French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions.
Article 1603
He has two main obligations, to deliver and to guarantee the thing he sells.
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He has two main obligations, to deliver and to guarantee the thing he sells.
The costs of delivery shall be borne by the seller, and those of collection shall be borne by the buyer, unless otherwise agreed.
The seller is not bound to deliver the thing, if the buyer does not pay the price, and the seller has not granted him a time limit for payment.
The thing must be delivered in the state it is in at the time of the sale. Since that day, all the fruits belong to the purchaser.
If there are differing opinions, the minutes will contain the reasons for them, without it being permitted to state which opinion each expert was of.
The seller is obliged to explain clearly what he is obliging himself to. Any obscure or ambiguous agreement is construed against the seller.
…will be disturbed by an action, either mortgage or revendication, he may suspend payment of the price until the seller has put an end to the disturbance, if he prefers not to give security, or unless…
If, before the assignor or assignee had served the conveyance on the debtor, the latter had paid the assignor, he shall be validly discharged.
The buyer owes interest on the sale price until payment of the principal, in the following three cases: If it was so agreed at the time of the sale; If the thing sold and delivered produces fruit or o…
He may set up the benefit of the discussion against his seller's creditors.
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