French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Joint and several liability
Article 1314
A claim for interest made against one of the joint and several debtors shall give rise to interest on all of them.
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A claim for interest made against one of the joint and several debtors shall give rise to interest on all of them.
The assignment of a claim must be recorded in writing, failing which it will be null and void.
Where the delegating party is a creditor of the delegatee, its claim is extinguished only by the performance of the delegatee's obligation to the delegatee and in due proportion.
A deed under private signature evidencing a synallagmatic contract is only evidence if it has been drawn up in as many originals as there are parties with a distinct interest, unless the parties have…
A private deed in which one party undertakes to pay another a sum of money or to deliver a fungible good is only evidence if it includes the signature of the party making the undertaking and a stateme…
The obligation is cumulative when it covers several services and only the performance of all of them discharges the debtor.
Solidarity between creditors enables each of them to demand and receive payment of the entire claim. Payment made to one of them, who owes an account to the others, discharges the debtor in respect of…
The creditor is entitled to the performance of the obligation; he may compel the debtor to do so under the conditions laid down by law.
The presumption which the law attaches to certain acts or facts by holding them to be certain exempts the person in whose favour it exists from proving it. It is said to be simple, when the law reserv…
An exception is made to the rules set out in the previous article if it is materially or morally impossible to obtain a writing, if it is customary not to draw up a writing, or if the writing has been…
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