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693.

If the death happens from a cause attributable to the debtor, the court may on the application of the creditor or his heir order that the obligation continue for a reasonable time.

This does not affect the exercise of the right mentioned in Art. 691.

694.

The provisions of this Section apply correspondingly to a legacy of a life annuity.

Section XIV.
Compromise.[1]

695.

A compromise is where parties agree to settle a dispute between them by mutual concessions.

696.

If by the compromise it is admitted that one of the parties has the right which forms the subject of the dispute, or that the other has not that right, and it is afterwards established that the former party did not previously have such right, or that the other party had

  1. ↑ Compromissum in Roman Law.
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