Subsection 2: Special rules

Set-off may be ordered by a court, even if one of the obligations, although certain, is not yet liquid or due. Unless otherwise decided, the set-off takes effect on the date of the decision.

The judge may not refuse the set-off of related debts on the sole ground that one of the obligations would not be liquid or due. In this case, the set-off is deemed to have occurred on the day on which the first of them became due. In the same case, the acquisition of rights by a third party in one of the obligations does not prevent its debtor from opposing…

The parties may freely agree to extinguish any mutual obligations, present or future, by way of compensation; such compensation shall take effect on the date of their agreement or, in the case of future obligations, on the date of their co-existence.