French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Acquisitive prescription in property matters.
Article 2273
A title invalid for lack of form cannot serve as a basis for the ten-year statute of limitations.
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Showing 1011–1020 of 70378 articles for “Art. s. L 141-2 to L 141-22 · R 141-1 et seq.”
A title invalid for lack of form cannot serve as a basis for the ten-year statute of limitations.
Good faith is always presumed, and it is up to the person alleging bad faith to prove it.
It is sufficient that good faith existed at the time of acquisition.
The limitation period required to acquire ownership of real estate is thirty years.However, a person who acquires real estate in good faith and by just title prescribes ownership after ten years..
One cannot prescribe against one's title, in the sense that one cannot change to oneself the cause and principle of one's possession.
In order to prescribe, there must be continuous and uninterrupted, peaceful, public, unequivocal possession, and as owner.
Nor can acts of violence form the basis of possession capable of effecting prescription. Useful possession does not begin until violence has ceased.
To complete the prescription, one may join to his possession that of his author, in whatever manner one has succeeded to him, either universally or privately, or for profit or valuable consideration.
Those to whom tenants, bailees, usufructuaries and other precarious holders have transferred the property or the right by a title transferring ownership may prescribe it.
Acts of pure faculty and those of mere tolerance cannot found either possession or prescription.
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