French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Introductory provisions
Article 1104
Contracts must be negotiated, formed and performed in good faith. This provision is of public order.
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Contracts must be negotiated, formed and performed in good faith. This provision is of public order.
Everyone is free to contract or not to contract, to choose their co-contractor and to determine the content and form of the contract within the limits set by law. Freedom of contract does not permit d…
A contract is consensual when it is formed by the mere exchange of consents whatever the mode of expression. A contract is solemn when its validity is subject to forms determined by law. A contract is…
A person who claims the performance of an obligation must prove it. Conversely, a person who claims to be discharged must justify the payment or the fact which produced the extinction of his obligatio…
Contracts on evidence are valid where they relate to rights of which the parties have free disposal. Nevertheless, they cannot contradict irrebuttable presumptions established by law, nor modify the f…
The spouses may not derogate from the duties or rights resulting for them from the marriage, or from the rules of parental authority, legal administration and guardianship.
The presumption which the law attaches to certain acts or facts by holding them to be certain exempts the person in whose favour it exists from proving it. It is said to be simple, when the law reserv…
Without prejudice to gifts which may be made in the forms and in the cases determined by this Code, the spouses may not make any agreement or renunciation the object of which would be to change the le…
The law governs conjugal association, as regards property, only in the absence of special agreements which the spouses may make as they see fit, provided that they are not contrary to good morals or t…
The option open to the survivor lapses if he has not exercised it, by notification to the heirs of the predeceased, within one month of the day on which they have given him formal notice to take sides…
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