French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Buildings
Article 518
Land and buildings are immovable by their nature.
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Land and buildings are immovable by their nature.
Ordinary cuttings of coppiced or mature woodland put into regulated cuttings only become movable as and when the trees are felled.
…new kind, without either of the two materials being entirely destroyed, but in such a way that they cannot be separated without inconvenience, the thing is common to the two owners, in proportion, as…
When the thing remains in common between the owners of the materials from which it was formed, it must be licensed for the common benefit.
The possessor is in good faith when he possesses as owner, by virtue of a title transferring ownership of which he is unaware of the defects. He ceases to be in good faith from the moment these defect…
…rent masters, which have been united so as to form a whole, are nevertheless separable, so that one can subsist without the other, the whole belongs to the master of the thing which forms the principa…
A main part is deemed to be that to which the other has been joined only for the use, ornament or complement of the first.
…uces, and to that which is accessorily united to it either naturally or artificially. This right is called the "right of accession".
The natural or industrial fruits of the earth, The civil fruits, The growth of animals, belong to the owner by right of accession.
If of two things united to form a single whole, one cannot be regarded as the accessory of the other, that one is deemed to be principal which is the more considerable in value, or in volume, if the v…
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