All actions arising from the bill of exchange against the acceptor shall be barred after three years from the due date.
The bearer’s actions against the endorsers and against the drawer shall be barred after one year from the date of the protest drawn up in due time or from the due date, in the case of a no-cost return clause.
Actions by endorsers against each other and against the drawer are time-barred after six months from the day on which the endorser has repaid the letter or from the day on which he himself was sued.
Time-barring periods, in the event of legal action, run only from the day of the last legal action. They do not apply if there has been a conviction, or if the debt has been recognised by separate act.
The interruption of prescription has effect only against the person in respect of whom the interruptive act was made.
Nevertheless, the alleged debtors are obliged, if so required, to affirm, under oath, that they are no longer indebted, and their surviving spouse, heirs or assigns, that they believe in good faith that nothing is still owed.