{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:article:1544","workId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:en","title":"Beginning of Period","number":"1544","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1544/","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":"Unless otherwise provided for by law, the prescription period of a right of action for the performance of an obligation to, give or to do begins to run at the beginning of the day following the one on which the immediate performance can be claimed.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1544/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":435,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/435/?article=1544&paragraph=lead#article-1544-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."}