Article 1556

The power to execute forcibly a judicial or arbitral decision is prescribed by twenty years from the beginning of the day following the decision or, if conditions have been attached to execution, the fulfillment of which does not depend on the will of the person who has obtained the decision, from the beginning of the day following the one on which these conditions have been fulfilled.

Where, before the completion of the prescription period, a legal recourse or action is instituted by one of the parties to attack the decision to be executed, the period does not begin to run until the beginning of the day following the one on which the proceedings relating thereto have been terminated.

Payments to be made annually or more frequently pursuant to the decision are prescribed by five years.

Except for interruption or extension, the prescription of judicial orders for interest, penalties, forfeitures and other accessory judicial orders takes place no later than the prescription of the power to execute forcibly the principal judicial order.