Sale and latent defect
The purchaser, who has the sole choice of actions provided for by law in the event of the seller's warranty for latent defects being called into play, may accept that the seller proceeds, by repairing the property at his own expense, to a repair in kind which removes the defect and re-establishes the contractual equilibrium intended by the parties. This solution cannot be extended to the repair of the latent defect by a third party, which, having no effect on the contractual relations between the buyer and the seller, cannot remove the estimatory action allowing the buyer to obtain the
