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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Easements deriving from the location of premises

Article 641

Any owner has the right to use and dispose of rainwater that falls on his land.If the use of this water or the direction given to it aggravates the natural flow easement established by article 640, co…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Easements deriving from the location of premises

Article 643

If, on leaving the land where they arise, spring waters form a watercourse with the character of public and flowing waters, the owner may not divert them from their natural course to the prejudice of…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Easements deriving from the location of premises

Article 645

If a dispute arises between the owners to whom these waters may be useful, the courts, in adjudicating, must reconcile the interests of agriculture with the respect due to property; and, in all cases,…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Easements deriving from the location of premises

Article 646

Any owner may oblige his neighbour to demarcate their adjoining properties. The demarcation is carried out at joint expense.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Opening of estates, universal title and seisin

Article 720

Inheritances are opened by death, at the last domicile of the deceased.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Easements deriving from the location of premises

Article 648

An owner who wishes to close himself off loses his right to rangeland and fallow grazing in proportion to the land he subtracts from it.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: The nature and form of the sale.

Article 1590

If the promise to sell was made with deposits each of the contracting parties is master to dispose of them, He who gave them, by losing them, And he who received them, by returning double.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: The nature and form of the sale.

Article 1585

Where goods are not sold en bloc, but by weight, count or measure, the sale is not perfected, in the sense that the things sold are at the seller's risk until they are weighed, counted or measured; bu…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: The nature and form of the sale.

Article 1589

A promise of sale is equivalent to a sale when there is mutual consent by both parties to the property and the price. If this promise applies to land already subdivided or to be subdivided, its accept…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: The nature and form of the sale.

Article 1582

A sale is an agreement by which one party undertakes to deliver a thing, and the other to pay for it. It may be made by deed or by private agreement.

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