Article 648 of the French Civil Code
November 8, 2023
An owner who wishes to close himself off loses his right to rangeland and fallow grazing in proportion to the land he subtracts from it.
An owner who wishes to close himself off loses his right to rangeland and fallow grazing in proportion to the land he subtracts from it.
Easements established by law have as their object the public or communal utility, or the utility of private individuals.
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.
The law subjects owners to different obligations towards each other, independently of any agreement.
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.
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.
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…
The repair and reconstruction of the party wall shall be borne by all those entitled thereto, and in proportion to the right of each.
However, any co-owner of a party wall may be exempted from contributing to repairs and rebuilding by waiving the right of party ownership, provided that the party wall does not support a building belonging to him.
Any co-owner may build against a party wall, and have beams or joists placed in the full thickness of the wall, to within fifty-four millimetres, without prejudice to the neighbour’s right to have the beam rough-hewn down to half the wall, should he himself wish to set beams in the same place, or lean a chimney against it. .
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