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....
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....