The servitude shall be extinguished by merger of the qualities of owner of the dominant tenement and owner of the servient tenement.
Civil Code
2015 English source edition · Current applicability not established.
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Article 1257
Merger · Preserved transcription; page attribution imported from the source collection. Verify against the original.
If, at the time when one and the same person becomes owner of both the dominant and servient tenement, a third person leases one of the properties or has another personal right of use in it, the servitude is only extinguished by merger at the extinction of this right.