{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:article:1240","workId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:en","title":"Interpretation of Doubtful Clauses","number":"1240","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1240/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK IV - PROPERTY","title":"TITLE V - USUFRUCT AND OTHER RIGHTS IN REM","chapter":"Chapter 2. - Servitudes","section":null,"paragraph":null},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"Where it is doubtful whether a provision in an instrument creates a servitude running with the immovable property or imposes a personal obligation on the owner of such property, such equivocal provision shall be deemed to impose a personal obligation and not to create a servitude.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1240/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":343,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/343/?article=1240&paragraph=lead#article-1240-lead"}]}],"caution":"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."}