French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Delivery.
Article 1616
The seller is obliged to deliver the capacity as set out in the contract, subject to the modifications hereinafter expressed.
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The seller is obliged to deliver the capacity as set out in the contract, subject to the modifications hereinafter expressed.
But if the purchaser has made a profit from the damage done by him, the seller is entitled to withhold from the price a sum equal to that profit.
Rescission for lesion does not take place in favour of the buyer.
If at the time of the sale the thing sold had perished in its entirety, the sale would be void. If only part of the thing has perished, it is at the option of the purchaser to abandon the sale, or to…
Delivery must be made at the place where, at the time of the sale, the thing which was the subject of the sale was, unless otherwise agreed.
The question of whether the loss or deterioration of the thing sold before delivery should fall on the seller or the purchaser shall be judged according to the rules prescribed under the heading "Cont…
It does not take place in sales made by judicial authority.
The seller with a repurchase agreement may exercise his action against a second purchaser, even if the repurchase option was not declared in the second contract.
If the sale of an inheritance belonging to several has not been made jointly and of the whole inheritance together, and each has sold only the share which he had in it, they may separately exercise th…
The three experts will be appointed ex officio, unless the parties have agreed to appoint all three jointly.
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