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Chapter II: Time limits and starting point of extinctive prescription.

Article 2225 of the French Civil Code

A liability action against persons who have represented or assisted the parties in court, including for the loss or destruction of documents entrusted to them, shall be barred after five years from the end of their assignment.

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Article 2226 of the French Civil Code

An action for liability arising from an event resulting in bodily injury, brought by the direct or indirect victim of the resulting injury, shall be barred after ten years from the date of consolidation of the initial or aggravated injury. However, in the case of injury caused by torture or acts of barbarism, or by violence or sexual assault committed against a minor, an action for civil liability shall be…

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Article 2226-1 of the French Civil Code

A liability action seeking compensation for ecological damage redressable under Chapter III of Subtitle II of Title III of this Book shall be barred after ten years from the day on which the holder of the action knew or ought to have known of the manifestation of the ecological damage.

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Article 2227 of the French Civil Code

The right of ownership is imprescriptible. Subject to this reservation, actions in rem in immovable property are prescribed by thirty years from the day on which the holder of a right knew or should have known the facts enabling him to exercise it.

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