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the provisions of this law or other laws a right in the property of his debtor to receive therefrom performance of an obligation due to him in preference to other creditors.

304.

A preferential right can also be exercised against money or other things which the debtor is to receive by reason of the sale, letting or loss of the subject of the right or damage to it; but the holder of the preferential right must make a judicial seizure of such money or thing, before it is paid or delivered.

This applies to the consideration for a real right which the debtor has created in the subject of the preferential right.

305.

The provisions of Art. 296 apply correspondingly to preferential rights.


Section II.
Classes of Preferential Rights.

Subsection I.
General Preferential Rights.

306.

A person in whose favour an obligation exists based