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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Copies

Article 1379

A reliable copy has the same probative value as the original. Reliability is left to the discretion of the judge. Nevertheless, an enforceable or authentic copy of an authentic writing is deemed relia…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Business management

Article 1301

…the performance of the legal and material acts of his management, to all the obligations of an agent.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter II: Payment of undue payments

Article 1302

Any payment presupposes a debt; what has been received without being due is subject to restitution. Restitution is not admitted in respect of natural obligations which have been voluntarily discharged…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Novation

Article 1331

…declared object is to substitute a valid undertaking for an undertaking which is vitiated by a defect.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Novation

Article 1335

Novation agreed between the creditor and one of the joint and several debtors discharges the others. A novation agreed between the creditor and a guarantor does not release the principal debtor. It re…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: Delegation

Article 1338

…atee a second debtor. Payment made by one of the two debtors discharges the other, to the same extent.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 5: Impossibility of performance

Article 1351

The impossibility of performing the service discharges the debtor to the extent of such impossibility if it is due to force majeure and is definitive, unless the debtor has agreed to take responsibili…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article 1390

They may, however, stipulate that on the dissolution of the marriage by the death of one of them, the surviving spouse shall have the option of acquiring or, as the case may be, having attributed to h…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Joint and several liability

Article 1315

…the case of set-off or remission of a debt, he may rely on it to have it deducted from the total debt.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Joint and several liability

Article 1319

Joint and several debtors are jointly and severally liable for the non-performance of the obligation. The onus is definitively on those to whom the non-performance is attributable.

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