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with knowledge that it would prejudice the creditor. This does not apply, if the person enriched by such juristic act or a subsequent acquirer did not know, at the time of the act or of the acquisition, of the facts which would make it prejudicial to the creditor.
This does not apply to a juristic act whose subject is not a property right.
425.
A rescisssion made according to the provisions of the preceding article avails for the benefit of all the creditors.
426.
The right of rescission mentioned in Art. 424 is extinguished by prescription, if the creditor does not exercise it for two years from the time when he had notice of the cause of rescission. The same applies, if twenty years have elapsed since the time of the act.