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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Views onto a neighbour's property

Article 675

One of the neighbours may not, without the consent of the other, make any window or opening in the party wall, in any manner whatsoever, even with fixed glass.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Views onto a neighbour's property

Article 676

The owner of an unpartitioned wall, immediately adjoining the inheritance of another, may make in that wall days or windows with meshed iron and dead glass. Such windows shall be fitted with an iron l…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Views onto a neighbour's property

Article 678

No person may have straight views or windows of appearance, nor balconies or other similar projections on the enclosed or unenclosed inheritance of his neighbour, unless there is a distance of ninetee…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Party walls and ditches

Article 669

As long as the hedge is shared, the products belong to the owners in equal shares.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Rights of the owner of the land to which the easement is owed

Article 698

These works shall be at its expense, and not at the expense of the owner of the land subject to the easement, unless the title establishing the easement states otherwise.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter II: Easements established by law

Article 652

Part of these obligations is regulated by the laws on rural policing; The others relate to the party wall and ditch, where there is a need for a counter-wall, views onto the neighbour's property, roof…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Party walls and ditches

Article 662

One of the neighbours may not make any indentation in the body of a party wall, or apply or support any work thereon without the consent of the other, or without having, on his refusal, caused to be s…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Party walls and ditches

Article 672

The neighbour may demand that trees, shrubs and bushes, planted at a distance less than the legal distance, be uprooted or reduced to the height determined in the previous article, unless there is tit…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: The various types of easement that may be established over property

Article 686

Owners are permitted to establish on their properties, or in favour of their properties, such easements as they see fit, provided nevertheless that the services established are imposed neither on the…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: How easements are established

Article 694

If the owner of two hereditaments between which there is an apparent sign of an easement, disposes of one of the hereditaments without the contract containing any agreement relating to the easement, i…

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