{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:article:993","workId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:en","title":"Compensation","number":"993","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/993/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK IV - PROPERTY","title":"TITLE I - KINDS OF PROPERTY AND ITS APPROPRIATION","chapter":"Chapter 2. - De Facto Relationships Concerning Property","section":"Section 1. - Possession","paragraph":"B. - Acquisition in Good Faith"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"p1","number":"1","text":"The possessor of a stolen cultural object required to return it shall be entitled, at the time of its restitution, to payment of fair and reasonable compensation provided that the possessor neither knew nor ought reasonably to have known that the object was stolen and can prove that he exercised due diligence when acquiring the object.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/993/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":270,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/270/?article=993&paragraph=p1#article-993-p1"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"Without prejudice to the right of the possessor to compensation referred to in the preceding paragraph, reasonable efforts shall be made to have the person who transferred the cultural object to the possessor, or any prior transferor, pay the compensation.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/993/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":270,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/270/?article=993&paragraph=p2#article-993-p2"}]},{"id":"p3","number":"3","text":"Payment of compensation to the possessor by the claimant, when this is required, shall be without prejudice to the right of the claimant to recover it from any other person.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/993/#p3","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":270,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/270/?article=993&paragraph=p3#article-993-p3"}]},{"id":"p4","number":"4","text":"In determining whether the possessor exercised due diligence, regard shall be had to all the circumstances of the acquisition, including the character of the parties, the price paid, whether the possessor consulted any reasonably accessible register of stolen cultural objects, and any other relevant information and documentation which he could reasonably have obtained, and whether the possessor consulted accessible agencies or took any other step that a reasonable person would have taken in the circumstances.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/993/#p4","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":270,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/270/?article=993&paragraph=p4#article-993-p4"}]},{"id":"p5","number":"5","text":"The possessor shall not be in a more favorable position than the person from whom he acquired the cultural object by inheritance or otherwise gratuitously.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/993/#p5","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":270,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/270/?article=993&paragraph=p5#article-993-p5"}]}],"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."}