French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General rules
Article 1347-4
If there are several compensable debts, the rules for charging payments are transposable.
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If there are several compensable debts, the rules for charging payments are transposable.
Payment costs are to be borne by the debtor.
The grace period does not preclude compensation.
A debtor who has taken unreserved note of the assignment of the claim may not set up against the assignee the set-off that he could have set up against the assignor.
Payment can be proven by any means.
A payment made in good faith to an apparent creditor is valid.
Payment must be made to the creditor or to the person designated to receive it.Payment made to a person who was not entitled to receive it is nevertheless valid if the creditor ratifies it or if he ha…
The surety may set off what the creditor owes to the principal debtor. A joint and several debtor may rely on set-off of what the creditor owes to one of his co-obligors to have the latter's divided s…
The debtor of an obligation to deliver a certain body is discharged by its delivery to the creditor in the same condition, unless he proves, in the case of deterioration, that the deterioration is not…
Claims that cannot be seized and obligations to return a deposit, a loan for use or a thing of which the owner has been unjustly deprived are only compensable if the creditor consents.
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