696. A sheriff’s sale discharges the immovable from all real rights not mentioned in the conditions of sale except:(1) servitudes;
(2) (paragraph repealed);
(3) rights of emphyteusis, the rights necessary for the exercise of superficies and rights of substitution not yet open, except when it appears in the record of the case that there exists a prior or preferable claim;
(4) (paragraph replaced);
(5) the administrative encumbrance affecting a low-rental housing immovable.
A sheriff’s sale does not affect the legal hypothec securing the rights of municipalities, school boards or the Comité de gestion de la taxe scolaire de l’île de Montréal in respect of instalments not yet due of special taxes, the payment of which is spread over a certain number of years; such instalments do not become due by reason of the sale of the immovable and are not collocated, but remain payable according to the terms of their imposition.
1965 (1st sess.), c. 80, a. 696; 1988, c. 84, s. 554; 1991, c. 62, s. 6; 1992, c. 57, s. 342; 1996, c. 5, s. 42; 1999, c. 40, s. 56; 2002, c. 75, s. 33.