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Article 2428 of the French Civil Code

It is open to the person who has requested a registration and to his representatives or assignees by authentic act to change the domicile elected by him in this registration at the service responsible for land registration, on condition that he chooses and indicates another domicile located in metropolitan France, in the overseas departments or in the territorial collectivity of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon.

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Article 2429 of the French Civil Code

The registration preserves the mortgage until the date set by the creditor in accordance with the following provisions. If the principal of the secured obligation is to be discharged on one or more specified dates, the latest effective date of the registration taken before the due date or the last due date provided for is, at most, one year after that due date, but the duration of the registration may…

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Article 2430 of the French Civil Code

Registration ceases to have effect if it has not been renewed by the date referred to in the first paragraph of Article 2429. Each renewal is required until a specified date. This date is fixed as stated in Article 2429, distinguishing according to whether or not the due date or the last due date, even if it results from an extension of time, is fixed and whether or not it…

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Article 2432 of the French Civil Code

When a provisional registration of a judicial mortgage has been made, the provisions of articles 2429 to 2431 apply to the definitive registration and its renewal. The starting date for the time limits is the date of definitive registration or renewal. .

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Article 2433 of the French Civil Code

If there is no stipulation to the contrary, the costs of the registrations, the advance of which is made by the registrant, shall be borne by the debtor, and the costs of the publication of the deed of sale, which may be required by the vendor with a view to the registration of his legal mortgage, shall be borne by the purchaser.

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Article 2434 of the French Civil Code

The actions to which the registrations may give rise against the creditors shall be brought before the competent court, by writ served on them personally, or at the last of the domiciles elected by them on the registration slips, and this, notwithstanding the death, either of the creditors, or of those with whom they have elected domicile.

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Article 2435 of the French Civil Code

Registrations shall be struck off with the consent of the parties concerned and having capacity to do so, or by virtue of a judgment of last resort or having the force of res judicata. Cancellation is binding on a creditor who has not made the publication, in the form of a note in the margin, provided for in the fourth paragraph of Article 2416.

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Article 2436 of the French Civil Code

In either case, those requesting the cancellation shall file with the service responsible for land registration the authenticated copy of the deed of consent, or that of the judgment. No supporting document is required in support of the authenticated copy of the deed as regards the statements establishing the status, capacity and quality of the parties, where these statements are certified as accurate in the deed by the notary or…

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Article 2437 of the French Civil Code

Cancellation not consented to shall be applied for in the court within whose jurisdiction the entry was made, except where that entry was made as security for a possible or indeterminate sentence, on the enforcement or liquidation of which the debtor and the alleged creditor are pending or are to be tried in another court; in which case the application for cancellation must be brought there or referred there. However,…

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