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Showing 20412050 of 61852 articles for Art. Cass. 1re civ. 4 December 2013 · Cass. com. 15 November 2005 · Cass. com. 2 April 1974 · Cass. com. 13 May 1980

French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article 1353

A person who claims the performance of an obligation must prove it. Conversely, a person who claims to be discharged must justify the payment or the fact which produced the extinction of his obligatio…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article 1356

Contracts on evidence are valid where they relate to rights of which the parties have free disposal. Nevertheless, they cannot contradict irrebuttable presumptions established by law, nor modify the f…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Assignment of receivables

Article 1322

The assignment of a claim must be recorded in writing, failing which it will be null and void.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: The cumulative obligation

Article 1306

The obligation is cumulative when it covers several services and only the performance of all of them discharges the debtor.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Cognitive acts

Article 1380

The recognitive deed does not dispense with the presentation of the original title unless its content is specially stated therein. What it contains that is additional to or different from the original…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Confusion

Article 1349

Confusion results when the qualities of creditor and debtor of the same obligation are combined in the same person. It extinguishes the claim and its accessories, subject to rights acquired by or agai…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article 1366

An electronic document has the same evidential value as a paper document, provided that the person from whom it emanates can be duly identified and that it is drawn up and stored in conditions that gu…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Deeds under private signature

Article 1377

A private-signature deed only acquires date certain with regard to third parties on the day it is registered, the day a signatory dies, or the day its substance is recorded in an authentic instrument.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article 1368

In the absence of provisions or agreements to the contrary, the judge shall settle conflicts of evidence in writing by determining by any means the most likely title.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Sub-title III: Other sources of obligations

Article 1300

Quasi-contracts are purely voluntary acts from which result an obligation on the part of the person who benefits from them without being entitled to do so, and sometimes an obligation on the part of t…

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