Questão jurídica principal
Whether the contractor could claim a preferential share of the foreclosure proceeds under Art. 841 ZGB
Decisão extraída
A claim under Art. 841 ZGB requires that the property be encumbered in a recognisable way to the detriment of the specific contractor; that was not shown here.
Fundamentação extraída
The court held that equal treatment of construction creditors does not replace the statutory requirement that the defendant’s lien burden must have been recognisably detrimental to the claimant individually. The claimant sought a quantified reduction of the respondent’s proceeds for his own benefit, so individual recognisability of the prejudice was necessary.