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June 9, 2026

The Irrevocable Power of Attorney for the Sale of Property in Lebanon: Its Limits and Prescription

Is the irrevocable power of attorney for the sale of real property in Lebanon valid, and is it caught by prescription? A legal guide: the basis of irrevocability (Art. 810 COC), the survival of the mandate after the principal's death (Art. 818), and why the five-year limit on inscribing a real right (Art. 50 of Decree No. 188/1926) does not catch it, unlike the ordinary mandate....

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Real Estate Law
June 9, 2026

How to Buy Property in Lebanon: The Legal Steps from Verification to Inscription

A practical guide to the steps of buying property in Lebanon — land or an apartment — from the land-registry search to inscription: the land-registry extract, the promise of sale and provisional inscription, the authentic deed before the notary, inscription at the Land Registry (the moment ownership passes), and the fees — with a table of steps and a fees calculator....

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Real Estate Law
May 25, 2026

Condominium Ownership of Built Immovables in Lebanese Law — Eighth and Final Part of the Practical Guide to the Lebanese Code of Real Property

Detailed exposition of Legislative Decree No. 88 of 16 September 1983 on condominium ownership of built immovables in Lebanese law — definition of private units and common areas, property administration regulations, assembly of co-owners, required majorities, recovery of charges, real-property privilege, and settled doctrine. Eighth and final part of the series on Lebanese real-property law....

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Real Estate Law
May 25, 2026

Land Delimitation and Registration Works in Lebanese Law — Part Seven of the Practical Guide to the Code of Real Property

Part Seven of the Practical Guide to the Lebanese Code of Real Property — Decree No. 186 of 15 March 1926. Sets out the integrality of the Lebanese Code of Land Delimitation and Registration Works: the institutional architecture entrusted to the single land judge, the opening of operations, provisional delimitation in the presence of the mokhtar, the first thirty-day window for declarations and oppositions, the consolidation of operations, the regime of finality and appeal of decisions, the two-year preclusive period...

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Real Estate Law
May 25, 2026

The Land Registry in Lebanese Law — Part Six of the Practical Guide to the Code of Real Property

Part Six of the Practical Guide to the Lebanese Code of Real Property — Decrees No. 188 and No. 189 of 15 March 1926. Sets out Articles 1 to 29 and 95-96 of Decree 188 (definition of the Registry, publicity, types of inscription, protection of good faith, provisional inscription after the 1999 reform, cancellation, notice of *lis pendens*, liability of the Land Registrar) and Articles 1 to 33 of Decree 189 (ownership ledger, daily journal, complementary registers, inscription of non-immatriculated...

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by Malek Kallas
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Real Estate Law
May 25, 2026

The Promise of Sale, the Right of Pre-emption, and Acquisitive Prescription in Lebanese Real-Property Law — Part Five of the Practical Guide to the Code of Real Property

Practical guide to three modes of acquisition of real rights on immovables outside the general rule of inscription in the Lebanese Code of Real Property (Decree 3339/1930): the promise of sale and the faculty of option (Articles 220 to 227), the right of pre-emption with its three statutory categories and short time limits (Articles 238 to 254), and acquisitive prescription with its four immunised categories after Law 583/2004 (Articles 255 to 266)....

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Real Estate Law
May 25, 2026

Privileges, Mortgages, and Forced Sale in Lebanese Real-Property Law — Part Four of the Practical Guide to the Code of Real Property

Practical guide to the rules of the real-property privileges, the mortgage, and forced sale in the Lebanese Code of Real Property (Decree 3339/1930, Articles 117 to 173): the three exclusive real-property privileges, the general rules of the mortgage, the conventional and legal mortgage in their five cases, the rights of the mortgage creditor, the effects vis-à-vis the third-party acquirer, the extinction of the mortgage by cancellation, and the rule of forced sale with renvoi to the Lebanese Code of Civil...

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by Malek Kallas
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Real Estate Law
May 25, 2026

The Immovable Pledge and the *Vente à Réméré* in Lebanese Law — Part Three of the Practical Guide to the Code of Real Property

Practical guide to the rules of the immovable pledge and the *vente à réméré* in the Lebanese Code of Real Property (Decree 3339/1930, Articles 91 to 116): the *vente à réméré* in its Lebanese sense and the sale with right of exploitation; distinction from the classical *vente à réméré* of Article 473 of the Code of Obligations and Contracts; definition of the *gage*, prohibition of the *pacte commissoire*, indivisibility, maintenance of the pledged immovable, and extinction of the pledge by...

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