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About the arbitrability of the consumer conflict in Chile: basic supply for a structural replanting
This work addresses the arbitrability of the consumer conflict in chilean law, as a starting point for the rethinking of the entire arbitration system on consumer issues in Chile. It deals with arbitrability in its subjective and material manifestations, and reviews the effects generated in this area by the inalienability of consumer rights, the imperative nature of the norms of Law No 19.496, about protection of consumer rights, and the scope of art. 230 of the Organic Code of Courts, about prohibited arbitration.
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THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE INFRINGEMENT OF MARRIAGE DUTIES DO NOT GIVE RISE TO LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES
In accordance with our rules and jurisprudence, the consequences of the breach of marital duties shall not be compensated, as they are not obligations. Additionally, Law establishes special effects in this case, the protection of fundamental rights of the spouses is opposed to compensation and there are huge difficulties to assess the requirements of civil liability.
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La autonomía de la indemnización de daños y la opción del acreedor frente al incumplimiento de una obligación de dar. Corte Suprema de 30 de enero de 2020, rol 8596-2018. Cita en línea Legal Publishing n.° CL/JUR/10063/2020
En un comentario realizado en la misma sección de esta revista el año 2017 nos referimos a la autonomía de la indemnización derivada del vencimiento del término esencial y de la infracción de los deberes de advertencia a propósito de la sentencia pronunciada por la Corte Suprema en Bustos con Lombardi, complementando un análisis jurisprudencial que efectuamos durante los años 2014 y 2015 y que dogmáticamente iniciamos en 2010. Desde esa época hasta la fecha la tesis de la autonomía se ha asentado en forma contundente en la doctrina nacional y en las sentencias de nuestros tribunales de justicia, de modo que parecería inoficioso volver sobre el mismo tópico. Más aún si se trata de una sentencia recientemente comentada por Hernán Corral en El Mercurio Legal en que precisamente destaca el ejercicio exclusivo de la pretensión indemnizatoria como opción del acreedor. (...)
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NOTARIAL INSTRUCTIONS AND THE ROLE OF THE NOTARY PUBLIC IN THE PAYMENT OF THE PRICE AT THE SALE
A recent decision of the Supreme Court offers valuable guidelines regarding the way in which a notary public must comply with the instructions given by the parties at a sale to pay the price. The decision highlights the lack of leeway of the notary public in order to determine the scope of the instructions, as well as his or her inability to interfere in the risk allocation agreed by the parties. The Supreme Court also deepens in the legal nature of the instructions and applies to them the rules of the contract of mandate. The commentary critically reviews these subjects in view of the practical scope which the instructions fulfil.
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THE CURATORSHIP OF THE INSANE UNDER INTERDICTION BY HIS SPOUSE OR CIVIL PARTNER. A READING ON SECTIONS 462 AND 503 OF THE CHILEAN CIVIL CODE
This work addresses the apparent contradiction that occurs between Sections 462 and 503 of the Chilean Civil Code regarding the inability that one spouse must be the guardian of the other who suffers from dementia, a situation that also extends to civil partners according to Act number 20.830. It is accentuated by certain jurisprudence interpretation that seems to prevail and that considers that the total separation of assets prevents that curatorship is discerned. Due to the changes that these norms have undergone since the promulgation of the Civil Code, the understanding of this evolution and a systematic reading of the keeper system is crucial to establish the meaning and scope of the inability of a spouse or civil partner to be curator of the other. By the way, this system requires urgent adjustment to bring it into line with internal and international standards on disability.
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LEGITIMATION AND PUBLICITY REGARDING THE REGISTRATION OF A SEPARATION OF GOODS AGREEMENT
The Supreme Court rejected an appeal on the merits filed to reverse the dismissal of a third-party possession. The basis for this decision was that the act of awarding the rights to a property because of the liquidation of a community derived from a conjugal community and the payment of an alimony for which a person transferred the remaining percentage of rights to favor of their ex-spouse required a differentiated treatment, distinguishing it from the separate property agreement entered in the same instrument. Specifically, the discussion focused on the role of registry entry with respect to adjudication, which the third party considered was expressly required by law, but whose origin results from the general rules that inform the Chilean registry system, without forgetting the particularities of the conjugal community regime.