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.

Sentencia de trance y remate — the order that carries the execution forward

The juicio ejecutivo ends not with a judgment on the debt but with a sentencia de remate — in practice called the sentencia de trance y remate — whose content the national code confines to one binary. CPCCN art. 551: “La sentencia de remate sólo podrá determinar que se lleve la ejecución adelante, en todo o en parte, o su rechazo.” It is the hinge of the whole process: before it, the ejecutado may raise his `excepciones`; after it, the file enters the cumplimiento de la sentencia de remate (arts. 559 ff.), which is where the `subasta` of the inmueble is actually ordered.

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