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Article 1303 of the French Civil Code

Apart from cases of business management and undue payment, a person who benefits from unjustified enrichment to the detriment of another owes, to the person who is impoverished thereby, compensation equal to the lesser of the two values of the enrichment and the impoverishment.

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Article 1303
En dehors des cas de gestion d’affaires et de paiement de l’indu, celui qui bénéficie d’un enrichissement injustifié au détriment d’autrui doit, à celui qui s’en trouve appauvri, une indemnité égale à la moindre des deux valeurs de l’enrichissement et de l’appauvrissement.

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