Buyer's Attempted Rescission for Failure to Fulfill Secondary Contractual Obligation Upheld

The dispute arose from a contract involving the sale of a property where the buyer, having taken possession and paid part of the price, later sought to rescind the sale, alleging that the seller had not fulfilled a secondary obligation concerning the transfer of administrative authorizations necessary for the intended use of the property, despite the main contract being executed. The court ruled for the seller, holding that while failure to fulfill a secondary obligation can sometimes justify rescission, the request for rescission was improperly granted because the buyer had continued to benefit from the property and had not demonstrated that the failure to obtain the administrative authorizations rendered the principal purpose of the sale impossible or substantially deprived them of the agreed-upon benefit, thus affirming that rescission is generally reserved for breaches of the essential contractual obligations.