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Article 645 of the French Civil Code

If a dispute arises between the owners to whom these waters may be useful, the courts, in adjudicating, must reconcile the interests of agriculture with the respect due to property; and, in all cases, the particular and local regulations on the course and use of the waters must be observed.

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Article 650 of the French Civil Code

Those established for the public or communal utility have as their object the footpath along state-owned watercourses, the construction or repair of roads and other public or communal works. Everything concerning this species of easement is determined by specific laws or regulations.

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Article 652 of the French Civil Code

Part of these obligations is regulated by the laws on rural policing; The others relate to the party wall and ditch, where there is a need for a counter-wall, views onto the neighbour’s property, roof gutters, rights of way.

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Article 653 of the French Civil Code

In towns and the countryside, any wall used to separate buildings up to the dwelling, or between courtyards and gardens, and even between enclosures in the fields, is presumed to be a party wall if there is no title or mark to the contrary.

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Article 654 of the French Civil Code

There is a mark of non-citizenship when the top of the wall is straight and plumb with its facing on one side, and has a sloping plane on the other. When again there is only on one side or a coping or stone fillets and corbels which would have been put there when building the wall. In these cases, the wall is deemed to belong exclusively to the owner on…

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