French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Waiver of limitation.
Article 2252
A person who is unable to exercise his rights himself cannot waive the acquired prescription on his own.
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A person who is unable to exercise his rights himself cannot waive the acquired prescription on his own.
When the law subordinates the exercise of a right to the provision of security, it is said to be legal. Where the law confers on the judge the power to make the satisfaction of a claim subject to the…
Interruption wipes out the acquired limitation period. It starts a new period of the same duration as the old one.
A payment made to extinguish a debt cannot be repeated solely on the grounds that the limitation period had expired.
Extinctive prescription is subject to the law governing the right it affects.
The suspension of the limitation period temporarily halts its course without erasing the period that has already run.
Acknowledgement by the debtor of the right of the person against whom he was prescribing interrupts the prescription period.
The limitation period is suspended from the day on which, after a dispute has arisen, the parties agree to have recourse to mediation or conciliation or, in the absence of a written agreement, from th…
The interruption is null and void if the claimant withdraws his claim or allows the proceedings to lapse, or if his claim is definitively rejected.
Creditors, or any other person with an interest in prescription being acquired, may set it up against or invoke it even when the debtor waives it.
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