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159.
As to obligations existing in favour of an incapacitated person against his father, mother or guardian who has managed his property, prescription is not completed until six months after he has acquired capacity, or a new legal representative has assumed his functions.
As to obligations existing in favour of a wife against her husband prescription is not completed until six months after the dissolution of the marriage.
160.
As against an estate which forms the subject of a succession, prescription is not completed until six months after the time when the heir is ascertained, a manager is appointed, or an adjudication of bankruptcy is made.
161.
If at the time when the prescription would end, an interruption of the prescription is prevented by the operation of natural forces[1] or by inevitable accident, prescription is not completed until two weeks after the time when such obstacle has ceased to exist.
Section II.
Acquisitive Prescription.
162.
A person who during twenty years with the inten-
- ↑ This is nearly equivalent to what is called in English law “the act of God.”