French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions.
Article 2231
Interruption wipes out the acquired limitation period. It starts a new period of the same duration as the old one.
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Interruption wipes out the acquired limitation period. It starts a new period of the same duration as the old one.
The suspension of the limitation period temporarily halts its course without erasing the period that has already run.
A person may act as surety for the creditor on behalf of the person who guaranteed the principal debtor.
The prescription is counted in days, not hours.
Guarantees may be simple or joint and several. Joint and several liability may be stipulated between the guarantor and the principal debtor, between the guarantors, or between them all.
…the right arose. The first paragraph does not apply in the cases referred to in articles 2226, 2226-1, 2227, 2233 and 2236, in the first paragraph of article 2241 and to l'article 2244. Nor does it ap…
…ault. It can be taken out at the request of the principal debtor or without any request on his part and even without his knowledge.
The mortgage is indivisible, notwithstanding the division of the debt: the co-debtor who owns the mortgaged immovable is, on that immovable, held for the whole; each of the creditors has the whole imm…
A mortgage is the assignment of a property as security for an obligation without dispossessing the person who sets it up.
Mortgages are only granted in the cases and according to the forms authorised by law.
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