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.
…ho 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.
If it was only agreed that the borrower would pay when he could, or when he had the means to do so, the judge will set him a payment term according to the circumstances.
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 capital of the annuity constituted in perpetuity also becomes payable in the event of the bankruptcy or insolvency of the debtor.
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.
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