Art. 3284.Order; Hearing

Article 3284 is where a private sale gets court approval. If no one has filed a timely opposition and the court views the sale as serving the succession's best interests, the court issues an order authorizing it and fixes the minimum price the representative must accept. That price does not have to match the appraised value exactly -- the court can set it at the appraisal, as a fraction of it, above it, or at no less than that figure, giving the court room to fit the price to the circumstances of the particular sale.

The article also closes the loop opened in Article 3281. When the representative has already signed an agreement to sell subject to the suspensive condition of court approval, and the price and conditions the court fixes match what the agreement already provided, the court's order satisfies that condition. The agreement, once merely conditional, becomes enforceable between the parties who signed it.

Paragraph B makes clear that none of this narrows the representative's ordinary duties in administering the succession; the sale-approval process is an additional layer of oversight, not a substitute for the representative's general responsibilities. And if someone does file an opposition, Paragraph C sends it down a fast track: the court tries it as a summary proceeding rather than a full ordinary lawsuit, resolving the dispute quickly so the sale, or the decision not to allow it, is not left hanging.

Paragraph D is a piece of historical housekeeping. It made the article's requirements retroactive to January 1, 1961, and validated sales completed since that date that already complied with the article's terms, cleaning up any doubt about sales that predated later amendments.