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Code Henry

The first comprehensive legal code of the Kingdom of Haiti, promulgated by King Henry Christophe on February 20, 1812 — a sovereign act of juridical self-determination just eight years after the world's only successful slave revolution produced an independent nation. This digital edition presents the complete Code in 3,004 articles spanning 8 laws and 67 titres — from the Loi Civile's 1,535 articles on personhood, marriage, property, and succession, to the Loi sur la Procédure Criminelle's 421 articles on investigation, confrontation, and royal clemency. Every article has been hand-extracted from 19th-century OCR, corrected, translated into English, and annotated with plain-language life lessons and scholarly notes. Browse in French, English, or Kreyòl Ayisyen. 3,004 articles · 8 laws · 3 languages · 213 years restored

3,004 articles in the Code Henry

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1513
Article 1513 Civil Law · Des Causes qui interrompent ou qui suspendent le cours de la Prescription
Property Law
Prescription is interrupted against joint debtors and their heirs by citation served on one co-debtor or his acknowledgment; the same applies to indivisible obligations, but...
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Prescription is interrupted against joint debtors and their heirs by citation served on one co-debtor or his acknowledgment; the same applies to indivisible obligations, but citation to or acknowledgment by the heir of a joint debtor interrupts prescription only for his share, not for other heirs, unless the obligation is indivisible.

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1514
Article 1514 Civil Law · Des Causes qui interrompent ou qui suspendent le cours de la Prescription
Property Law
The surety may not prescribe when the principal debtor has been summoned in court, or when interruption has occurred against the debtor in any manner.
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The surety may not prescribe when the principal debtor has been summoned in court, or when interruption has occurred against the debtor in any manner.

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1515
Article 1515 Civil Law · Des Causes qui interrompent ou qui suspendent le cours de la Prescription
Property Law
Subject to exceptions established by law, prescription runs against all persons.
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Subject to exceptions established by law, prescription runs against all persons.

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1516
Article 1516 Civil Law · Des Causes qui interrompent ou qui suspendent le cours de la Prescription
Property Law
Prescription may not run against minors and interdicted persons except in cases determined by law, nor against the wife during her marriage if the action...
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Prescription may not run against minors and interdicted persons except in cases determined by law, nor against the wife during her marriage if the action reflects on the husband, or for an action exercisable only after choosing to renounce or accept the community.

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1517
Article 1517 Civil Law · Des Causes qui interrompent ou qui suspendent le cours de la Prescription
Property Law
Prescription is suspended during the three months for making inventory, and the forty days for deliberation, as well as for claims the beneficiary heir may...
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Prescription is suspended during the three months for making inventory, and the forty days for deliberation, as well as for claims the beneficiary heir may exercise against the succession; but it runs against vacant successions, whether or not provided with curators.

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1518
Article 1518 Civil Law · Du temps requis pour prescrire
Property Law
After thirty full years, all real and personal actions are prescribed, and the one who invokes this prescription is not required to produce a title;...
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After thirty full years, all real and personal actions are prescribed, and the one who invokes this prescription is not required to produce a title; the exception of bad faith may not even be raised against him.

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1519
Article 1519 Civil Law · Du temps requis pour prescrire
Property Law
The debtor of an annuity may be compelled to provide, at his expense, a new title to his creditor or successor, after twenty-eight years from...
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The debtor of an annuity may be compelled to provide, at his expense, a new title to his creditor or successor, after twenty-eight years from the date of the last title.

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1520
Article 1520 Civil Law · Du temps requis pour prescrire
Property Law
By acquiring an immovable in good faith and by just title, one prescribes ownership by ten years of possession against the owner residing in the...
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By acquiring an immovable in good faith and by just title, one prescribes ownership by ten years of possession against the owner residing in the province where the immovable is located; and by twenty years against the owner domiciled outside the province.

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1521
Article 1521 Civil Law · Du temps requis pour prescrire
Property Law
If the owner has had his domicile at different times within the province or outside it, the years lacking from the ten years of presence...
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If the owner has had his domicile at different times within the province or outside it, the years lacking from the ten years of presence shall be completed by adding double the number of missing years of absence.

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1522
Article 1522 Civil Law · Du temps requis pour prescrire
Property Law
The ten and twenty year prescription may not be acquired by a title rendered null by defect of form.
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The ten and twenty year prescription may not be acquired by a title rendered null by defect of form.

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1523
Article 1523 Civil Law · Du temps requis pour prescrire
Property Law
Good faith existing at the time of acquisition suffices for prescription; and as it is always presumed, the burden of proving bad faith falls on...
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Good faith existing at the time of acquisition suffices for prescription; and as it is always presumed, the burden of proving bad faith falls on the one who alleges it.

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1524
Article 1524 Civil Law · De l'extinction des Actions personnelles
Property Law
When there is no settled account, summons, obligation, or judicial citation, the personal action for payment of a claim shall be extinguished after the time...
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When there is no settled account, summons, obligation, or judicial citation, the personal action for payment of a claim shall be extinguished after the time fixed by the following articles.

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1525
Article 1525 Civil Law · De l'extinction des Actions personnelles
Labor Law
Teachers of sciences and arts, after six months, may not make any claim for lessons given monthly; the same applies to caterers and innkeepers for...
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Teachers of sciences and arts, after six months, may not make any claim for lessons given monthly; the same applies to caterers and innkeepers for lodging and food; and to workers for daily wages, who likewise may not bring any claim after six months.

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1526
Article 1526 Civil Law · De l'extinction des Actions personnelles
Labor Law
After one year, no action may be brought by the following: Doctors, surgeons, and apothecaries for visits, operations, and medicines; bailiffs for service of acts...
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After one year, no action may be brought by the following: Doctors, surgeons, and apothecaries for visits, operations, and medicines; bailiffs for service of acts and executed commissions; merchants for goods sold to non-merchant individuals; boarding house keepers for students' boarding fees; and other masters for apprenticeship fees, as well as persons hired by the year for their wages.

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1527
Article 1527 Civil Law · De l'extinction des Actions personnelles
Contract Law
Attorneys may not bring any action for payment of their fees after two years from the judgment of the case, the reconciliation of the parties,...
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Attorneys may not bring any action for payment of their fees after two years from the judgment of the case, the reconciliation of the parties, or from the date of their revocation.

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1528
Article 1528 Civil Law · De l'extinction des Actions personnelles
Procedural Law
Five years after the judgment, judges and attorneys shall be discharged from the documents submitted to them by the parties; bailiffs, after two years from...
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Five years after the judgment, judges and attorneys shall be discharged from the documents submitted to them by the parties; bailiffs, after two years from execution of the commission or service of acts they were charged with, shall likewise be discharged.

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1529
Article 1529 Civil Law · De l'extinction des Actions personnelles
Property Law
No one may claim payment for more than the last five years of house rents and farm lease prices; maintenance pensions, arrears of land, constituted...
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No one may claim payment for more than the last five years of house rents and farm lease prices; maintenance pensions, arrears of land, constituted and life annuities, and interest on sums lent; unless there is a settled account, note, obligation, or judicial demand already made for prior years, as stated in article 1524; subject to deferring the oath to the debtor.

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1530
Article 1530 Civil Law · De l'extinction des Actions personnelles
Property Law
He who has lost, or from whom a thing was stolen, if he has declared the loss or theft at the clerk's office of the...
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He who has lost, or from whom a thing was stolen, if he has declared the loss or theft at the clerk's office of the lieutenant judge or the seneschal court of his domicile, may claim it at any time from the person in whose hands he finds it; subject to the latter's recourse against the person from whom he obtained it.

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1531
Article 1531 Civil Law · De l'extinction des Actions personnelles
Property Law
But if the thing was purchased at a public sale, the former owner may not have it returned without reimbursing the current possessor the price...
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But if the thing was purchased at a public sale, the former owner may not have it returned without reimbursing the current possessor the price he paid.

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1532
Article 1532 Civil Law · De l'extinction des Actions personnelles
Property Law
The architect and contractors, after ten years, are discharged from the warranty on the works they made or directed.
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The architect and contractors, after ten years, are discharged from the warranty on the works they made or directed.

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