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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Community assets

Article 1405

Property which the spouses owned or possessed on the day of the celebration of the marriage, or which they acquire during the marriage by succession, gift or legacy, remains separate. The gift may sti…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Administration of community and private property.

Article 1432

When one of the spouses takes over the management of the other's own property, with the other's knowledge, and nevertheless without opposition on his part, he is deemed to have received a tacit mandat…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Community liabilities

Article 1412

Reward is due to the community that has discharged a spouse's personal debt.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Administration of community and private property.

Article 1427

If one of the spouses has exceeded his or her powers over the community property, the other, unless he or she has ratified the act, may apply for its annulment. The action for annulment is open to the…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Community assets

Article 1406

Property acquired as an accessory to a proprietary property, as well as new securities and other increases attached to proprietary securities, form proprietary property, subject to recompense if appli…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Administration of community and private property.

Article 1435

If the use or reinvestment is made in advance, the property acquired is the community's own, provided that the sums expected from the community's own assets are paid to the community within five years…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Community of movables and acquests.

Article 1499

Under this regime, in addition to the debts that would form part of it under the legal regime, a fraction of the debts of which the spouses were already burdened when they married, or of which they ar…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Community liabilities

Article 1418

Where a debt has entered the community on the part of only one of the spouses, it may not be pursued against the other's own property. If there is joint and several liability, the debt is deemed to ha…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Administration of community and private property.

Article 1422

The spouses may not, one without the other, dispose of community property inter vivos, gratuitously. Nor may they, one without the other, assign any of that property to guarantee the debt of a third p…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Administration of community and private property.

Article 1429

If one of the spouses is permanently unable to express his or her will, or if he or she jeopardises the interests of the family, either by allowing his or her own property to wither, or by dissipating…

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