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expenses in respect to the immovable mortgaged, he has a prior claim for compensation out of the price of the immovable according to the distinctions stated in Art. 196.

392.

If the creditor has a mortgage on several immovables for the same obligation, and the price of all of them is to be distributed at the same time, the burden of the obligation is apportioned according to the respective values of such immovables.

If the price of only one of such immovables is to be distributed at one time, the mortgagee may claim performance of his entire obligation from that price. In that case the mortgagee who is next in rank may exercise the rights of the prior mortgagee in his stead to the extent of the amount which the latter would have received from the other immovables according to the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

393.

A person who exercises the right of mortgage in another’s stead according to the provisions of the preceding article, may have a note of such fact added to the registry of the mortgage.

394.

A mortgagee is entitled to performance of his obligation from other property only so far as he is not able to obtain it from the price of the immovable mortgaged.

This provision does not apply, if the price obtained for other property is to be distributed before the price of the immovable mortgaged; but in order to secure that the mortgagee receives payment according to

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