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  1. Obligations in favour of physicians, midwives and apothecaries for attendance, services or medicines;
  2. Obligations in favour of gishi,[1] master-carpenters and contractors for their work; but the prescription is computed only from the time when the work is finished.

171.

The responsibility of lawyers, notaries and executive officers of courts as to papers which they have received in their capacity as such, ceases after three years, in the ease of lawyers from the time when the business was finished, in the case of notaries and executive officers from the time when they have performed their duties.

172.

Obligations in favour of lawyers, notaries or executive officers relating to their functions are extinguished, if they are not exercised for two years from the time when the business out of which the obligation arose was finished; but an obligation arising from any particular fact occuring in the course of such business is extinguished after five years, even though such period of two years has not yet elapsed.

173.

In the following cases obligations are extinguished, if they are not exercised for two years:—

  1. ↑ Gishi 技師 means a scientific expert in the erection of buildings or other structures, such as an engineer or architect.
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