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Article 572 of the French Civil Code

Where a person has used in part the material which belonged to him and in part that which did not belong to him to form a thing of a new kind, without either of the two materials being entirely destroyed, but in such a way that they cannot be separated without inconvenience, the thing is common to the two owners, in proportion, as regards the one, to the material which belonged to him, as regards the other, in proportion both to the material which belonged to him and to the price of his labour. The price of the labour is estimated on the date of the auction provided for in article 575.

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Article 572

Lorsqu’une personne a employé en partie la matière qui lui appartenait et en partie celle qui ne lui appartenait pas à former une chose d’une espèce nouvelle, sans que ni l’une ni l’autre des deux matières soit entièrement détruite, mais de manière qu’elles ne puissent pas se séparer sans inconvénient, la chose est commune aux deux propriétaires, en raison, quant à l’un, de la matière qui lui appartenait, quant à l’autre, en raison à la fois et de la matière qui lui appartenait et du prix de sa main-d’oeuvre. Le prix de la main-d’oeuvre est estimé à la date de la licitation prévue à l’article 575.

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