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.
Tradición and posesión of the adquirente — título and modo after the subasta
An Argentine buyer does not own the property when the hammer falls, nor when the court
approves the sale, nor when he pays. He owns it when he has both a sufficient
título and the modo — and for an inmueble the modo is tradición: the
physical handing-over of possession. This is the civil-law teoría del título y el modo,
and the auction code builds its last steps on it.
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