French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Conditions required for the validity of the contract.
Article 1972
It can be formed on one or more heads.
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It can be formed on one or more heads.
Any life annuity contract created on the life of a person who was dead on the day of the contract has no effect.
In the case of the preceding article, the life annuity is reducible if it exceeds what it is permitted to dispose of; it is void if it is for the benefit of a person incapable of receiving.
It is perfected only by the real or fictitious surrender of the thing deposited.Fictitious surrender is sufficient when the depositary is already endowed, on some other basis, with the thing agreed to…
The life annuity may be constituted at such rate as the contracting parties may determine.
A life annuity may be constituted for a sum of money, or for an appreciable movable thing, or for an immovable.
The deposit itself is an essentially free contract.
Filing is voluntary or required.
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.
Subject to the provisions of Article 137, pre-trial detention may only be ordered or extended in one of the cases listed below: 1° The person under investigation is facing a criminal sentence; 2° The…
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