Question juridique clé
Whether the appellant could obtain an acquisition permit for agricultural land bought in a forced sale despite not being a self-farmer and despite an excessive price.
Solution extraite
No. Although the statutory exceptions for forced sale and mortgagee acquisition would normally apply, the transaction was an impermissible circumvention of the Rural Land Law.
Motifs extraits
The court held that the land and debt transactions were arranged so that the appellant could acquire the property through foreclosure while bypassing the self-farming requirement and the statutory price limit. An acquisition permit must be refused when the security interest was created or acquired not for security purposes, but to enable such an indirect acquisition.