Jurisprudência

  • Informações sobre o processo
    • ID nacional: Supreme Court of Justice, Judgment 3975/16.4T8VIS-A.C1. S1
    • Estado-Membro: Portugal
    • Designação comum:N/A
    • Tipo de decisão: Decisão do Supremo Tribunal
    • Data da decisão: 29/10/2019
    • Tribunal: Supremo Tribunal de Justiça
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    • Palavras-chave: Consumer rights, consumer guarantee
  • Artigos da diretiva
    Consumer Sales and Guarantees Directive, Article 1, 2., (a)
  • Nota introdutória

    The promissory purchaser is regarded as a consumer if he applies the property, which is the object of tradition, for private use, in the sense that he does not buy it for resale or allocate it to a professional or profitable activity.

    In this case, we are not faced with a reality that is under the concept of consumer and inherent recognition of the right of retention, since the first plaintiff used the fraction for both social and professional activities, with a lucrative scope; the second plaintiff used the fraction for the activity of the company, with the aim of obtaining an income (expense savings).

  • Factos

    In the insolvency proceedings of the promissory seller, a judgement was issued to verify and rank the claims, where they were graduated as ordinary creditors.

    The first plaintiff had affected the house to its social and professional activity, with a lucrative scope; the second plaintiff had affected the house to the activity of the company, with the aim of obtaining an income (expense savings).

    The plaintiffs, disagreeing with this decision, appealed.

    The appeal was partially upheld by the Court.

    The creditors, who disagreed, appealed to the Supreme Court of Justice.

  • Questões jurídicas

    Can the promiser-buyer be considered a consumer if the house is used for a professional activity or for the activity of the company, with the sole aim of saving expenses?

  • Decisão

    The consumer who is considered by diplomas is the one to whom goods or services are supplied for non-professional use.

    It is not clear from the established facts that the applicant has promised to buy the house for non-professional use.

    The consumer is the promissory buyer who disposes of the property, which is the object of a trade, for private use. That is to say, does not buy it for resale nor does he assign it to a professional or profitable activity.

    It is in relation to the natural person who, in the first line, feels the need for protection, because they are usually the weakest or economically weakest or less technically prepared party.

    However, it is accepted that there are situations that may justify another consideration and a different solution, namely if the reasons - economic weakness or a situation of imbalance due to insufficient information (technical unpredictability) and weak bargaining power - that underlie the concept of the consumer occur, as can happen in the case of a modest company that purchases a good or service alien to its specific activity (and competence).

    Thus, assuming the right of retention that the respective recipient has that status, that right cannot be recognised to the plaintiff.

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  • Resultado

    The Court upheld the Second Instance Court judgement.

    Through this judgement, the Court considered that the promissory purchaser is regarded as a consumer if he applies the property, which is the object of tradition, for private use, in the sense that he does not buy it for resale or allocate it to a professional or profitable activity.