French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Rights of the usufructuary
Article 584
Civil fruits are house rents, interest on sums due, arrears on annuities. Farm lease prices are also classed as civil fruits.
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Civil fruits are house rents, interest on sums due, arrears on annuities. Farm lease prices are also classed as civil fruits.
If the usufruct includes things that cannot be used without being consumed, such as money, grain, liquor, the usufructuary has the right to use them, but on condition that, at the end of the usufruct,…
In all other cases, the usufructuary may not touch the tall trees: he may only use, to make the repairs for which he is liable, trees uprooted or broken by accident; he may even, for this purpose, hav…
Fruit trees that die, and even those that are uprooted or broken by accident, belong to the usufructuary, with the obligation to replace them with others.
One may have over the property, either a right of ownership, or a mere right of enjoyment, or only land services to claim.
Everything that unites with and incorporates into the thing belongs to the owner, according to the rules that will hereinafter be established.
The landings and accretions that successively and imperceptibly form at the riparian bottoms of a watercourse are called "alluvium".Alluvium benefits the riparian owner, whether the watercourse is sta…
Islands and landings that form in non-domain watercourses belong to the riparian owners on the side where the island has formed: if the island is not formed on one side only, it belongs to the riparia…
The usufruct may be established, or purely, or on a certain day, or conditionally.
If the usufruct includes coppiced woods, the usufructuary is obliged to observe the order and proportion of the cuts, in accordance with the development or the constant use of the owners; without comp…
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