French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions
Article 2385
A mortgage is the assignment of a property as security for an obligation without dispossessing the person who sets it up.
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A mortgage is the assignment of a property as security for an obligation without dispossessing the person who sets it up.
For the purposes of their registration, mortgages on the lots of an immovable subject to the status of co-ownership are deemed not to encumber the share of the common parts included in these lots. How…
Subrogations to mortgages, discharges, reductions, cessions of anteriority and transfers that have been granted, extensions of time limits, changes of domicile and, in general, all changes, particular…
The third-party purchaser who has paid the mortgage debt, or suffered the seizure of the mortgaged property, has a recourse in warranty under the conditions of ordinary law and a subrogatory recourse…
When a guarantee of future debts terminates, the guarantor remains liable for debts arising previously, unless otherwise agreed.
A security interest is the allocation of an asset or a group of assets, present or future, to the preferential or exclusive payment of the creditor.
The object of the pledge may be movable fixed assets by destination. The order of preference between the mortgagee and the pledgee is determined in accordance with Article 2419.
Where the non-possessory pledge relates to fungible things, the pledgor may, unless otherwise agreed, dispose of them on condition that he replaces them with the same quantity of equivalent things.
To be enforceable against the debtor of the pledged claim, the pledge of the claim must be notified to him or the debtor must intervene in the deed. Failing this, only the pledgor validly receives pay…
Securities on immovable property include liens, pledges on immovable property and mortgages. Ownership of the property may also be retained or assigned as security.
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