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An obligation is optional where it has as its object a certain performance but the debtor has the option, in order to be discharged, of providing another. The optional obligation is extinguished if pe…
Solidarity is legal or contractual; it cannot be presumed.
Solidarity between debtors obliges each of them to pay the entire debt. Payment by one of them discharges them all to the creditor. The creditor may request payment from the joint and several debtor o…
An authentic instrument is one that has been received, with the requisite solemnities, by a public official with the competence and capacity to act.It may be drawn up in electronic form if it is estab…
The spouses may declare, in a general manner, that they intend to marry under one of the regimes provided for in this Code. In the absence of special stipulations that derogate from or modify the comm…
An obligation is an alternative obligation when it covers several services and the performance of one of them releases the debtor.
A creditor who receives payment from one of the joint and several debtors and grants him a remission of joint and several liability retains his claim against the others, after deduction of the share o…
Res judicata applies only to what is the subject of the judgment. The thing sought must be the same; the claim must be based on the same cause of action; the claim must be between the same parties, an…
Except where the law provides otherwise, proof may be provided by any means.
The deed under private signature countersigned by the lawyers of each of the parties or by the lawyer of all the parties is proof of the handwriting and signature of the parties, both with regard to t…
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