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Article 2381 of the French Civil Code

The creditor collects the fruits of the property assigned as security with the obligation to set them off against the interest, if any is due, and subsidiarily against the principal of the debt.

He is obliged, on pain of forfeiture, to provide for the conservation and maintenance of the property and may use the fruits collected for this purpose before setting them off against the debt. He may at any time withdraw from this obligation by returning the property to its owner.

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Article 2381

Le créancier perçoit les fruits de l’immeuble affecté en garantie à charge de les imputer sur les intérêts, s’il en est dû, et subsidiairement sur le capital de la dette.

Il est tenu, à peine de déchéance, de pourvoir à la conservation et à l’entretien de l’immeuble et peut y employer les fruits perçus avant de les imputer sur la dette. Il peut à tout moment se soustraire à cette obligation en restituant le bien à son propriétaire.

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