastar — Bidding Through a Representative

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jurisdictionAR
legal_systemcivil-law
authorityCCyC arts. 358, 362–363, 366, 375 inc. e, 376, 380, 1017 inc. a, 1319–1320, 2649; CPCCN arts. 46–47, 123, 571; Ley 23.458 (Hague Apostille Convention, B.O. 21/4/1987); CSJN Acordada 15/2025 arts. 6–7, 9, 11; SCBA Acuerdo 3604 arts. 11–12; Reglamento TSJ Córdoba art. 11
descriptionA bidder who will not sign in person acts through an apoderado. The CCyC requires express powers to acquire real rights over inmuebles (art. 375 e) and makes the poder follow the form of the act (art. 363) — but the subasta purchase itself is exempt from escritura pública (art. 1017 a), so the formal requirement comes from the procedural codes (CPCCN art. 47: 'escritura de poder') and the portals (CSJN Acordada 15/2025; SCBA Ac. 3604; Córdoba reglamento). A poder executed abroad needs apostille under Ley 23.458 and a sworn translation (CPCCN art. 123). The apoderado is not the compra en comisión.
last_verified2026-10-09
tagsconceptos, argentina

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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 judicial in Argentina. If you arrived carrying US assumptions, read falsos-amigos first.

Mandato and poder to bid at a subasta

A buyer who cannot or will not appear — a foreign investor, a company, a busy principal — bids through someone else. Argentine law offers two different devices and they must not be confused:

  1. Disclosed representation — an apoderado holding a poder bids in the principal’s name. The principal is the buyer from the first click.
  2. Undisclosed principal — `compra en comisión`: the bidder buys in his own name and names the comitente within 3 days (CPCCN art. 571); otherwise he is the buyer.

This page is about the first.

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The substantive rules (what a poder must contain, its form, when it ends) are national — CCyC. What a court or a portal demands as proof of the poder is procedural: the CPCCN for national courts, each provincial CPCC and each portal’s reglamento elsewhere. Read the portal rule for the court that is selling.

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The opening section is open to everyone. The procedure in detail — statutes, deadlines, who may bid, and what the record does not say — is behind a free account.

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