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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Deeds under private signature

Article 1377

A private-signature deed only acquires date certain with regard to third parties on the day it is registered, the day a signatory dies, or the day its substance is recorded in an authentic instrument.

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Paragraph 2: The indivisible performance obligation

Article 1320

Each of the creditors of an obligation with an indivisible performance, by nature or by contract, may demand and receive payment in full, subject to rendering an account to the others; but he alone ma…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Assignment of receivables

Article 1326

A person who assigns a claim for consideration guarantees the existence of the claim and its accessories, unless the assignee acquired it at his own risk or knew of the uncertain nature of the claim.…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: Delegation

Article 1337

Where the delegator is a debtor of the delegatee and the delegatee's intention to discharge the delegator is expressly stated in the deed, the delegation constitutes novation. However, the delegator r…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General rules

Article 1347

Compensation is the simultaneous extinction of reciprocal obligations between two persons.It takes place, subject to being invoked, in due proportion, on the date when its conditions are met.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article 1368

In the absence of provisions or agreements to the contrary, the judge shall settle conflicts of evidence in writing by determining by any means the most likely title.

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Subsection 2: The authentic instrument

Article 1371

An authentic instrument is authentic until a forgery is recorded in respect of what the public official says he has personally performed or recorded.In the event of a forgery being recorded, the judge…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article 1391

The marriage contract must determine the assets to which the option stipulated in favour of the survivor will apply. It may lay down bases of valuation and terms of payment, except for the reduction i…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Sub-title III: Other sources of obligations

Article 1300

Quasi-contracts are purely voluntary acts from which result an obligation on the part of the person who benefits from them without being entitled to do so, and sometimes an obligation on the part of t…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: The conditional obligation

Article 1304

An obligation is conditional when it depends on a future and uncertain event. The condition is suspensive when its fulfilment renders the obligation pure and simple. It is resolutory when its fulfilme…

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