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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Redemption option.

Article 1673

The seller who makes use of the repurchase agreement must reimburse not only the principal price, but also the expenses and fair costs of the sale, the necessary repairs, and those which have increase…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Redemption option.

Article 1660

The buyback option may not be stipulated for a term exceeding five years. If it has been stipulated for a longer term, it is reduced to that term.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Community assets

Article 1403

Each spouse retains full ownership of his or her own property.The community is entitled only to fruits collected and not consumed. But recompense may be due to it, on dissolution of the community, for…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Community assets

Article 1404

Forming private property by their nature, even if they were acquired during the marriage, are clothing and linen for the personal use of one of the spouses, actions for compensation for bodily or mora…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Redemption option.

Article 1662

If the seller fails to exercise his action for redemption within the prescribed period, the purchaser remains the irrevocable owner.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Redemption option.

Article 1668

If several persons have sold jointly, and by a single contract, an inheritance common to them, each may exercise the action for redemption only in respect of the share which he had in it.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Redemption option.

Article 1659

The repurchase option is a pact by which the seller reserves the right to take back the thing sold, in return for the return of the principal price and the reimbursement referred to in article 1673.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Redemption option.

Article 1665

The purchaser with a pact of redemption exercises all the rights of his seller; he may prescribe both against the true master and against those who claim rights or mortgages on the thing sold.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Community assets

Article 1402

All property, whether movable or immovable, is deemed to be acquired by the community unless it is proved that it belongs to one of the spouses by application of a provision of the law. If the propert…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Redemption option.

Article 1670

But, in the case of the two preceding articles, the purchaser may require all the co-sellers or all the co-heirs to be put in issue, in order to conciliate among themselves for the resumption of the w…

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