Difference of Legal and Conventional Redemption

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Legal Redemption

(Article 1619-1623)

It is the right to be subrogated, upon the same terms and conditions stipulated in the contract, in
the place of one who acquires a thing by purchase or dation in payment, or by any other
transaction whereby ownership is transmitted by onerous title.

Nature of Legal Redemption:


● identical with conventional redemption, except for the source of the right – conventional
redemption arises from the voluntary agreement of the parties; legal redemption
proceeds from law;
● it is not predicated on proprietary right but on a bare statutory privilege to be exercised
only by the person named in the statute – the statute does not make actual ownership at
the time of sale or redemption a condition precedent, the right following the person and
not the property
● it is in the nature of a mere privilege created partly for reason of public policy and partly
for the benefit and convenience of the redemptioner to afford him a way out of what
might be a disagreeable or inconvenient association.

Conventional Redemption
(Article 1601-1618)

It is the right which the vendor reserves to himself, to reacquire the property sold provided her
returns to the vendee the price of the sale, the expenses of the contract, any other legitimate
payments made therefore and the necessary and useful expenses made on the thing sold, and
fulfills other stipulations which may have been agreed upon.

Nature of Conventional Redemption:


● it is purely contractual because it is a right created, not by mandate of the law, but by
virtue of an express contract;
● it is an accidental stipulation and, therefore, its nullity cannot affect the sale of itself
since the latter might be entered into without said stipulation;
● it is a real right when registered, because it binds third persons;
● it is a resolutory condition because when exercised, the right of ownership acquired by
the vendee is extinguished;
● it is potestative because it depends upon the will of the vendor;
● it is a power or privilege, not an obligation, that the vendor has reserved for himself;
● it is reserved at the moment of the perfection of the contract for if the right to repurchase
is agreed upon afterwards, there is only a promise to sell which produces different rights
and effects and is governed by Art. 1479;
● the person entitled to exercise the right of redemption necessarily is the owner of the
property sold and not any third party;
● it gives rise to reciprocal obligation that of returning the price of sale and other
expenses, on the part of the vendor, and that of delivering the property and executing a
deed of sale therefore, on the part of the vendee

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