charges.-C. N. 1781, 2272; C. C. 2267. 2263. Short limitations and prescriptions established by acts of parliament, follow the rules peculiar to them, as well in matters respecting the rights of the Crown as in those respecting the rights of all others. 2264. After renunciation or interruption, except as to prescription by ten years in favor of subsequent purchasers, prescription recommences to run for the same time as before, if there be no novation, saving the provisions of the following article.-C. C. 2255. must prove beside his own right, the defects in the possession or in the title of the possessor who claims prescription, or who, under the provision of the present article, is exempt from doing so. Prescription of corporeal moveables takes place after the lapse of three years, reckoning from the loss of possession in favor of possessors in good faith, even when the loss of possession has been occasioned by theft. This prescription is not, however, necessary to prevent revendication if the thing have 2265. Any action which is been bought in good faith in a not declared to be perempted, fair or market, or at a public and any judicial condemnation, sale, or from a trader dealing in constitutes a title which is only similar articles, nor in commerprescribed by thirty years, al- | cial matters generally; saving though the subject matter the exception contained in the thereof be sooner prescriptible. following paragraph. A judicial admission interrupts prescription, even in an action the peremption of which is declared or which is other wise insufficient to interrupt it alone; but the prescription which recommences is not thereby prolonged.-C. N. 2244, 2247, 2248; C. C. 2226, 2266. A continuation of like services, work, sales or supplies, does not hinder a prescription, if there have been no acknowledgment or other cause of interruption. C. N. 2274. 2267. In all the cases mentioned in articles 2250, 2260, 2261 and 2262 the debt is absolutely extinguished and no action can be maintained after the delay for prescription has expired.-C. N. 2275; C. C. 2188. 2268. Actual possession of a corporeal moveable, by a person as proprietor, creates a presumption of lawful title. Any party claiming such moveable, Nevertheless, so long as prescription has not been acquired, the thing lost or stolen may be revendicated, although it have been bought in good faith in the cases of the preceding paragraph; but the revendication in such cases can only take place upon reimbursing the purchaser for the price which he has paid. If the thing have been sold under the authority of law, it cannot in any case, be revendicated. The stealer or other violent clandestine possessor of a thing, and his successors by general title, are debarred from prescribing by articles 2197 and 2198,--C.N. 2279, 2280; C.C. 1488, 1489, 1490 ; C. C. P. 668. 2269. Prescriptions which the law fixes at less than thirty years, other than those in favor of subsequent purchasers of immoveables with title and in good faith, and that in case of res Nevertheless prescriptions cission of contracts mentioned | code, must be governed by the in article 2258, run against former laws. minors, idiots, madmen and insane persons, whether or not they have tutors or curators, saving their recourse against the latter.-C.N. 2278; C.C. 2232. SECTION VI. Transitory Provisions. 2270. Prescriptions begun before the promulgation of this then begun, for which, according to these laws, an immemorial duration or one of a hundred years is required, are acquired without respect to such necessity. TITLE FIRST. OF BILLS OF EXCHANGE, NOTES AND CHEQUES. Articles 2279 to 2354, both inclusive, of the Civil Code of Lower Canada have been repealed by "The Bills of Exchange Act, 1890,” except in so far as these articles, or any of them, relate to evidence in regard to bills of exchange, cheques, and promissory notes. "The Bills of Exchange Act, 1890," is reproduced in the Appendix, with all amendments to date, The following are the articles of the Civil Code that relate more or less directly to evidence in regard to bills of exchange, cheques, and promissory notes. -EDITOR. 2342. The parties in the actions or suits specified in the last preceding article may be examined under oath as provided in the title of Oblig ations. 2354. In the absence of special provisions in this section, cheques are subject to the rules concerning inland bills of exchange in so far as their application is consistent with the usage of trade. |