Any conventional or judicial deed constituting a mortgage shall be registered in conformity with
the rules of publicity enacted for that purpose by the State Party where the encumbered property
is situated.
A regularly published mortgage shall take its rank on the date of registration.
Where the real property rights subject of a mortgage consists of other proprietary rights such as
usufruct, surface rights, long lease or building lease, notice of the registration of the mortgage
shall be given to the usufructuary, to the owner of the soil and subsoil or to the lessor.
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In force from 15 December 2010
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