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Any payment presupposes a debt; what has been received without being due is subject to restitution. Restitution is not admitted in respect of natural obligations which have been voluntarily discharged…
Novation takes place only if both the old obligation and the new obligation are valid, unless its declared object is to substitute a valid undertaking for an undertaking which is vitiated by a defect.
Novation agreed between the creditor and one of the joint and several debtors discharges the others. A novation agreed between the creditor and a guarantor does not release the principal debtor. It re…
Where the delegator is indebted to the delegatee but the delegatee has not discharged him of his debt, the delegation gives the delegatee a second debtor. Payment made by one of the two debtors discha…
The impossibility of performing the service discharges the debtor to the extent of such impossibility if it is due to force majeure and is definitive, unless the debtor has agreed to take responsibili…
Joint and several debtors are jointly and severally liable for the non-performance of the obligation. The onus is definitively on those to whom the non-performance is attributable.
The judicial administration of evidence and disputes relating thereto are governed by the code of civil procedure.
The written word consists of a sequence of letters, characters, numbers or any other signs or symbols with an intelligible meaning, whatever their medium.
A contest between successive assignees of a claim is resolved in favour of the first in date; he has recourse against the person to whom the debtor would have made a payment.
The debtor is put on notice to pay either by a summons or an act providing sufficient interpellation, or, if the contract so provides, by the mere due date of the obligation.
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