French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions.
Article 2228
The prescription is counted in days, not hours.
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The prescription is counted in days, not hours.
The postponement of the starting point, suspension or interruption of prescription may not have the effect of extending the period of extinctive prescription beyond twenty years from the day on which…
Mortgages are always granted for the capital up to a specified amount, which the notarial deed mentions on pain of nullity. Where applicable, the parties shall assess any indeterminate, contingent or…
The mortgage is indivisible, notwithstanding the division of the debt: the co-debtor who owns the mortgaged immovable is, on that immovable, held for the whole; each of the creditors has the whole imm…
A mortgage is the assignment of a property as security for an obligation without dispossessing the person who sets it up.
Mortgages are only granted in the cases and according to the forms authorised by law.
The judicial mortgage, which is constituted as a conservatory measure, is governed by the Code of Civil Enforcement Procedures.
Contracts made in foreign countries cannot give a mortgage on French property, unless there are provisions contrary to this principle in political laws or treaties.
A mortgage may be legal, judicial or conventional.
The conventional mortgage is granted by notarial deed. The mandate to mortgage is given in the same forms.
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