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 A Lawsuit in Mexico two-thirds of the appraised valuation of the attached properties. Let it be notiﬁed. Decreed and signed by the Citizen Second Judge of First Instance, in accordance with article 1411 of the Code

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shall have the right to intervene in the

sale, and take any steps appropriate to protect their interests, and can appeal from the decree approving the sale.

We

The judge shall decide all such claims

all

summarily and upon his responsibility.

The publication of the decree of sale, nearly two newspaper columns in length,

appraisers, and any plans there may be

of the property on sale, shall be exposed

proceeded once a week for three weeks,

to view.

that being the period of issuance of the

their bids and shall be furnished with

of Commerce.

December 15, 1908.

attest. [Followed parties]

by

signatures

of

During the sale the report of the

Bidders shall be free to make

It

all such information which they may

will be noticed that the day certain for

ask and which is to be found in the

the sale is not named, it being indicated

record. All bids must be in writing, and shall state the name, age, legal capacity,

two papers named in the decree.

merely as “the ninth lawful day after” the last publication. In Mexico the whole newspaper containing legal ad

status, profession and domicile of the bidder, and the same details in respect

vertisements is added bodily to the ﬁles and sewed into the record; this is no doubt the “best evidence" of the

to his surety; the amount which he offers for the estate, specifying how much will be paid in cash, and the

fact of publication, rather than our

time which he wishes for deferred payments, and rate of interest he is willing to pay; and he shall expressly

"affidavit of the publisher” with a clip ping of the advertisement attached. The record recites the receipt and in

declare his submission to the jurisdic

sertion therein on January 5, 1909, of these newspapers containing the ad

tion of the court so that the contract may be enforced against him. The bids must be guaranteed by a surety,

vertisements of sale; and that on the same day the judge designated the

13th day of January as the date for

unless the oﬂer is all in cash, in which event the sum is to be deposited with

the sale, notice of which was given to

the judge.

all parties, and they signed. A brief résumé may here be made of the chapter of the Code of Civil Pro cedure governing the execution sale of real property; it being remarked

bid must be signed before an oﬁicial

that sales of personal

property are

always held at the local Monte de Piedad, or oﬂicial pawn shop maintained nearly everywhere. The chapter De la: Remotes, or concerning execution sales, provides that they shall be held in the ofﬁce of the court, and must be

accompanied by the certiﬁcate in regard to incumbrances for the preceding twenty years, and that all creditors appearing in such certiﬁcate must be cited to attend the sale. Such creditors

The paper containing the

corredor, or broker, and the surety guarantees the bid and all raises which

the bidder may make. If the execution creditor wishes to become a bidder, he need only bid an amount in excess of

his judgment debt. One person cannot make a bid for another, except under

formal power of attorney. No bid shall be legal which does not equal at least

two thirds of the valuation ﬁxed by the appraisers. On the day of the sale, at the hour named, the judge will

personally pass a list of the bidders presented, and shall grant half an hour for new bidders to offer, at the expira tion of which time the sale shall proceed