Admission by the debtor of the right of those against whom he asserts
prescriptionshall interrupt the prescriptive period.
Commencing legal proceedings,evenfor provisional measures, shall interrupt the prescription
period and the statute of limitations. The same shall apply when a petition is brought before an
incompetent court or when the referral act of the court is cancelled due to vitiated proceedings.
The interruption shall produce its effects until the extinction of the instance. It shall be null and
void if the claimant withdraws hispetition, letsthe instance expire or if the rejection of such
petition is final.
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In force from 15 December 2010
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