Article 640
The lower lands are subject to those that are higher to receive the water that flows naturally from them without the hand of man having contributed to it. The lower owner may not raise a dyke that pre…
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The lower lands are subject to those that are higher to receive the water that flows naturally from them without the hand of man having contributed to it. The lower owner may not raise a dyke that pre…
In towns and the countryside, any wall used to separate buildings up to the dwelling, or between courtyards and gardens, and even between enclosures in the fields, is presumed to be a party wall if th…
Trees, shrubs and bushes may only be planted close to the boundary of the neighbouring property at the distance prescribed by the specific regulations currently in force, or by constant and recognised…
Easements are either continuous or discontinuous. Continuous servitudes are those whose use is or can be continuous without needing the actual act of man: such are water pipes, sewers, views and the l…
Continuous servitudes which are not apparent, and discontinuous servitudes which are apparent or not apparent, can only be established by title. Even immemorial possession is not sufficient to establi…
The destination of the father of the family is equivalent to title in respect of continuous and apparent easements.
In the very case where the owner of the land subject to the easement is charged by the title to make at his own expense the works necessary for the use or conservation of the easement, he may always f…
One of the neighbours may not, without the consent of the other, make any window or opening in the party wall, in any manner whatsoever, even with fixed glass.
The owner of an unpartitioned wall, immediately adjoining the inheritance of another, may make in that wall days or windows with meshed iron and dead glass. Such windows shall be fitted with an iron l…
No person may have straight views or windows of appearance, nor balconies or other similar projections on the enclosed or unenclosed inheritance of his neighbour, unless there is a distance of ninetee…
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