Table of Contents
- Cover Page
- Foreword
- Abbreviations
- Synopsis
- Preliminary title Of the general definitions of rights and the promulgation of the laws
- Book I Of persons
- Title I Of the distinction of persons, and the privation of certain civil rights in certain cases
- Title II Of domicil and the manner of changing the same
- Title III Of absent persons
- Chapter I Of the curatorship of absent persons
- Chapter II Of the putting into provisional possession the heirs of the absentee
- Chapter III Of the effects of absence upon the eventual rights which may belong to the absentee
- Chapter IV Of the effects of absence respecting marriage
- Chapter V Of the care of minor children whose father has disappeared
- Title IV Of husband and wife
- Title V Of the separation from bed and board
- Chapter I Of the causes of separation from bed and board
- Chapter II Of the proceedings on separation from bed and board
- Chapter III Of the provisional proceedings to which a suit for separation may give occasion
- Chapter IV Of objections to the action of separation from bed and board
- Chapter V Of the effects of separation from bed and board
- Title VI Of master and servant
- Title VII Of father and child
- Title VIII Of minors, of their tutorship, curatorship and emancipation
- Chapter I Of tutorship
- Section I General dispositions
- Section II Of tutorship by nature
- Section III Of tutorship by will
- Section IV Of the tutorship by the effect of the law
- Section V Of dative tutorship
- Section VI Of the under tutor
- Section VII Of the causes which dispense or excuse from the tutorship
- Section VIII Of incapacity for, exclusion from and deprivation of the tutorship
- Section IX Of the administration of the tutor
- Chapter II Of the curatorship of minors
- Chapter III Of emancipation
- Chapter I Of tutorship
- Title IX Of persons insane, idiots, and other persons incapable of administering their estate
- Title X Of communities or corporations
- Book II Of things and of the different modifications of property
- Title I Of things or estates
- Title II Of absolute ownership
- Title III Of usufruct, use and habitation
- Title IV Of predial services or services of land
- Book III Of the different manners of acquiring the property of things
- Preliminary title General dispositions
- Title I Of successions
- Chapter I Of the different sorts of successions and heirs
- Chapter II Of legal successions
- Chapter III Of irregular successions
- Chapter IV In what manner successions are opened
- Chapter V Of the incapacity and unworthiness of the heirs
- Chapter VI In what manner a succession is accepted and how it is renounced
- Chapter VII Of the administration of vacant estates and estates ab intestato
- Chapter VIII Of partition among heirs and of the collation of goods
- Title II Of donations inter vivos (between living persons) and mortis causa (in prospect of death)
- Chapter I General dispositions
- Chapter II Of the capacity necessary for disposing of and receiving by donation inter vivos or mortis causa
- Chapter III Of the portion disposable, and of its reduction in case of excess
- Chapter IV Of dispositions reprobated by the law in donations inter vivos and mortis causa
- Chapter V Of donations inter vivos (between living)
- Chapter VI Of dispositions mortis causa (in the prospect of death)
- Section I Of testament or codicil
- Section II Of the form of testaments and codicils
- Section III Of testamentary dispositions
- Section IV Of the institution of heir and of disinherison
- Section V Of legacies
- Section VI Of the opening and the proof of wills, and of testamentary executions
- Section VII Of the revocation of testaments and codicils and of their caducity
- Section VIII Of the interpretation of testamentary dispositions
- Chapter VII Of partitions made by parents among their descendants
- Chapter VIII Of donations made by marriage contract to the husband or wife, and to the children to be born of the marriage
- Chapter IX Of donations between married persons, either by marriage contract, or during the marriage
- Title III Of contracts and of conventional obligations in general
- Chapter I Preliminary dispositions
- Chapter II Of the conditions essential to the validity of agreements
- Chapter III Of the effect of obligations
- Section I General dispositions
- Section II Of the obligation of giving
- Section III Of the obligations of doing or of not doing
- Section IV Of the damages resulting from the non execution of the obligation
- Section V Of the interpretation of the agreements
- Section VI Of the effect of agreements with regard to persons not parties to them
- Chapter IV Of the different kinds of obligations
- Chapter V Of the extinction of obligations
- Chapter VI Of the proof of obligations and of that of payment
- Title IV Of engagements formed without agreements, or of quasi contracts and quasi offences
- Title V Of marriage contract
- Title VI Of sale
- Chapter I Of the nature and form of the contract of sale, and of the manner in which it is to be performed
- Chapter II Of persons capable of buying and selling, and of things which may be sold
- Chapter III Of the obligations of the seller
- Chapter IV Of the obligations of the buyer
- Chapter V Of the nullity and rescissions of the sale
- Chapter VI Of sales by cant or auction
- Chapter VII Of the assignment or transfer of debts and other incorporeal rights
- Title VII Of exchange
- Title VIII Of letting and hiring
- Title IX Of partnership
- Title X Of loan
- Title XI Of deposit and sequestration
- Title XII Of aleatory contracts
- Title XIII Of mandate or commission
- Chapter I Of the nature of proxies, mandates and commissions
- Chapter II What persons may be appointed attornies in fact
- Chapter III Of the obligations of a person acting under a power of attorney
- Chapter IV Of the obligations of the principal who acts by his attorney in fact
- Chapter V How the procuration expires
- Title XIV Of suretyship
- Title XV Of transactions
- Title XVI Of respite
- Title XVII Of compromises or arbitration
- Title XVIII Of pledge
- Title XIX Of privileges and mortgages
- Title XX Of occupancy, possession and prescription
- Title XXI Of the title by judgment or seizure
- Index
- Manuscript index
- Manuscript index Part 2
SECTION II – OF THE WARRANTY, IN CASE OF EVICTION OF THE THING SOLD
Art. 49. Although at the time of the sale no stipulations have been made respecting the warranty, the seller is obliged of course to warrant the buyer against the eviction suffered by him of the totality or part of the thing sold, and against the charges claimed on that object which were not declared at the time of the sale.
Art. 50. The eviction is the loss suffered by the buyer of the totality of the thing sold or of a part thereof, occasioned by the right or claims of a third person.
Art. 51. The parties may by particular agreement add to the obligation of warranty which results of right from the sale, or diminish its effect: they may even agree that the seller shall not be subject to any warranty.
Art. 52. Although it be agreed that the seller is not subject to warranty, he is however accountable for what results from his personal act, and any contrary agreement is void.
Art. 53. Even in case of stipulation of no warranty, the seller, in case of eviction, is liable to a restitution of the price, unless the buyer was aware, at the time of the sale, of the danger of the eviction and purchased at his peril or risk.
Art. 54. When there is a promise of warranty or when no stipulation was made on that subject, if the buyer be evicted, he has a right to claim against the seller, 1st, the restitution of the price; 2d, that of the fruits or revenues when he is obliged to return them to the owner who evicts him; 3d, all the costs occasioned either by the suit in warranty, against the buyer, or by that brought by the original plaintiff, 4th, in fine, the damages, when he has suffered any, besides the price that he has paid.
Art. 55. When at the time of the eviction the thing sold has lost any of its value or is considerably impaired either through the neglect of the buyer or by any providential acts or unforeseen accidents, the seller is still bound to the restitution of the full price.
Art. 56. If however the thing sold was impaired by the buyer and he has reaped some benefit therefrom, the seller has a right to retain on the price, the amount to which said damage may be estimated in favor of the owner who evicts him.
Art. 57. If at the time of the eviction the thing sold has risen in value even without the buyer having contributed thereto, the seller is bound to pay him the amount of said augmentation of value above the price of the sale.
Art. 58. The seller is bound to reimburse or cause to be reimbursed to the buyer by the person who evicts him, all useful improvements made by him on the premises.
Art. 59. If the seller knowingly and dishonestly has sold the property of another person, he shall be obliged to reimburse to the buyer all expences, even those of the embellishment of luxury, that said buyer has been at on improving the premises.
Art. 60. If only a part of the thing sold be evicted and it be of such consequence relatively to the whole, that the buyer would not have purchased it without the part which is evicted, he may have the sale cancelled.
Art. 61. If in case of eviction of a part of the thing, the sale is not cancelled, the value of the evicted part is to be reimbursed to the buyer according to its estimate at the time of the eviction and not proportionally to the total price of the sale.
Art. 62. If the inheritance sold, be incumbered with servitudes not apparent without any declaration having been made thereof, if said servitudes be of such importance that there is cause to presume that the buyer would never have contracted, if he had been aware of the incumbrance, he may claim the cancelling of the contract, should he not prefer to have an indemnification.
Art. 63. Other questions arising from a claim of damages resulting to the buyer from the non execution of the contract of sale, shall be decided by the general rules established under the title of contracts or conventional obligations in general.
Art. 64. The warranty for cause of eviction ceases when the buyer has let himself be cast in a definitive judgement without calling on his seller, if said seller prove that he had sufficient ground or means to have obtained a judgement in his favor, of which he could not avail himself for want of having been called upon.
SECTION II - DE LA GARANTIE EN CAS D'ÉVICTION DE LA CHOSE VENDUE
Art. 49. Quoique lors de la vente, il n'ait été fait aucune stipulation sur la garantie, le vendeur est obligé de droit, à garantir l'acquéreur de l'éviction qu'il souffre de la totalité ou partie de l'objet vendu, ou des charges prétendues sur cet objet, et non déclarées lors de la vente.
Art. 50. L'éviction est la perte que souffre l'acquéreur de la chose vendue, ou d'une partie par le droit d'un tiers.
Art. 51. Les parties peuvent par des conventions particulières, ajouter à l'obligation de garantie qui résulte de droit de la vente, ou en diminuer l'effet; elles peuvent même convenir que le vendeur ne sera soumis à aucune garantie.
Art. 52. Quoiqu'il soit dit que le vendeur ne sera soumis à aucune garantie, il demeure cependant tenu de celle qui résulte d'un fait qui lui est personnel; et toute convention contraire est nulle.
Art. 53. Dans le cas, même de stipulation de non garantie, le vendeur, en cas d'éviction, est tenu à la restitution du prix, excepté que l'acquéreur n'ait connu, lors de la vente, le danger de l'éviction, et qu'il n'ait acheté à ses périls et risques.
Art. 54. Si la garantie a été promise, ou s'il n'a été rien stipulé à cet égard, et que l'acquéreur soit évincé, il a le droit de demander, contre le vendeur, 1°. la restitution du prix; 2°. celle des fruits, lorsqu'il est obligé de les rendre au propriétaire qui l'évince; 3°. tous les frais faits, tant sur la demande en garantie de l'acheteur, que ceux faits par le demandeur originaire; 4°. enfin, les dommages et intérêts, lorsqu'il en a souffert au delà du prix qu'il a payé.
Art. 55. Lorsqu'à l'époque de l'éviction, la chose vendue se trouve diminuée de valeur ou considérablement détériorée, soit par la négligence de l'acheteur, soit par des accidens de force majeure, le vendeur n'en est pas moins tenu de restituer la totalité du prix.
Art. 56. Si, néanmoins, les dégradations ont été faites par l'acquéreur, et qu'il en ait tiré un profit, le vendeur a droit de retenir, sur le prix, la valeur à laquelle ces dégradations ont été estimées au profit du propriétaire qui l'évince.
Art. 57. Et si la chose vendue se trouve avoir augmenté de prix, lors de l'éviction, indépendamment même du fait de l'acquéreur, le vendeur est tenu de lui payer ce qu'elle vaut, au-dessus du prix de la vente.
Art. 58. Le vendeur est tenu de rembourser, ou de faire rembourser à l'acquéreur, par celui qui l'évince, toutes les améliorations utiles qu'il aura faites au fonds.
Art. 59. Si le vendeur avait vendu, de mauvaise foi et en connaissance de cause, le fonds d'autrui, il sera obligé de rembourser à l'acquéreur toutes les dépenses, même voluptuaires ou d'agrément, que celui-ci aura faites au fonds.
Art. 60. Si une partie, seulement, de la chose vendue est évincée, et qu'elle soit de telle conséquence, relativement au tout, que l'acquéreur ne l'eut pas achetée sans la partie évincée, il peut faire résilier la vente.
Art. 61. Si, dans le cas de l'éviction d'une partie de la chose, la vente n'est pas résiliée, la valeur de la partie évincée est remboursée à l'acquéreur, suivant son estimation à l'époque de l'éviction, et non proportionnellement au prix total de la vente.
Art. 62. Si l'héritage vendu se trouve grevé, sans qu'il ait été fait déclaration, de servitudes non apparentes, et qu'elles soient de telle importance qu'il y ait lieu de présumer que l'acquéreur n'aurait pas acheté, s'il en avait été instruit, il peut demander la résiliation du contrat, si mieux il n'aime se contenter d'une indemnité.
Art. 63. Les autres questions auxquelles peuvent donner lieu les dommages et intérêts résultant pour l'acquéreur de l'inexécution de la vente, doivent être décidées par les règles générales établies au titre des contrats ou des obligations conventionnelles en général.
Art. 64. La garantie pour cause d'éviction, cesse lorsque l'acquéreur s'est laissé condamner par jugement définitif, sans appeler son vendeur, si celui-ci prouve qu'il avait des moyens suffisans pour faire rejeter la demande, qui n'ont pas été employés faute de l'avoir appelé.
