French Civil CodeIn force
Sub-section 2: Amicable partition.
Article 838
Amicable partition may be total or partial. It is partial when it leaves undivided ownership of certain property or persons.
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Amicable partition may be total or partial. It is partial when it leaves undivided ownership of certain property or persons.
It cannot be exercised where the claimant creditor has waived it.
…more than five years. It may be renewed, in the case provided for in the first paragraph of Article 822, until the youngest of the descendants reaches the age of majority and, in the case provided for…
…ided co-owner is in default, without nevertheless being in one of the cases provided for in article 836, he may, at the request of a co-partitioner, be given formal notice, by extrajudicial act, to be…
Similarly, no report is due for associations made without fraud between the deceased and one of his heirs, where the conditions have been settled by an authenticated deed.
The partition may be annulled on the grounds of violence or fraud. It may also be annulled on the grounds of error, if the error concerned the existence or the proportion of the rights of the co-share…
In the formation and composition of lots, every effort shall be made to avoid dividing economic units and other sets of goods, the splitting of which would lead to depreciation.
The joint heirs contribute among themselves to the payment of the debts and charges of the estate, each in proportion to what he takes into it.
Each of the co-heirs is personally obliged, in proportion to his emolument, to compensate the evicted co-heir for the loss he has suffered, valued on the day of the eviction. If one of the co-heirs be…
The simple omission of an undivided asset gives rise to a supplementary division relating to that asset.
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