Book III: Different ways of acquiring property

The creditor may refuse a partial payment even if the benefit is divisible. He may agree to receive in payment something other than what is due. .

The debtor of an obligation to deliver a certain body is discharged by its delivery to the creditor in the same condition, unless he proves, in the case of deterioration, that the deterioration is not due to his act or to that of persons for whom he is responsible. .

Failing any other designation by law, contract or judge, payment must be made at the debtor’s domicile.

Payment costs are to be borne by the debtor.

Payment can be proven by any means.

Voluntary delivery by the creditor to the debtor of the original under private signature or of the enforceable copy of the instrument of his claim is equivalent to a simple presumption of discharge. The same delivery to one of the joint and several co-debtors produces the same effect with regard to all.

A debtor of several debts may indicate, when paying, which debt he intends to discharge. Failing indication by the debtor, the imputation takes place as follows: first on the debts due; among these, on the debts which the debtor had the most interest in discharging. In the event of equal interest, the charge is made against the oldest; all other things being equal, it is made proportionally.