A Study of the Validity of the Sale of an Uncertain Unit of a Fungible Property (A Jurisprudential and Legal Analysis)

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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Qom, Qom, Iran.

Abstract

It is possible to sell a part of a fungible property in several ways, including in bulk and in common. However, another form of this type of sale, called the sale of " uncertain unit" has been studied in jurisprudence books, which has not been given much attention in the Persian legal literature. In this type of sale, an unspecified individual from the individuals of a whole is sold after dividing it into several independent individuals without its ratio to the whole being in the form of a common fraction, so that it has the rules of common sale. Also, since the goods is partial and not general according to the assumption, it differs from the usual general cases in the definite where the seller is general. In fact, in cases where the sale takes place in a collective or general form, the seller is hesitant, but from a jurisprudential point of view, these two types of seller are not referred to as "hesitant person". According to the popular opinion and even the consensus of jurists, the sale of a "hesitant person" is invalid. On the other hand, another opinion that has been approved by some jurists is the correctness of this type of sale and its carrying over to the whole of a certain state. This research, using analytical methods and library tools, seeks to investigate this issue in jurisprudential works and confirm the theory that supports the validity of such a transaction.

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Fiqh
Volume 30, Issue 0
September 2023
Pages 70-97

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  • Receive Date: 12 March 2023
  • Revise Date: 14 September 2023
  • Accept Date: 24 October 2023

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