{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:article:1727","workId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:en","title":"Definition","number":"1727","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1727/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK VI - SPECIAL CONTRACTS","title":"TITLE I - CONTRACTS RELATING TO THE TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP AND OTHER RIGHTS","chapter":"Chapter 1. - Sale","section":"Section 1. - General Provisions","paragraph":null},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"A contract of sale is a contract whereby one of the parties, the seller, undertakes to deliver a thing and transfer its ownership to another party, the buyer, in consideration of a price expressed in money which the buyer undertakes to pay him.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1727/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":486,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/486/?article=1727&paragraph=lead#article-1727-lead"}]}],"caution":"This is the 2015 English-language edition attributed in its front matter to the Ministry of Justice. Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation, later changes, or whether the text is currently in force. Nine passages are incomplete in the available scan and are identified where they occur."}