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Showing 31–40 of 29517 articles for “Art. 16 mai 1962”
Proof of injury may be admitted only by judgment, and only in cases where the facts asserted are sufficiently likely and serious enough to give rise to a presumption of injury.
Independently of the causes of nullity or rescission already explained in this title, and of those common to all agreements, the contract of sale may be rescinded by the exercise of the repurchase opt…
Such proof may be made only by a report of three experts, who shall be required to draw up a single joint report, and to form a single opinion by a plurality of votes.
If several persons have sold jointly, and by a single contract, an inheritance common to them, each may exercise the action for redemption only in respect of the share which he had in it.
The assignee is seized as against third parties only by service of the conveyance made on the debtor. Nevertheless, the assignee may also be seized by acceptance of the conveyance made by the debtor i…
The judge in charge of carrying out an investigative measure or supervising its execution may order such other investigative measure as would make it appropriate to carry out the one already prescribe…
The purchaser with a pact of redemption exercises all the rights of his seller; he may prescribe both against the true master and against those who claim rights or mortgages on the thing sold.
If the seller fails to make delivery within the time agreed between the parties, the purchaser may, at his option, request that the sale be rescinded, or that he be given possession, if the delay is d…
The same applies if a person who has sold an inheritance alone has left several heirs. Each of these co-heirs may only use the redemption option for the share he takes in the inheritance.
Direct taxes and assimilated taxes are collected by virtue of either rolls made enforceable by order of the director general of public finance or the prefect, or notices of assessment.For the applicat…
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