Article 1385-1
It may only be referred on a fact that is personal to the party to whom it is referred.It may be referred by that party, unless the fact that is the subject of it is purely personal to him.
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It may only be referred on a fact that is personal to the party to whom it is referred.It may be referred by that party, unless the fact that is the subject of it is purely personal to him.
A debtor who has not made his choice known must, if one of the performances becomes impossible, perform one of the others.
The creditor may also act in his own name to have acts performed by his debtor in fraud of his rights declared unenforceable against him, provided that he establishes, in the case of an act for valuab…
In cases determined by law, the creditor may act directly in payment of his claim against a debtor of his debtor.
The judge may, taking into account the situation of the debtor and considering the needs of the creditor, defer or stagger, up to a maximum of two years, the payment of the sums due.By special reasone…
Where the obligation relates to another object, the debtor is discharged if the obstruction has not ceased within two months of the formal notice..
Payment costs are to be borne by the debtor.
Where there is joint and several liability between several debtors or between several creditors, and the confusion concerns only one of them, extinction takes place, with regard to the others, only fo…
A person who received the thing in good faith and sold it owes only the price of the sale.If he received it in bad faith, he owes its value on the day of restitution where it is greater than the price…
Restitutions owed by an unemancipated minor or a protected adult of full age are reduced to the amount of the benefit he or she derived from the annulled deed.
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