Article 2219
Extinctive prescription is a method of extinguishing a right resulting from the inaction of its holder for a certain period of time.
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Extinctive prescription is a method of extinguishing a right resulting from the inaction of its holder for a certain period of time.
The right of ownership is imprescriptible. Subject to this reservation, actions in rem in immovable property are prescribed by thirty years from the day on which the holder of a right knew or should h…
A person who is unable to exercise his rights himself cannot waive the acquired prescription on his own.
Possession is the holding or enjoyment of a thing or right which we hold or exercise by ourselves, or by another who holds or exercises it on our behalf.
When the law subordinates the exercise of a right to the provision of security, it is said to be legal. Where the law confers on the judge the power to make the satisfaction of a claim subject to the…
…the debt, which belong to the debtor, subject to the provisions of the second paragraph of article 2293. However, the guarantor may not rely on legal or judicial measures from which the debtor benefi…
An action for liability arising from an event resulting in bodily injury, brought by the direct or indirect victim of the resulting injury, shall be barred after ten years from the date of consolidati…
Interruption wipes out the acquired limitation period. It starts a new period of the same duration as the old one.
A payment made to extinguish a debt cannot be repeated solely on the grounds that the limitation period had expired.
To complete the prescription, one may join to his possession that of his author, in whatever manner one has succeeded to him, either universally or privately, or for profit or valuable consideration.
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