{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:article:1476","workId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:en","title":"Right to Claim an Equal Share","number":"1476","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1476/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK V - OBLIGATIONS","title":"TITLE I - CONTRACTS IN GENERAL","chapter":"Chapter 7. - Modalities of Obligations","section":"Section 2. - Plurality of Parties","paragraph":"Paragraph 2. - Plurality of Creditors"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"p1","number":"1","text":"Where a prestation is owed to two or more creditors, each of them has the right to claim an equal share, unless, as a result of the law, custom or a juridical act, they are entitled to unequal shares of the prestation or they have jointly a single claim.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1476/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":416,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/416/?article=1476&paragraph=p1#article-1476-p1"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"Where the prestation is indivisible or the right to it is held in solidarity, they have jointly a single claim.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1476/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":416,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/416/?article=1476&paragraph=p2#article-1476-p2"}]},{"id":"p3","number":"3","text":"The fact that the right to claim is held in solidarity cannot be invoked against the debtor where this right results from a contract he has entered into with the partners, provided that he did not know nor ought to know that the right would be held in solidarity.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1476/#p3","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":416,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/416/?article=1476&paragraph=p3#article-1476-p3"}]}],"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."}