French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Usufruct
Article 581
It may be established on any kind of movable or immovable property.
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It may be established on any kind of movable or immovable property.
If a watercourse, whether state-owned or not, removes by a sudden force a considerable and recognisable part of a riparian field, and carries it to a lower field or to the opposite bank, the owner of…
Natural fruits are those which are the spontaneous product of the earth. The product and growth of animals are also natural fruits. The industrial fruits of a fund are those obtained by cultivation.
The usufructuary still benefits, always in accordance with the times and usage of the former owners, from the parts of the high forest woods that have been set aside for regulated felling, whether the…
Where the plantations, constructions and works have been made by a third party and with materials belonging to the latter, the owner of the land has the right, subject to the provisions of paragraph 4…
If a state-owned watercourse forms a new course by abandoning its old bed, the riparian owners may acquire ownership of this old bed, each in his or her own right, up to a line assumed to be drawn thr…
If the material belonging to one of the owners were far superior to the other in quantity and price, in that case the owner of the material superior in value could reclaim the thing arising from the m…
Natural and industrial fruits, hanging by branches or roots at the time when the usufruct is opened, belong to the usufructuary.Those which are in the same state at the time when the usufruct ends bel…
The possessor is in good faith when he possesses as owner, by virtue of a title transferring ownership of which he is unaware of the defects. He ceases to be in good faith from the moment these defect…
The usufructuary has the right to enjoy any kind of fruit, whether natural, industrial or civil, that the object of which he has usufruct may produce.
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