Section 2: Legal mortgages

Other than those provided for by special laws, the claims to which a special legal mortgage is attached are as follows: 1° The claim for the sale price of an immovable is secured on it; 2° The claim of the person who provided the funds for the acquisition of an immovable is secured on it provided that it is authentically recorded by the deed of loan that the sum was…

The resolutory action established by article 1654 may not be exercised after the extinction of the seller’s special mortgage, or in the absence of registration of such mortgage, to the prejudice of third parties who have acquired rights over the property on the part of the purchaser and who have published them.

The holder of the claim referred to in 7° of Article 2402 conserves its mortgage by the double registration made: 1° By the author of the police order issued pursuant to article L. 184-1 du code de la construction et de l’habitation for measures enacted under penalty of a ban on living in or using the premises or permanent closure of the establishment or article L. 511-11 of the same…

By way of derogation from Article 2404, the mortgage may also be preserved solely by registration of the debt recovery instrument, up to its value.

Registration fees are payable by the debtors.

When the measures prescribed by the order or formal notice referred to in 1° of Article 2404 have been carried out by the owner or operator, the publication at their expense of a release order prior to the registration of the recovery order as provided for in 2° of the same article renders the first registration null and void. Mention is made of the cancellation resulting from this lapse in…