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1535

Article 1535

De l'extinction des Actions personnelles

Procedural Law
Titre XXXIV: De la Prescription (On Prescription)
Chapitre V: De l'extinction des Actions personnelles (On the Extinction of Personal Actions)

On pourra déférer le serment au débiteur, qui opposera la prescription, pour les actions personnelles mentionnées dans ce chapitre, sur la question de savoir, si réellement la chose a été payée ; on peut aussi le déférer aux veuves et héritiers, ou aux tuteurs, si ces derniers sont mineurs, pour qu'ils déclarent s'ils savent que la chose est encore due.

Life lesson: Even after prescription, the debtor can be put under oath to swear the debt was truly paid — and widows, heirs, and tutors can be asked to swear whether it's still owed.
Notes: Oath mechanism: creditor may defer oath to prescribing debtor (was it paid?), or to widows/heirs/tutors (is it still owed?). Moral safeguard against dishonest prescription invocation. FIN of Loi civile.
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