{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:article:2018","workId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:en","title":"Lease and Sale","number":"2018","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/2018/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK VI - SPECIAL CONTRACTS","title":"TITLE II - CONTRACTS FOR THE CUSTODY, USE OR POSSESSION OF THINGS","chapter":"Chapter 2. - Lease","section":"Section 2. - Lease of Immovable","paragraph":"Paragraph 1. - General Provisions"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"Where it is agreed that the lessee shall become the owner of the immovable after the payment of a certain number of terms of rent, the contract shall constitute a sale, notwithstanding that the parties have termed it as a contract of lease.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/2018/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":562,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/562/?article=2018&paragraph=lead#article-2018-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."}