Question juridique clé
Whether the land transfer based on the divorce judgment could be registered after the husband’s bankruptcy
Solution extraite
No. Once bankruptcy was declared, the debtor could no longer validly dispose of assets belonging to the estate; the transfer required the bankruptcy administration’s consent and was therefore not registerable.
Motifs extraits
Bankruptcy restricts the debtor’s power of disposition over estate assets. The relevant time was the settlement’s entry into force, but by then bankruptcy had already been declared. Without unconditional consent of the bankruptcy administration, the land registry had to refuse the application.