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Showing 141–150 of 3398 articles for “Art. 19 déc. 2012”
The mandatary is liable for the person he has substituted in the management: 1° when he has not received the power to substitute anyone; 2° when this power has been conferred on him without the design…
Receipt of capital given without reservation of interest shall presume payment thereof and operate discharge.
He must not seek to know what things have been deposited with him if they have been entrusted to him in a closed safe or in a sealed envelope.
If the contract does not designate the place of restitution, it must be made in the same place as the deposit.
Sequestration may apply not only to household effects, but even to immovable property.
Any life annuity contract created on the life of a person who was dead on the day of the contract has no effect.
An agent who has given the party with whom he contracts in that capacity sufficient knowledge of his powers is not bound by any guarantee for what has been done beyond that, if he has not personally s…
Interest may be stipulated in return for a capital sum that the lender refrains from demanding.In this case, the loan is known as "annuitisation".
The rules concerning life annuities are set out in the section entitled "Random contracts".
The deposit must be returned to the depositor as soon as he claims it, even if the contract has fixed a specific time limit for its return; unless there is, in the hands of the depositary, an attachme…
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