Military Resources Military Cross-Reference Index Political Resources Miscellaneous Resources NapoleonSeries.org is proud to be the work of its many readers. If you would like to submit reference materials, please contact NapoleonSeries.org . Of The Different Modes Of Acquiring Property Decreed the 19th of April, 1803. Decreed 13th of February 1804. Promulgated the 23d of the same Month.
Personal arrest takes place, in a civil matter, for stellionate.
Against notaries, attornies, and officers, for the restoration of documents entrusted to them, and of money received by them for their clients, in the course of their duties. Those who by a judgment given on petition, and passed with the authority of a matter decided, have been sentenced to quit an estate, and who refuse to obey, may by a second judgment be personally arrested, fifteen days after notice of the first judgment personally given or at the party's domicil. If the estate or the inheritance be distant more than five myriameters from the domicil of the party sentenced, there shall be added to the fifteen days one day for five myriameters. Personal arrest cannot be directed against farmers for the arrears of the rent of rural property, if it have not been formally stipulated in the act of lease. Nevertheless, farmers and under-tenants may be personally arrested, on failure by them to produce, at the end of the lease, the beasts in cheptel, seeds, and agricultural instruments, which were entrusted to them, unless they can prove that the deficiency in such articles does not proceed from their act.