Valuation procedure regarding expropriated assets and double registration

Abstract

The  judgment of the  Supreme Court  of February  1, 2019  allows  to analyze  the  possible  insufficiency of  the  mere  consignment in  the  General  Deposit Fund  of the  amount of the  fair price in  the  cases  of expropriation of estates  subject to double  registration when from  the  beginning of the  procedure for their  valuation the registered owners would not  have acted as interested parties.  Their intervention in this  procedure is an unavoidable requirement imposed for the full protection of their respective  rights,  which, moreover, is particularly appropriate since  the Article 3 of the Law of Compulsory Expropriation considers the registered owner  as the rightful owner.