French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Conditions of acquisitive prescription.
Article 2260
Goods or rights that are not in commerce cannot be prescribed.
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Showing 361–370 of 51993 articles for “Art. CE 24-4-2019 n° 419912 confirming CAA Nancy 22-2-2018 n° 17NC00780”
Goods or rights that are not in commerce cannot be prescribed.
Guarantees may be simple or joint and several. Joint and several liability may be stipulated between the guarantor and the principal debtor, between the guarantors, or between them all.
Unless otherwise provided by law, foreclosure periods are not governed by this Title.
The postponement of the starting point, suspension or interruption of prescription may not have the effect of extending the period of extinctive prescription beyond twenty years from the day on which…
The present possessor who proves that he possessed formerly is presumed to have possessed in the intervening time, unless proved otherwise.
A surety bond is the contract by which a guarantor undertakes to the creditor to pay the debtor's debt in the event of the latter's default. It can be taken out at the request of the principal debtor…
Judges may not, of their own motion, substitute the plea resulting from prescription.
However, the persons set out in articles 2266 and 2267 may prescribe, if the title to their possession is inverted, either by a cause coming from a third party, or by the contradiction they have oppos…
Acquisitive prescription is interrupted when the possessor of a property is deprived for more than one year of the enjoyment of that property either by the owner or even by a third party.
…150-0 A are not applicable to exchanges of securities carried out under the loi de nationalisation n° 82-155 du 11 février 1982. In the event of the sale of the securities received in exchange, the c…
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