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First Chamber of the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court (STF) removes the possibility of pledge the family property of the guarantor in the commercial lease

By majority of votes, the Justices filed the Extraordinary Appeal (RE) 605709, in which the applicant claimed that the sale of his house - located in Campo Belo (São Paulo) - at an auction held in 2002, was null.

According to the appellant, the pledge of his property would be illegal for being it his only property and he is the responsible for the family's livelihood. Thus, he argued that, in the hypothesis, the restitution of his property would assure the protection of the fundamental and social right to adequate housing.

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