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Book III.

Obligations.[1]

Chapter I.
General Provisions.

Section I.
The Subject of the Obligation.

399.

The subject of an obligation may be something not capable of being estimated in money.

400.

If the subject of the obligation is the delivery of a specific thing, the debtor[2] must, until the time of delivery, use in the keeping of the thing the care of a good manager.

401.

When the thing which forms the subject of the obligation is described only in kind, if the quality

  1. ↑ In this translation the word “obligation” is used in the sense of the Roman Law to denote either the right of one party or the duty of the other.
  2. ↑ In this translation the words “debtor” and “creditor” are used to denote respectively the person subject to any kind of obligation and the person to whom it is owed, not as in English law only the parties to an obligation to pay money.
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