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Chapter VI.
Prescription.

Section I.
General Provisions.

144.

The effect of prescription relates back to the day from which its period is computed.

145.

If the party concerned does not claim the benefit of prescription, the court cannot make it the ground of its judgment.

146.

The benefit of prescription cannot be waived beforehand.

147.

Prescription is interrupted:—

  1. By a demand;
  2. By the levy of an execution or attachment or by a judicial order making a provisional disposition;
  3. By an acknowledgment.[1]

148.

The interruption mentioned in the preceding article has effect only as between the parties and their successors in title.

  1. ↑ That is, an acknowledgment by the debtor of the creditor’s right.
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