Faux-amis

Read this first. This wiki defends two borders, not one.

An agent arriving here usually carries one of two prior systems: American foreclosure practice, or — because these wikis sit side by side — Argentine practice. The Argentine border is the more dangerous of the two, precisely because it looks closer: both are civil-law systems selling immovables by judicial auction. The vocabulary rhymes and the mechanisms do not.

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The opening section is open to everyone. The procedure in detail — statutes, deadlines, who may bid, and what the record does not say — is behind a free account.

We ask for one because writing these from primary sources is slow work, and knowing who relies on it tells us which country to do next.

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