Short answer. Yes, generally. The right of legal redemption cannot be exercised except within thirty days from written notice — but that thirty-day clock only starts running once you actually receive written notice of the sale, so without it, the period has not yet begun and your right to redeem generally remains open.

What the law says

The right of legal pre-emption or redemption shall not be exercised except within thirty days from the notice in writing by the prospective vendor, or by the vendor, as the case may be.

Civil Code, Article 1623 — Thirty-Day Period; Written Notice. Read the full provision →

The thirty-day clock is triggered by written notice

The statute ties the thirty-day period specifically to a trigger event: the notice in writing from the vendor. Without that written notice actually being given, the countdown described in this article does not begin. Since you say no written notice was sent to you, the thirty-day period this article speaks of has not yet started running against you, and your right to redeem is not automatically cut off just because more than thirty days have passed since the sale.

The recording requirement backs this up

The article reinforces the importance of written notice by conditioning registration itself on it: the deed of sale shall not be recorded in the Registry of Property unless it is accompanied by an affidavit of the vendor stating that written notice was given to all possible redemptioners. This mechanism exists precisely so that a sale cannot be registered — and effectively made to look settled — while co-owners who were entitled to redeem were never actually informed in writing.

Co-owners' redemption right excludes adjoining owners

The same article also clarifies the relationship between different possible redemptioners: the right of redemption belonging to co-owners excludes that of adjoining owners. If you are a co-owner of the property your co-owner sold a share of, your redemption right as a co-owner takes precedence, and an adjoining landowner cannot displace your claim to redeem that particular share simply because the properties happen to sit next to each other.

What this means practically for your situation

Because the written notice requirement was not met, you are not necessarily barred simply by the passage of thirty days from the actual sale. The relevant thirty days runs from written notice, not from the sale itself, so the absence of proper written notice generally works in your favor here — though whether you learned of the sale through some other means, and how that might factor in, is a separate question this provision does not directly address.

Cases citing this provision

These Supreme Court decisions cite the provision above. We list them so you can read them yourself; the summaries of what each decided are not ours to give.

Related provisions

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