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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter III: Interest-bearing loans.

Article 1907

Interest is legal or conventional. Legal interest is fixed by law. Conventional interest may exceed that of the law, whenever the law does not prohibit it. The rate of conventional interest must be fi…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Voluntary deposit.

Article 1925

Voluntary deposits may only take place between persons capable of contracting. Nevertheless, if a person capable of contracting accepts a deposit made by an incapable person, he is bound by all the ob…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Conventional sequestration.

Article 1956

Conventional sequestration is the deposit by one or more persons of a disputed item in the hands of a third party who undertakes to return it, once the dispute is over, to the person who is deemed to…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Conditions required for the validity of the contract.

Article 1969

It may also be set up, purely gratuitously, by donation inter vivos or by will. In this case, it must comply with the formalities required by law.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Effects of the contract between the contracting parties.

Article 1981

A life annuity can only be stipulated as unseizable when it has been constituted free of charge.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Deposits in general and their various types.

Article 1915

Deposit, in general, is an act by which one receives the thing of another, with the charge of keeping it and returning it in kind.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Voluntary deposit.

Article 1924

Where the deposit being above the figure provided for in Article 1359 is not proved in writing, the person who is challenged as the depositary is believed to be the depositary on the basis of his decl…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Different types of sequestration.

Article 1955

Sequestration is either conventional or judicial.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: The nature and form of the mandate.

Article 1985

The mandate may be given by deed or by private document, even by letter. It may also be given orally, but testimonial evidence of it is received only in accordance with the title "Of contracts or conv…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Obligations of the depositary.

Article 1932

The depositary must return identically the very thing he has received. Thus, the deposit of monies must be returned in the same species as it was made, either in the case of an increase or decrease in…

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