{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:article:1254","workId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:en","title":"Modification Due to Unforeseen Circumstances","number":"1254","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1254/","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, by reason of unforeseen circumstances, it has become permanently or temporarily impossible to exercise the servitude or where the interest of the holder of the right of use of the dominant tenement has been considerably diminished, the competent Court, upon the demand of the holder of the right of use of the dominant tenement, may modify the contents of a servitude in such a manner that the possibility of exercise or the original interest be restored, provided that this change can be imposed upon the holder of the right of use of the servient tenement according to criteria of reasonableness and equity.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1254/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":347,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/347/?article=1254&paragraph=lead#article-1254-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."}