Jurisprudência

  • Informações sobre o processo
    • ID nacional: Supreme Court of Justice, Judgement 684/14.2TBAMT.P1.S1
    • Estado-Membro: Portugal
    • Designação comum:N/A
    • Tipo de decisão: Decisão do Supremo Tribunal
    • Data da decisão: 05/12/2019
    • Tribunal: Supremo Tribunal de Justiça
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    • Palavras-chave: guarantee, consumer rights, consumer guarantee
  • Artigos da diretiva
    Consumer Sales and Guarantees Directive, RECITALS, (8) Consumer Sales and Guarantees Directive, Article 5, 1.
  • Nota introdutória

    In cases where the owner of the company passes on ownership of the property to a third party, whose construction he has contracted with a construction company, and the buyer intends to require the contractor to eliminate defects in the work by means of repair or replacement, the 5-year guarantee period runs from the date of delivery of the work by the contractor to the respective owner and not from the date of acquisition of the property by the third-party purchaser from the latter.

  • Factos

    The author acquired, by exchange, from the civil construction company a property destined for habitation, for which this society contracted its construction with another society, whose corporate purpose is the civil construction industry and public works contracts.

    After inhabiting the building, the author found that it presented humidity and requested its repair, which did not happen.

    The defendants challenged claiming the forfeiture of the right to denounce the defects.

    The Court of First Instance upheld the claim in part and, consequently, ordered the defendant to proceed immediately to remedy all defects in the building.

    Unhappy with this decision, the defendant appealed to the Oporto Court of Appeal, which, by the judgement delivered, granted the appeal.

    The plaintiffs then appealed to the Supreme Court of Justice.

  • Questões jurídicas

    Does the guarantee term renew in the event of transfer of the good?

  • Decisão

    The warranty period, related to the legal moment imposed for the verification of the work, is not renewed after each transfer of ownership, leaving the third buyer in the same position that the owner of the work had before the constructor.

    If on the date of sale of the property the seller of the work no longer has any right over the contractor to eliminate defects, to carry out new work, or to compensation corresponding to the cost of repairing these defects, he may also no longer assign any of these rights to the third party purchaser of the property, as otherwise, the third-party purchaser of long-term properties would have more rights over the contractors than the owners of the work have over them.

    URL: http://www.dgsi.pt/jstj.nsf/954f0ce6ad9dd8b980256b5f003fa814/3b96e187fdb2020a802584c7005d9fd4?OpenDocument

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  • Resultado

    The Court revoked the Second Instance Court judgement.

    Through this judgement, the Court considered that the 5-year guarantee period runs from the date of delivery of the work by the contractor to the respective owner and not from the date of acquisition of the property by the third-party purchaser from the latter.