Questão jurídica principal
Whether art. 261 CO transfers to the building purchaser an obligation in a commerce-transfer agreement to repay goodwill paid by the tenant if the landlord terminates the lease.
Decisão extraída
No. Art. 261 CO transfers the lease relationship, but not an ancillary repayment obligation arising from the separate commerce-transfer agreement.
Fundamentação extraída
The goodwill repayment obligation belongs to the contractual relations between buyer and seller of the business, not to the lease itself. The commerce-transfer agreement was a simple contract executed in 1991, whereas only the lease passed to the purchaser of the property.