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.

Título ejecutivo — the instrument that opens the juicio ejecutivo

Every Argentine `subasta judicial` of an inmueble sits at the end of a juicio ejecutivo (or of the executory stage of a judgment), and every juicio ejecutivo begins with a document the law itself declares enforceable: the título ejecutivo, the instrument that “trae aparejada ejecución”. The judge does not try the debt. He examines the document, and if it is one of the enumerated types he issues the mandamiento de embargo without hearing the debtor first. That is why the título matters more to the ejecutado than the underlying contract: the only defences later admitted (`excepciones`) attack the form of the title, not the cause of the debt.

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