French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Deposits in general and their various types.
Article 1916
There are two kinds of deposit: deposit proper and sequestration.
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There are two kinds of deposit: deposit proper and sequestration.
Innkeepers or hoteliers are liable, as custodians, for the clothing, luggage and miscellaneous items brought into their establishment by the traveller staying with them; the deposit of these kinds of…
Judicial sequestration is given either to a person agreed between the interested parties or to a person appointed ex officio by the judge. In either case, the person to whom the thing has been entrust…
The establishment of a judicial custodian produces reciprocal obligations between the seizing party and the custodian. The custodian must take reasonable care to preserve the effects seized. He must r…
…n who made the deposit has only the action for revendication of the thing deposited, so long as it exists in the hand of the depositary, or an action for restitution to the extent of what has turned t…
The court may order the sequestration: 1° Of movables seized from a debtor; 2° Of an immovable or movable thing, the ownership or possession of which is in dispute between two or more persons; 3° Of t…
The deposit required is, moreover, governed by all the rules previously set out.
They are liable for the theft or damage of these effects, whether the theft was committed or the damage was caused by their servants, or by third parties coming and going in the hotel.This liability i…
A necessary deposit is one that has been forced by some accident, such as fire, ruin, pillage, shipwreck or other unforeseen event.
Voluntary deposit may regularly be made only by the owner of the thing deposited, or with his express or tacit consent.
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