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Article 828

De l'Extinction des Obligations

Contract Law
Titre XVII: Des Contrats ou Obligations conventionnelles en général (On Contracts or Conventional Obligations in General)
Chapitre IV: De l'Extinction des Obligations (On the Extinction of Obligations)

Tout payement supposant une dette; ce qui a été payé sans être dû, peut être répété; mais l'action en répétition ne sera pas admise à l'égard des obligations naturelles qui ont été volontairement acquittées.

Life lesson: Pay what you don't owe, and you may get it back — unless it was a natural obligation you chose to honor.
Notes: Undue payment (paiement de l'indu): recoverable. Exception: voluntary payment of natural obligations (non-recoverable). Cf. Code Napoléon Art. 1235.
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