Key legal question
Whether the hotel management agreement qualified as a lease/affermage opposable to purchasers under Art. 261 and 290 CO.
Extracted holding
The agreement was not a lease/affermage; the contract's center of gravity was the hotel business run at the owner's risk, so no lease-type transfer rule applied after the forced sale.
Extracted reasoning
The court held that mixed-contract classification depends on the contract's dominant element for the issue at hand. Here the owner bore the operating risk, employed the staff, kept the accounts, and the defendants only managed the hotel for fees. The agreement therefore centered on business management, not tenancy of the premises.