Section 1: General provisions.

The prescription is counted in days, not hours.

It is acquired when the last day of the term is completed.

The suspension of the limitation period temporarily halts its course without erasing the period that has already run.

Interruption wipes out the acquired limitation period. It starts a new period of the same duration as the old one.

The postponement of the starting point, suspension or interruption of prescription may not have the effect of extending the period of extinctive prescription beyond twenty years from the day on which the right arose. The first paragraph does not apply in the cases referred to in articles 2226, 2226-1, 2227, 2233 and 2236, in the first paragraph of article 2241 and to l’article 2244. Nor does it apply to actions…