Conditional Payment Guarantees in Rights Sale Contract

The case concerned a dispute arising from a contract where one party agreed to sell certain rights to another, with the payment structured as a series of installments, some of which were conditional upon the realization of specific future profits from the acquired rights; the buyer subsequently sought to compel the seller to provide guarantees for the payment of the remaining, conditional installments upon the seller's claim that the buyer had failed to properly exploit the acquired rights. The court partially quashed the lower court's decision, holding that the obligation to provide guarantees only concerned the installments that were certain and immediately due, and not those whose payment remained contingent upon future, uncertain events, as the contractual nature of the obligation to pay was not altered by the uncertain timing of that payment.