Article 551
Everything that unites with and incorporates into the thing belongs to the owner, according to the rules that will hereinafter be established.
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Everything that unites with and incorporates into the thing belongs to the owner, according to the rules that will hereinafter be established.
Islands and landings that form in non-domain watercourses belong to the riparian owners on the side where the island has formed: if the island is not formed on one side only, it belongs to the riparia…
The usufruct may be established, or purely, or on a certain day, or conditionally.
If the usufruct includes coppiced woods, the usufructuary is obliged to observe the order and proportion of the cuts, in accordance with the development or the constant use of the owners; without comp…
The same applies to the relays formed by running water which insensibly withdraws from one of its banks by bearing on the other: the owner of the uncovered bank benefits from the alluvium, without the…
Usufruct is established by law, or by the will of man.
He may take, in the woods, stiles for the vines; he may also take, from the trees, annual or periodic products; all according to the use of the country or the custom of the owners.
The owner may not, by his act, or in any manner whatsoever, prejudice the rights of the usufructuary. For his part, the usufructuary may not, on the cessation of the usufruct, claim any compensation f…
If the usufruct includes things which, without being consumed immediately, deteriorate little by little through use, such as linen, furnishings, the usufructuary has the right to use them for the purp…
A party who has brought his action before the competent civil court may not bring it before the criminal court. This is not the case unless the criminal court has been seised by the public prosecutor'…
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