{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:article:1618","workId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:en","title":"Witnesses","number":"1618","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1618/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK V - OBLIGATIONS","title":"TITLE II - NON-CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS","chapter":"Chapter 1. - Extra-Contractual Liability","section":"Section 1. - Liability Based On Fault.","paragraph":"Paragraph 2. - Special Cases"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"Witnesses who testify to the occurrence or non-occurrence of a given event or to the existence or non-existence of a given fact shall be liable to persons having acted on the faith of such statements, where such statements are false.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1618/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":456,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/456/?article=1618&paragraph=lead#article-1618-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."}