{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:article:1551","workId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:en","title":"New Prescription Period","number":"1551","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1551/","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":"p1","number":"1","text":"The interruption of prescription of a right of action otherwise than by the institution of an action which is upheld starts a new prescription period as of the beginning of the following day. Where a binding opinion has been requested and obtained, the new prescription period begins to run at the beginning of the day following the one on which the binding opinion has been rendered.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1551/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":437,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/437/?article=1551&paragraph=p1#article-1551-p1"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"The new prescription period is equal to the original one but may not exceed five years. Nevertheless, the prescription is in no event completed until the time when the original period without interruption would have expired.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1551/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":437,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/437/?article=1551&paragraph=p2#article-1551-p2"}]}],"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."}