{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:article:2040","workId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:en","title":"2. Lease not registered in Registers of Immovable Property","number":"2040","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/2040/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK VI - SPECIAL CONTRACTS","title":"TITLE II - CONTRACTS FOR THE CUSTODY, USE OR POSSESSION OF THINGS","chapter":"Chapter 2. - Lease","section":"Section 2. - Lease of Immovable","paragraph":"Paragraph 1. - General Provisions"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"p1","number":"1","text":"The person who acquires the immovable may regard the lease as having been made for an indeterminate period, where it has not been registered in the registers of immovable property in the place Avhere the immovable is situate.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/2040/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":568,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/568/?article=2040&paragraph=p1#article-2040-p1"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"Where the date of the lease is certain, the lessee may set it up against the purchaser during five years from the purchaser having registered his contract in the registers of immovable property.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/2040/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":568,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/568/?article=2040&paragraph=p2#article-2040-p2"}]}],"caution":"This is the 2015 English-language edition attributed in its front matter to the Ministry of Justice. Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation, later changes, or whether the text is currently in force. Nine passages are incomplete in the available scan and are identified where they occur."}