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

Article 1500

The debts for which the community is liable in consideration of the property it receives are definitively its responsibility.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Joint administration clause.

Article 1503

The spouses may agree that they will jointly administer the community. In this case, acts of administration and disposal of community property are made under the joint signature of both spouses and th…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: Precipitation.

Article 1518

When the community is dissolved during the lifetime of the spouses, there is no need to issue the precipitate; but the spouse in whose favour it has been stipulated retains his rights for the event of…

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Section 5 : Stipulation of unequal shares.

Article 1525

The stipulation of unequal shares and the full allocation clause are not deemed to be donations, either in substance or in form, but simply marriage agreements and agreements between partners. Unless…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Joint ownership of acquests.

Article 1572

The final patrimony includes all property belonging to the spouse on the day the matrimonial property regime is dissolved, including, where applicable, that which he or she would have disposed of mort…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Joint ownership of acquests.

Article 1579

If the application of the valuation rules set out in articles 1571 and 1574 above should lead to a result manifestly contrary to equity, the court may derogate from it at the request of one of the spo…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter II: Who may buy or sell.

Article 1597

Judges, their deputies, magistrates acting as public prosecutors, court clerks, bailiffs, lawyers, unofficial defenders and notaries, may not become assignees of litigious suits, rights and actions wh…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter III: Things that can be sold.

Article 1599

The sale of someone else's thing is void: it may give rise to damages where the buyer was unaware that the thing belonged to someone else.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 5 : Stipulation of unequal shares.

Article 1524

The attribution of the entire community can only be agreed for the event of survival, either in favour of a designated spouse or in favour of whoever survives. The spouse who retains the entire commun…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Joint ownership of acquests.

Article 1581

In stipulating participation in acquests, the spouses may adopt any clauses not contrary to articles 1387, 1388 and 1389. In particular, they may agree to an unequal sharing clause, or stipulate that…

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