Article 1347
Compensation is the simultaneous extinction of reciprocal obligations between two persons.It takes place, subject to being invoked, in due proportion, on the date when its conditions are met.
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Compensation is the simultaneous extinction of reciprocal obligations between two persons.It takes place, subject to being invoked, in due proportion, on the date when its conditions are met.
The debtor is put on notice to pay either by a summons or an act providing sufficient interpellation, or, if the contract so provides, by the mere due date of the obligation.
Where the creditor, on the due date and without legitimate cause, refuses to receive the payment due to him or prevents it by his act, the debtor may give him formal notice to accept or allow performa…
Subrogation takes place by operation of law alone in favour of the person who, having a legitimate interest therein, pays whenever his payment discharges from liability to the creditor the person on w…
…associated with the issue of the copy of the inventory made pursuant to the third paragraph of article 809-2 of the Civil Code are payable by the creditor or legatee who requests them.
Information delivered to creditors or legatees of the existence of a new advertisement is made by simple letter.
Where the sale of the property belonging to the estate is not carried out in the manner provided for by the General Code on the Ownership of Public Persons for the disposal, for valuable consideration…
The advertising provided for in articles 809-1, 809-2, 810-5 and 810-7 of the Civil Code give rise to the insertion of a notice in a legal gazette circulated within the jurisdiction of the competent c…
The curator's mission is set by the curatorship order. The curator may only deliver the particular or universal legacies granted by the deceased at the end of the period mentioned in article 810-1 of…
Where an out-of-court sale is envisaged, the curator shall inform the creditors of the estate who have declared themselves of this by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt. A creditor's re…
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