French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Opening of estates, universal title and seisin
Article 720
Inheritances are opened by death, at the last domicile of the deceased.
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Inheritances are opened by death, at the last domicile of the deceased.
An owner who wishes to close himself off loses his right to rangeland and fallow grazing in proportion to the land he subtracts from it.
If the promise to sell was made with deposits each of the contracting parties is master to dispose of them, He who gave them, by losing them, And he who received them, by returning double.
Where goods are not sold en bloc, but by weight, count or measure, the sale is not perfected, in the sense that the things sold are at the seller's risk until they are weighed, counted or measured; bu…
A promise of sale is equivalent to a sale when there is mutual consent by both parties to the property and the price. If this promise applies to land already subdivided or to be subdivided, its accept…
A sale is an agreement by which one party undertakes to deliver a thing, and the other to pay for it. It may be made by deed or by private agreement.
A sale made on a trial basis is always presumed to be made under a suspensive condition.
It may, however, be left to the estimate of a third party; if the third party is unwilling or unable to make the estimate, there is no sale, unless the estimate is made by another third party.
It is perfected between the parties, and ownership is acquired by operation of law by the buyer as against the seller, as soon as the thing and the price have been agreed, even though the thing has no…
With regard to wine, oil, and other things that it is customary to taste before making a purchase, there is no sale until the buyer has tasted and approved them.
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