Article 2337
The pledge is enforceable against third parties by the 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…
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The pledge is enforceable against third parties by the 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…
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…
A security interest may be created over the assets of a legal person governed by private law by virtue of powers resulting from deliberations or delegations drawn up under private signatures, even tho…
Unless otherwise agreed, where the holder 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, ag…
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.
A mortgage may be legal, judicial or conventional.
The guarantor's heirs are only liable for debts arising before the death. Any clause to the contrary is deemed unwritten.
The pledge is published by an entry in a special register, the terms of which are regulated by decree in the Conseil d'Etat.Unless it is subject to article 2342, a pledge relating to a registered land…
If more has been paid to the pledgee than the secured debt, the pledgee owes the difference to the settlor.
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