French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: The existence of consent
Article 1129
In accordance with article 414-1, you must be of sound mind to validly consent to a contract.
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In accordance with article 414-1, you must be of sound mind to validly consent to a contract.
Any act that interrupts or suspends prescription in respect of one of the joint and several creditors benefits the other creditors.
A claim for interest made against one of the joint and several debtors shall give rise to interest on all of them.
Solidarity between creditors enables each of them to demand and receive payment of the entire claim. Payment made to one of them, who owes an account to the others, discharges the debtor in respect of…
If the debt arises from a matter that concerns only one of the joint and several debtors, that debtor alone is liable to the others. If he has paid it, he has no recourse against his co-debtors. If th…
Solidarity is legal or contractual; it cannot be presumed.
Solidarity between debtors obliges each of them to pay the entire debt. Payment by one of them discharges them all to the creditor. The creditor may request payment from the joint and several debtor o…
A creditor who receives payment from one of the joint and several debtors and grants him a remission of joint and several liability retains his claim against the others, after deduction of the share o…
The joint and several debtor sued by the creditor may raise defences common to all the co-debtors, such as nullity or resolution, and those which are personal to him. He may not raise defences that ar…
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.
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