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I. - Subject to the provisions of article 1020, the purchaser, donee, heir or legatee of a work of art, books, collectors' items or documents of high artistic or historical value, is exempt from trans…
The judge may visit or have visited any minor who is the subject of a placement measure taken pursuant to articles 375-3 and 375-5 of the Civil Code.
The judge may also suspend the proceedings where one of the parties invokes a decision, which has been the subject of third-party opposition, an application for review or an appeal in cassation.
Where the representative misuses his powers to the detriment of the principal, the latter may invoke the nullity of the act performed if the third party was aware of the misuse or could not have been…
Obligations arise from juridical acts, juridical facts or the sole authority of the law.They may arise from the voluntary performance or promise of performance of a conscientious duty towards others.
Subject to the provisions of Article 472, the court may not raise of its own motion the plea that the one-year period provided for in the first paragraph of article 238 of the Civil Code.
A person who is incapable of entering into a contract may nevertheless carry out on his or her own the ordinary acts authorised by law or custom, provided that they are entered into under normal condi…
…aph of article 375-5 of the Civil Code, as well as the information measures provided for in article 1183 of this code, may only be taken, except in the case of a specially-reasoned emergency, if the h…
The offer, which may be made to a specific or unspecified person, includes the essential elements of the proposed contract and expresses the offeror's intention to be bound in the event of acceptance.…
The nullity of procedural acts may be invoked as and when they are performed; but it is covered if the person invoking it has, subsequent to the act criticised, put forward defences on the merits or o…
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