French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: How easements are extinguished
Article 705
Any easement is extinguished when the land to which it is owed, and the one who owes it, are united in the same hand.
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Any easement is extinguished when the land to which it is owed, and the one who owes it, are united in the same hand.
A surviving spouse who has not been divorced is entitled to inherit.
Where the deceased leaves no posterity, brothers, sisters or descendants of the latter, his father and mother succeed to him, each for half.
The closeness of kinship is established by the number of generations; each generation is called a degree.
In the absence of an heir of the first three orders, the succession devolves to the collateral relatives of the deceased other than brothers and sisters and the descendants of the latter.
Kinship is divided into two branches, depending on whether it proceeds from the father or the mother.
The easement is extinguished by non-use for thirty years.
The ownership of a treasure belongs to the person who finds it in his own land; if the treasure is found in the land of another, it belongs half to the person who discovered it, and half to the owner…
Agreements the purpose of which is to create rights or waive rights to all or part of an estate that has not yet been opened or property dependent thereon are effective only in cases where they are au…
The law does not distinguish according to the methods of establishing filiation to determine the parents called to succeed. The rights resulting from adoptive filiation are regulated under adoption.
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