Aggregated building refers to one unit building in which structurally separated several parts are used as one separate building and sectional ownership is established for each part.
Korean legal system regards the site on which a building is constru...
Aggregated building refers to one unit building in which structurally separated several parts are used as one separate building and sectional ownership is established for each part.
Korean legal system regards the site on which a building is constructed and the very building on that site as separated real estate, and the ownership of the building and its site can be separated to many different owners. However, if all the sectional owners of a building do not agree with the use of the site of a aggregate building, the sectional ownership itself can cause problems.
To cope with this situations, the government enacted 「Act on the ownership and management of aggregate buildings」in 1984, and maintaining up to now. According to this Act, several systems to prevent conflicts of sectional owners of aggregate buildings were established. But legal interpretations based on the Act failed to clarify and solve such a problems that may occur in reality.
In this regard, this thesis aims to identify several problems that may occur in reality and tries to suggest solutions with law theory between a aggregate building and its site. Of course, many precedents were accumulated since the enforcement the Act and reduced legal disputes, but some disputes described in this thesis are still on the way. The disputes raised in this thesis are as follows:
Firstly, the division between the statutory site and the site is not clear. In all books, precedents and thesis, the site of a building is referred as the statutory and the site of a aggregate building is referred as the site according to regulations.
Secondly, a suitable procedure has not been established for aggregate buildings which were constructed before the enforcement of the Act, and this causes problems. That sites should be assigned as the site of an aggregate building according to the regulations.
Thirdly, the regulations of the Act related to the right to use site and the regulations of the 『Registration of Real Estate Act』related to the right to a site are used mixedly in may theses, and are not clearly separated even in the precedents. This causes confusion.
Fourthly, it causes conflicts among owners when the share of site co-ownership is not evenly distributed.
Fifthly, if there is one building the object of sectional ownership belongs to, prohibition of partition of site is needed within the scope required for efficient use of building. In case it has no relationship with efficient use of building, prohibition of partitions of site is not needed
Sixthly, it is required to examine what is the problem in terms of procedure for registering the site of an aggregate building as well as the definition of the rights to use site and the rights to a site.
This thesis aims to present the de lege ferenda by identifying and analyzing relationship between an aggregate building and its site using law theories focused on above problems.