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Chapter 1. - Personality and the Rights Inherent to Personality

Art. 1Principle
Art. 2Child Merely Conceived
Art. 3Date of Conception
Art. 4Proof of Life or Death of Person. - 1. Burden of Proof
Art. 52. Persons Dead Simultaneously
Art. 6Proof of Identity
Art. 7Effect of Personality
Art. 8Limitations upon Rights of Personality and Liberties
Art. 9Cessation of Unlawful Interference
Art. 10Restriction on Freedom and Searches
Art. 11Freedom of Residence
Art. 12Inviolability of Domicile
Art. 13Freedom of Thought
Art. 14Religion
Art. 15Freedom of Action
Art. 16Right to Keep Silent
Art. 17Marriage and Divorce
Art. 18Integrity of Human Body
Art. 19Revocability of Acts Relative Thereto
Art. 20Principle
Art. 21Restriction
Art. 22Refusal to Accept Examination
Art. 23Professional Secrecy
Art. 24Will of Deceased
Art. 25Will Not Expressed
Art. 26Principle
Art. 27Exception
Art. 28Sanction
Art. 29Rights of the Family
Art. 30Inviolability of Correspondence

Civil Code · English · 2015

Article 1

Principle

Every human being is the subject of rights and duties from his birth to his death.

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This is the 2015 English-language edition attributed in its front matter to the Ministry of Justice. Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation, later changes, or whether the text is currently in force. Nine passages are incomplete in the available scan and are identified where they occur.

Source title: Civil Code of the State of Eritrea
Edition: 2015
Issuing body: Ministry of Justice, State of Eritrea
Repository: FAOLEX
Language: English
Source pages: 18

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