French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Conditions required for the validity of the contract.
Article 1976
The life annuity may be constituted at such rate as the contracting parties may determine.
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The life annuity may be constituted at such rate as the contracting parties may determine.
…shall owe interest on the sums which he has employed for his use from the date of such employment; and on those of which he is in arrears from the day on which he is put in default.
It is permissible to stipulate interest for simple loans either of money, commodities, or other movable things.
A borrower who has paid interest that was not stipulated may neither repeat it nor set it off against the capital.
A life annuity may be constituted for a sum of money, or for an appreciable movable thing, or for an immovable.
The borrower is obliged to return the things lent, in the same quantity and quality, and at the agreed term.
If he is unable to comply, he is obliged to pay the value having regard to the time and place where the thing was to be returned according to the agreement. If that time and place have not been settle…
The same applies to a contract under which the annuity was created on the life of a person suffering from the illness from which he died within twenty days of the date of the contract.
The principal is bound to perform the commitments entered into by the agent, in accordance with the authority given to him. He is only bound by what may have been done beyond that, insofar as he has r…
…all be made by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt or by notification between lawyers and evidence thereof shall be provided to the Judgement Office within the time limits it shall set.…
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