BUYING AND SELLING. - Sale, or c., is the contract by which one person (the seller) transfers ownership of a thing or another right to another person (the buyer) in exchange for a price (art. 1470 of the Civil Code). This contract, which is among the most important, is "onerous" and, by its nature, "non-aleatory" (v. CONTRATTO).
In Italian civil law the c. generally produces the transfer of ownership as soon as the consent of the contracting parties has been given, unless the thing sold is a genus, that is, a quantity of fungible things (v. cosa); in which case it is further necessary that the things be identified (arts. 1376-78): it is never necessary, however, that the thing be actually delivered or that the price be paid. Foreign legislations follow the same principles: only, in the case of the sale of immovable property, some of them make the transfer of ownership subject to the registration of the contract in special public registers.
The seller is obliged: 1) to deliver the thing to the buyer; 2) to procure for him the acquisition of ownership of the thing, if the acquisition is not an immediate effect of the contract; 3) to guarantee the buyer in the case of eviction (that is, in the case in which a third party claims rights over the thing), or in the case that the thing is affected by defects that render it unfit for use or considerably diminish its value (art. 1476). For his part, the buyer must pay the agreed price.
The problems that this very common contract presents to moral theology are many: they concern the just price, competition, cornering, profit, auction (v. LICITAZIONE), monopoly, mandate, agencies, etc. (v. the individual entries).
Bibliography10 worksH. Possidonius, Tractatus de emptione et venditione: ubi etiam de locatione et conductione, Bologna 1859; G. B. De Luca, De emptione et vend
BIBL.: H. Possidonius, Tractatus de emptione et venditione: ubi etiam de locatione et conductione, Bologna 1859; G. B. De Luca, De emptione et venditione, in Theatrum veritatis et iustitiae, VII, Rome 1680; G. J. Waffelaert, De iustitia, I, Bruges 1886, pp. 506-608 and p. 19; II, ibid. 1887, p. 208; B. Oiesti, Emptia, venditia, in Synopsis rerum moralium et iuris pontificii, 3rd ed., Rome 1912, coll. 1754-60; D. M. Prümmer, Manuale theologiae moralis, 4th-5th ed., II, Freiburg im Br. 1928, pp. 247-56, nos. 291-301; I. García - F. Bagón, Compensación en la venta, in Illustr. del clero, 35 (1942), pp. 105-108; A. Mancini, C., in Palestra del clero, 21 (1942), pp. 63 ff.; G. Lucchi, C., in Perfic. munus, 18 (1943), p. 52 ff.; I. Aspiazu, La moral del hombre de negocios, Madrid 1944.
Ceriani, Grazioso. “Compravendita.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, coll. 103–104. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/compravendita.
MLA
Ceriani, Grazioso. “Compravendita.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, coll. 103–104. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/compravendita.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec4_compravendita,
author = {Ceriani, Grazioso},
title = {Compravendita},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {IV},
pages = {103--104},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1950},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/compravendita}
}
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