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820

Article 820

Des Diverses espèces d'Obligations

Contract Law
Titre XVII: Des Contrats ou Obligations conventionnelles en général (On Contracts or Conventional Obligations in General)
Chapitre III: Des Diverses espèces d'Obligations (On the Various Kinds of Obligations)

L'obligation principale étant nulle, la clause pénale l'est aussi ; mais la nullité de celle-ci n'entraîne pas celle de l'obligation principale.

Life lesson: Kill the main obligation and the penalty dies too — but not the other way around.
Notes: Penal clause accessory to principal: nullity of principal kills penalty, not vice versa. Cf. Code Napoléon Art. 1227.
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