Article 2316
When a guarantee of future debts terminates, the guarantor remains liable for debts arising previously, unless otherwise agreed.
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When a guarantee of future debts terminates, the guarantor remains liable for debts arising previously, unless otherwise agreed.
A guarantor of the balance of a current or deposit account may no longer be sued five years after the end of the guarantee.
The guarantor's heirs are only liable for debts arising before the death. Any clause to the contrary is deemed unwritten.
A simple extension of the term, granted by the creditor to the principal debtor, does not discharge the guarantor. When the initial term has expired, the guarantor may either pay the creditor and take…
Where subrogation to the creditor's rights can no longer be effected in his favour through the creditor's fault, the guarantor shall be discharged to the extent of the loss he suffers. Any clause to t…
Where a guarantee of future debts is for an indefinite period, the guarantor may terminate it at any time, subject to compliance with the contractually stipulated notice period or, failing that, a rea…
In the event of the dissolution of the debtor or creditor legal entity as a result of a merger, demerger or the cause provided for in the third paragraph of Article 1844-5, the guarantor remains liabl…
However, when French nationality can only have its source in filiation, it is held to be established, unless proven otherwise if the person concerned and whichever of his father and mother has been li…
The following are deputy judicial police officers: 1° Civil servants in the active services of the national police who do not meet the conditions laid down by article 20; 1° bis Volunteers serving as…
Subject to the provisions of article 20-1, the following are judicial police officers: 1° Members of the national gendarmerie, other than volunteers, who do not have the status of judicial police offi…
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