French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions
Article 2386
Mortgages are only granted in the cases and according to the forms authorised by law.
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Mortgages are only granted in the cases and according to the forms authorised by law.
Within one month of receipt, the guarantor shall, at its own expense, communicate to the sub-guarantor natural person the information it has received pursuant to articles 2302 and 2303.
The reservation of ownership is agreed in writing.
Reserved ownership of a fungible asset may be exercised, up to the amount of the outstanding claim, over assets of the same nature and quality held by the debtor or on his behalf.
…he publication made of it.It is also enforceable against third parties by the dispossession in the hands of the creditor or an agreed third party of the property which is the subject of it or of the d…
Where the same asset is the subject of several successive non-possessory pledges, the ranking of the creditors is governed by the order of their registration. Where an asset given as a non-possessory…
…delegations drawn up under private signatures, even though the security interest must be created by an authenticated deed.
…of the pledged asset is the creditor of the secured debt, he shall receive the fruits of that asset and set them off against the interest or, failing that, against the principal of the debt.
The incorporation of an item of movable property subject to a retention of title into another item of property does not preclude the creditor's rights where those items of property can be separated wi…
The creditor may, without losing possession, lease the property either to a third party or to the debtor himself.
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