{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:article:1543","workId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:en","title":"Prescription of Principal Obligation","number":"1543","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1543/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK V - OBLIGATIONS","title":"TITLE I - CONTRACTS IN GENERAL","chapter":"Chapter 9. - Extinction of Obligations","section":"Section 5. - Prescription of Rights of Action","paragraph":null},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"Rights of action for failure in performance, for payment of legal or conventional interest or for the delivery of fruits are, save interruption or extension, prescribed no later than the right of action for the performance of the principal obligation, or, where the failure is susceptible of correction, no later than the right of action to claim correction of the failure.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1543/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":435,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/435/?article=1543&paragraph=lead#article-1543-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."}