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French Civil CodeIn force
Sub-section 1: Method of registration of mortgages

Article 2429

…the Consumer Code, or if the mortgage is accompanied by a reloading clause provided for in Article 2416, the term of the registration is at most fifty years on the day of the formality. If the due da…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Preferential and resale rights

Article 2457

The third party purchaser must compensate the mortgagee for the loss resulting from any deterioration that has reduced the value of the property through his own act or fault. However, he may obtain re…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Preferential and resale rights

Article 2458

If the sale price exceeds the mortgage debt, the difference is for the third-party purchaser, except for the rights of his creditors registered on the property.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Purge

Article 2461

The property is, ipso jure, purged of the droit de suite attached to the mortgage in the cases provided for by law, in particular the sale on seizure of property, expropriation for public utility or t…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 5: Classification of mortgages

Article 2420

Creditors holding the same rechargeable mortgage benefit from the rank of the registration of the agreement constituting the security. However, in their relations with each other, the date of publicat…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Sub-section 1: Method of registration of mortgages

Article 2426

…service responsible for land registration shall make a note, in the register prescribed by Article 2447 below, of the deposit of the slips, and shall hand to the applicant both the title or the copy…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Preferential and resale rights

Article 2450

…is in competition with other mortgage creditors, he is paid in the rank assigned to him by articles 2418 to 2420.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Sub-section 1: Method of registration of mortgages

Article 2424

For the purposes of their registration, mortgages on the lots of an immovable subject to the status of co-ownership are deemed not to encumber the share of the common parts included in these lots. How…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Sub-section 1: Method of registration of mortgages

Article 2425

…t to restitution, relating to mortgage claims.Agreements that must be published pursuant to article 2416 shall be published in the same form.The deeds and court decisions recording these various agree…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Preferential and resale rights

Article 2460

The third-party purchaser who has paid the mortgage debt, or suffered the seizure of the mortgaged property, has a recourse in warranty under the conditions of ordinary law and a subrogatory recourse…

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