{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:article:1661","workId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:en","title":"Necessity","number":"1661","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1661/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK V - OBLIGATIONS","title":"TITLE II - NON-CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS","chapter":"Chapter 1. - Extra-Contractual Liability","section":"Section 4. - Mode and Extent of Compensation","paragraph":"A. - Pecuniary Compensation for Material Injury"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"The Court fixes equitably the amount of compensation due from a person who, without committing a fault, caused injury to the property of another in order to save himself or a third person from an imminent injury or danger.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1661/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":468,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/468/?article=1661&paragraph=lead#article-1661-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."}