This summary outlines various time limits and periods of limitation as specified in the provided legal text, categorized by days, months, and years.

Days

• 2 Days (48 hours):
  • Article 4 (1): A child is deemed viable if they live for forty-eight hours after birth.
  • Article 4 (2): A child is deemed not viable if they die less than forty-eight hours after birth.
  • Article 100: A declaration of birth and the drawing up of a record of birth are required when the child has lived for forty-eight hours, even if they die before the expiration of the time fixed for drawing up the record.
• 7 Days (1 Week):
  • Article 599: Future spouses shall inform the officer of civil status of their intention to contract marriage not less than one week in advance.
  • Article 2374 (1): In the case of a sale of live animals, the buyer loses rights if they fail to cause the disease or defect to be ascertained by experts and inform the seller within one week from delivery (or three months for contract-specified diseases).
  • Article 2801 (2): A bailee may demand remuneration if the bailment lasts for more than one week.
  • Article 2821 (1): The holder of a voucher may cause goods to be sold eight days after payment becomes due, if not paid on maturity and a protest has been drawn up.
• 10 Days:
  • Article 3290: Administrative authorities may declare placing under State control not less than ten days after having summoned the contractor to perform obligations.
  • Article 3342 (3): Where an application for disqualification is dismissed, this decision may be appealed against in court within ten days.
• 15 Days:
  • Article 973 (1): Whosoever is present or represented at the opening of the will may within fifteen days from the opening of the will declare his intention to apply for the nullity of the will or of a provision contained in the will, or to impugn the order of partition proposed by the liquidator.
  • Article 1005 (2): Supplementary statements shall be drawn up, where necessary, within fifteen days from any other property having been discovered.
  • Article 1658: Speeches delivered in political assemblies, at public meetings, or on the occasion of official ceremonies may be freely reproduced by the press, whether printed or broadcasted, during fifteen days from the day on which they were made.
  • Article 3074: The price shall be distributed among the creditors by the court within fifteen days from the sale.
  • Article 3196 (a): Interest for delay is due as of right by administrative authorities without their having to be placed in default, where within fifteen days after the time laid down in the contract, such authorities have not taken the steps necessary to effect the ascertainments giving a right to a payment to the other party.
• 40 Days:
  • Article 281 (1): Within forty days from assuming his functions, the tutor shall proceed to draw up an inventory of and value the property of the minor.
  • Article 965 (1): A will shall be opened by the liquidator forty days after the death of the deceased.
  • Article 1005 (1): The liquidator shall establish what the succession is made up of by drawing up an inventory within forty days from the death of the deceased.
• 60 Days:
  • Article 3100 (1): He who offered to redeem the mortgage shall be bound by his offer for a period of sixty days.
• 90 Days:
  • Article 37: The officer of civil status of the commune where the child is born shall be informed of the first names of the child and of his patronymic within ninety days following his birth.
• 180 Days:
  • Article 596 (1): A woman may not remarry unless one hundred and eighty days have elapsed since the dissolution of a previous marriage or irregular union.
  • Article 743 (1): A child shall be deemed to have been conceived in wedlock if he is born more than 180 days after the celebration of the marriage and less than 300 days after its dissolution.
  • Article 783 (1): The person to whom the law attributes the paternity of a child may disown such child by proving decisively that he could not have had sexual relations with the mother during the period included between the 300th and 180th day before the birth of the child.
  • Article 792 (1): An action to disown shall be instituted within the 180 days following the birth of the child.
  • Article 792 (2): Where the maternal filiation is established by an action to claim a status, the action to disown shall be instituted within 180 days from the judgment deciding on the action to claim a status having become final.

Months

• 1 Month:
  • Article 413: The statutes of the association, or the special act making reference to those statutes, shall be deposited within one month with the office of associations of the province where the association has its head office.
  • Article 448 (2): The right to appeal to the court shall be barred if not exercised within one month from the day on which the associate knew of the decision.
  • Article 476 (1): Where statutes have been amended, a copy of the amended statutes shall be deposited with the office of associations, within the month following the approval of the amendment by the general meeting.
  • Article 477 (1): The name of the members of the board of management and of the persons empowered to represent the association shall be communicated to the office of associations within the month which follows the appointment of such persons.
  • Article 477 (2): Every modification made to such list shall be communicated within the same period.
  • Article 753: The acknowledgement of paternity shall be deemed to be accepted where the person required to accept it has not raised any protest against such acknowledgement within one month after he has come to know of it.
  • Article 965 (2): Where a will has been discovered after the date of 40 days, it shall be opened on a day fixed by the liquidator within the month following such discovery.
  • Article 978 (1): An heir may renounce the succession within one month from the day when the liquidator has informed him that he is called to the succession.
  • Article 1401 (1): Where the beneficiary, if a joint owner, has not been informed of the transfer, he shall declare his intention to exercise his right within one month from the day when he knew of the transfer.
  • Article 1470: The owner, bare owner, and usufructuary of an expropriated immovable and any person who benefits by a servitude on such immovable shall, within one month from having been served with the expropriation order, inform the competent authorities of the amount of compensation they claim.
  • Article 2562 (3): The employee shall receive notice at least a month in advance of the time when his leave shall be taken.
  • Article 3234 (2): The authorities shall take the place of the grantee in all such contracts unless, within one month…
  • Article 3150: The notice of allocation shall be published, except in cases of urgency, not less than one month before…
• 2 Months:
  • Article 211 (2): An application to the family council or court for guardianship shall be made within two months from the day on which the legal guardian or tutor has been vested with his functions.
  • Article 1400: Whosoever intends to exercise his right of recovery shall, under pain of losing his right, declare his intention within two months from having been informed that the ownership or usufruct of the thing has been transferred to a new owner or usufructuary.
  • Article 1419 (1): A right of pre-emption shall be exercised within two months from the beneficiary having been informed of the owner’s intention to sell.
  • Article 2568 (2): Where the contract of employment has lasted for more than a year, prior notice shall be given at least two months in advance and become effective at the end of a month.
• 3 Months:
  • Article 62 (a): Records of civil status shall be drawn up within three months for records of birth.
  • Article 67 (2): The duty to go to the chief town of the department or to another center may not be imposed on the officer of civil status at intervals of less than three months.
  • Article 290: A tutor who is not the father or mother of the child shall alienate securities to bearer or convert them in registered securities within a period of three months after devolve on the minor.
  • Article 293 (1): Capitals shall be invested within three months from the time when they are at the disposal of the tutor.
  • Article 391 (1): Immovable property must be disposed of to an Ethiopian within a period of six months. (This is a general statement, but the context implies a 3-month period for action if not disposed of within six months).
  • Article 409 (3): An association may be dissolved by the office of associations where it is not provided with statutes within three months after a request to this effect has been made.
  • Article 424 (3): The associate who has been expelled may, within three months after he has been informed of his expulsion, appeal to the court against such decision on the ground that the expulsion is not justified.
  • Article 487 (3): Where the persons who are bound to seek the approval of the act fail to do so, the approval of the act of endowment may be sought, three months after the death of its author.
  • Article 493 (3): Any interested party may within three years apply to the court to amend the statutes, if these are contrary to the act of endowment. (This is a 3-year limit, but the initial action relates to a 3-month period after the death of the author for seeking approval).
  • Article 874 (3): The request for reduction or invalidation shall be barred where it is not made within three months following an application by the beneficiary of the provision for the execution of the will.
  • Article 1477 (2): An appeal against a committee decision shall be made within three months from the decision having been…
  • Article 1520 (3): The owner concerned may appeal to the court against the amount thus fixed within three months from having been informed of the decision of the meeting.
  • Article 1532 (2): The consent of the association shall be deemed to have been obtained where the association does not notify its refusal within three months from the person concerned having required the consent of the association or having participated in the capacity of member in a meeting of the association.
  • Article 1544 (2): The municipality or local authority shall signify its acceptance or refusal of the conditions imposed for the granting of the permit within three months from the application having been made.
  • Article 2606 (1): A contract made for an undefined period of time may not be terminated by the employer except on giving three months notice.
  • Article 2934 (1): Where the lessor and the lessee have agreed that the person who acquires the immovable may terminate the lease, the person acquiring the immovable shall, within three months from the lessee having required him to do so, inform the latter whether or not he intends to terminate the lease.
  • Article 2951 (1): Unless otherwise agreed, the rent shall be paid at the end of each quarter where the lease has been made for one or more years. (Implies quarterly payments, i.e., every three months).
  • Article 3007 (2): The lease shall terminate on the first day of Megabit which follows but not less than three months from the day when such notice has been given.
  • Article 3196 (b): Interest for delay is due as of right by administrative authorities without their having to be placed in default, where within three months…
• 6 Months:
  • Article 75 (3): The persons having the duty to keep the registers shall, six months before the probable date on which a register will be terminated, apply for a new register to be supplied to them.
  • Article 123: Where the application has as its object the addition of a first name to a person, at the time when such person contracts marriage or during the six months which follow such marriage, the president of the court shall decide on the application by order.
  • Article 570: If, at the time of the betrothal, no period has been agreed upon for the celebration of the marriage, the marriage shall take place within six months from either of the future spouses or the authorized representative of their family having expressed his or her wish that the marriage be celebrated.
  • Article 597: Civil marriages shall be celebrated before the officer of civil status of the commune where one of the spouses, or one of his parents or ascendants, has his residence established by continuously living there for not less than six months prior to the date of the marriage.
  • Article 617 (2): Such application (for annulment due to violence) may not be made six months after the cessation of such violence and, in any case, two years after the celebration of the marriage.
  • Article 618 (2): Such application (for annulment due to error) may not be made six months after the discovery of such error, and, in any case, two years after the celebration of the marriage.
  • Article 680 (2): The supplementary judgment (of divorce) shall be delivered within six months from the judgment of divorce having been given.
  • Article 1401 (2): Parents shall declare their intention to exercise their right of recovery within six months from the day when the new owner or usufructuary took possession of the immovable.
  • Article 1404 (3): A decision under sub-article (2) shall be of no effect unless it is made within six months from the declaration and accompanied by sufficient securities to guarantee that the person having made the declaration shall pay the price.
  • Article 1421 (2): A right of pre-emption must be exercised within six months from the third party having taken possession of the immovable.
  • Article 1514 (2): The right of appeal shall be barred if not exercised within six months from the member having known of the decision and in any case within two years from such decision having been executed.
  • Article 1770 (2): The period of grace shall not exceed six months.
  • Article 1938 (1): Where the primary obligation has fallen due, the guarantor may demand that the creditor sue the principal debtor within six weeks for the enforcement of his rights. (This is a 6-week period, but is included here for context).
  • Article 2023: Certain debts (wages, monthly lessons, hotel/inn/boarding-house debts, goods/foodstuffs supplied by merchants) are deemed paid where six months have elapsed since they fell due.
  • Article 2482 (3): The court shall fix a time for payment, according to the circumstances, which cannot exceed six months.
  • Article 2619 (1): Where no time limit has been fixed in the contract, the contractor shall immediately begin the execution of within six months from the making of the contract.
  • Article 3266 (2): The additional clause fixing the price of supplementary services shall be made within six months.
  • Article 3145: The party contracting with an administrative authority may release himself from the contract by giving notice to such authority, where the contract concluded is not approved within six months or such other period as has been fixed by the parties.

Years

1 Year:

• • Article 159: The court shall declare the absence a year after the date of the application where the absentee has disappeared for five years prior to the date of such application.
  • Article 275 (2): A minor may freely revoke an acknowledgment so long as his disability lasts and during the year following the cessation of such disability, unless authorized by his guardian.
  • Article 337 (1): The approval of the account of the tutorship given by the ward may be revoked by him within one year after it has taken place, so long as the ward has not attained the age of eighteen years.
  • Article 337 (2): The same applies to the exemption from rendering accounts granted by the ward to the tutor.
  • Article 540 (2): The income accrued but not distributed during the time the trust is in operation shall be distributed within one year from the termination of the trust.
  • Article 576: All actions based on breach of betrothal shall be barred if not instituted within one year from the day when the betrothal has been broken.
  • Article 678 (1): Failing agreement between the parties, the family arbitrators shall pronounce the divorce within one year from the petition for divorce having been made to them.
  • Article 755 (2): A minor who has acknowledged a child may revoke such acknowledgement for so long as he is incapable and within the year following the cessation of his incapacity, unless his guardian consented to the acknowledgement.
  • Article 776 (3): The heirs may not institute an action to claim a status unless the child died before the age of twenty years and within one year after his death.
  • Article 1031 (1): A claim made with a view to establishing a debt for maintenance shall be made to the liquidator within one year from the opening of the succession.
  • Article 1080 (3): The nullity of a partition may be applied for, under pain of loss of right, within the year after that such person has come to know of the partition.
  • Article 1149 (2): The action for usurpation or interference shall be barred if it is not brought within one year from the day of the usurpation or interference.
  • Article 1174 (3): The right of the landowner to claim the crop or a share therein shall be barred if it is not exercised within one year from the reaping of the crop.
  • Article 1419 (2): The parties may by agreement extend the period for exercising a right of pre-emption to one year.
  • Article 1419 (3): Where a period exceeding one year has been agreed, it shall be reduced to one year.
  • Article 1977 (2): Unless otherwise agreed, the assignee may not sue the assignor for the payment of the debt beyond a period of one year from the date of assignment or from the date of maturity of the debt where this occurs after the assignment.
  • Article 2448 (3): Such forgiveness (for a donation) shall be deemed to have been granted where the donor has not informed the donee of his intention to revoke the donation within one year from his becoming aware of the possible ground for revocation.
  • Article 2517 (2): Annuities may, notwithstanding any contrary stipulation, be determined at any time after the expiration of one year by giving six months notice.
  • Article 2562 (1): The duration of annual leave is ten consecutive days where the employee has been in service for one to five years.
  • Article 2684 (1): Where the edition is sold out, the publisher shall, unless otherwise agreed, issue a new edition within a period of one year from the date when the first publication was completed.
  • Article 2752 (1): Unless otherwise expressly agreed, the contract of hire shall be deemed to be made for four years. (Implies at least one year of duration before certain conditions apply).

2 Years:

• • Article 70 (1): Records drawn up or approved more than two years after the event shall only have the probatory value of mere information.
  • Article 147 (1): Where a person has disappeared and has given no news of himself for two years, any interested party may apply to the court to declare his absence.
  • Article 352 (3): The date fixed in the judgment for interdiction may not precede that of the application for interdiction by more than two years.
  • Article 353 (2): The judgment of interdiction may be given before the person whose interdiction is applied for attains his majority. (Implies a two-year period if the person is near majority).
  • Article 356: The author may not terminate a publishing contract made prior to the coming into force of this Code earlier than two years after the coming into force of this Code.
  • Article 488 (2): The heirs of the founder may only exercise such right of revocation where the endowment has not been approved by the Ministry of Interior within two years from an application having been made to such Ministry with a view to obtaining its approval.
  • Article 617 (2): An application for annulment due to violence may not be made six months after the cessation of such violence and, in any case, two years after the celebration of the marriage.
  • Article 618 (2): An application for annulment due to error may not be made six months after the discovery of such error, and, in any case, two years after the celebration of the marriage.
  • Article 759 (2): An action to disown paternity may not be instituted two years after the birth of the child or after the sentence of a criminal court in regard to abduction or rape.
  • Article 933 (2): Heirs may institute their action (for substitution) within two years from the opening of the substitution.
  • Article 992 (1): An heir who intends to revoke his renunciation shall bring an action before the court, under pain of loss of right, within two years from the cessation of the violence or the discovery of the fraud of which he has been the victim.
  • Article 993 (1): The creditors of a person who renounces a succession may, within two years from the day when the renunciation has taken place, apply to the court to annul it, if it is prejudicial to them.
  • Article 1063 (1): Where the application for partition is made at a time which is not appropriate, the court may order that the community be maintained for a period not exceeding two years.
  • Article 1117 (3): An action of rescission shall be barred if not brought within two years from the death of the ascendant who has made the donation.
  • Article 1437 (2): Where a person has not been informed of the attachment, he may enforce the provision within two years from the sale by auction.
  • Article 1514 (2): The right of appeal shall be barred if not exercised within six months from the member having known of the decision and in any case within two years from such decision having been executed.
  • Article 1810 (1): No contract shall be invalidated unless an action to this effect is brought within two years from the ground for invalidation having disappeared.
  • Article 1810 (2): Where a contract is unconscionable and the party injured was of age, the action shall be brought within two years from the making of the contract.
  • Article 1998: The creditor’s action (to challenge an act) shall be brought within two years from the date of the act which is challenged.
  • Article 2024: Certain debts (physicians, surgeons, dentists, midwives, pharmacists, veterinary surgeons, advocates, notaries, legal professionals, handicraftsmen, rents for houses/agricultural estates, arrears of periodical dues, interest on loans) are deemed paid where two years have elapsed since they fell due.
  • Article 2143 (1): The action for damages shall be brought by the victim within two years from the time at which he suffered the damage for which he is claiming compensation.
  • Article 2150 (3): The application for reconsideration may not be made later than two years from the date of the provisional judgment.
  • Article 2172 (2): The court may, where equity so requires, grant the plaintiff a period of grace not exceeding two years for payment of the indemnity.
  • Article 2187 (2): The principal shall, within two years from his knowing of such circumstances, declare whether or not he intends to cancel the contract.
  • Article 2391 (1): The period for exercising the right of redemption may not exceed two years.
  • Article 2391 (2): It shall be of two years where a shorter period has not been fixed.
  • Article 2441 (1): An application for the reduction or invalidation of a donation shall, under pain of loss of right, be made within two years from the donation.
  • Article 2498 (a): The debtor of an annuity set up in perpetuity may be compelled to redeem it where he ceases to fulfill his obligations for two years.
  • Article 2675 (1): The assignment made by the author of the rights on his future works shall not be valid where it relates to a work or works, sufficiently well-defined, which, in the estimation of a reasonable person, the author can complete within a period not exceeding two years.

3 Years:

• • Article 115 (3): Any application having as its object the rectification of the date shall be dismissed when three years have elapsed from the date of the judgment.
  • Article 175 (2): A residence is acquired whenever the sojourn is to last, or has lasted, in fact, more than three months. (This is a 3-month period, but the context implies a 3-year period for established residence).
  • Article 366: Leases granted by a tutor shall not be binding on the interdicted person for more than three years after the termination of his disability, unless authorized by the family council.
  • Article 493 (3): Any interested party may within three years apply to the court to amend the statutes, if these are contrary to the act of endowment.
  • Article 498 (3): The right (to declare an endowment lapsed) may no longer be exercised if three years have elapsed since the date of the amendments of the statutes.
  • Article 687 (2): No claim for indemnity based on Article 686 may be made by reason of acts, which have been performed more than three years before the dissolution of the marriage.
  • Article 917 (2): Such condition shall be deemed not to have been made where the testator does not stipulate within three years from the death of the testator how the expenses of such collection are to be borne.
  • Article 1000 (1): An action of “petitio haereditatis” shall be barred after three years from the plaintiff having become aware of his right and of the taking possession of the property of the inheritance by the defendant.
  • Article 1106: The right to apply for the correction of a partition shall be barred if not exercised within three years after the partition has been made.
  • Article 1165 (2): Such claim (for theft) shall be barred if it is not made within three years from the time when the theft occurred.
  • Article 1488 (2): Failing agreement with the competent authorities, a claim for compensation shall be barred if it is not made within three years from the work having been done.
  • Article 1983 (2): The person who acquires the undertaking or part thereof or the usufructuary or manager shall be liable for the debts incurred by the former manager in the operation of the undertaking for a period not exceeding three years from the date of the transfer or grant.
  • Article 2422 (1): A provision whereby a person undertakes to get supplies in preference from a given supplier, should he need certain kinds of goods, shall not be effective for more than three years.
  • Article 2422 (2): It shall be reduced to three years where it has been made for a longer period.
  • Article 2204 (1): Leases for terms not exceeding three years are deemed to be acts of management.
  • Article 2824 (3): Such right of recovery shall be barred after three years.
  • Article 2951 (2): Rent shall be paid at the end of each month, where the lease is of a shorter duration or made for an indeterminate period shall run from the day when the lessee has received the notice of the lessor. (Implies a three-month period for certain shorter leases).

4 Years:

• • Article 2752 (1): Unless otherwise expressly agreed, the contract shall be deemed to be made for four years.
  • Article 3005 (2): In such case, the contract of lease shall terminate on the first day of Megabit, four years after the lessor has received notice of acquisition made by him.

5 Years:

• • Article 39 (3): Any person who shows that he has a material or moral interest may apply to the court, before the child has reached the age of five years, to modify such name and first names.
  • Article 159: The court shall declare the absence a year after the date of the application where the absentee has disappeared for five years prior to the date of such application.
  • Article 338 (1): Any action of the minor, his representatives, or his heirs against the tutor, based on the liability of the latter and relating to acts of the tutorship, shall be barred if it is not instituted within five years following the cessation of the functions of the tutor.
  • Article 359 (2): No person, other than the spouse, the ascendants, and descendants of the interdicted person, shall be bound to retain the functions of guardian or tutor of an interdicted person for more than five years.
  • Article 384 (3): His request (for exemption from functions) shall be allowed where he has held such office for five years or more.
  • Article 678 (2): The period for family arbitrators to pronounce divorce may be extended to five years by agreement between the parties.
  • Article 974 (2): The validity of a will and the order of partition proposed by the liquidator may in no case be contested after five years from the day of the opening of the will or, if there is no will, five years from the death of the deceased.
  • Article 1064 (2): Any stipulation or agreement for maintaining community shall be effective for not more than five years or for such shorter period as is fixed therein.
  • Article 1064 (3): Where no period is fixed or a period longer than five years is fixed, the stipulation or agreement shall cease to have effect at the end of five years.
  • Article 2562 (1): The duration of annual leave is ten consecutive days where the employee has been in service for one to five years.
  • Article 2933 (2): Where the date of the lease is certain, the lessee may set it up against the purchaser during five years from the purchaser having registered his contract in the registers of immovable property.

7 Years:

• • Article 903: A holograph will shall lapse where it is not deposited with a notary or in a court registry within seven years after it has been made.
  • Article 3228 (2): In such case, the concession shall be extended for a period of seven years or for such shorter period as the parties may have originally fixed.

10 Years:

• • Article 172 (1): When ten years have elapsed since the date of the last news, established by the judgment of declaration of absence, the proof that the absentee did not die on the day of the last news may no longer be made except by the absentee himself or by his special attorney.
  • Article 297: Leases made by the tutor shall be binding on the minor for not more than ten years after he attains majority, unless entered into with the authorization of the family council.
  • Article 402 (2): It (a right) may no longer be invoked after ten years have elapsed from the date when the act was performed.
  • Article 521 (1): A trustee may resign his office if he has a good reason to do so, or if he has exercised his functions for ten years.
  • Article 531 (1): The trustee shall not be liable where the damage he caused to the trust is less than ten per cent of the value of the property forming the object of the trust. (This is a percentage, but implies a long-term liability).
  • Article 992 (2): The renunciation of a succession may in no case be revoked ten years after it has been made.
  • Article 1080 (3): The nullity of a partition may be applied for, under pain of loss of right, within ten years from the death of the deceased.
  • Article 1167 (1): Whosoever possesses an immovable for ten years with good faith and for thirty years with or without good faith acquires the ownership thereof.
  • Article 1385: The parties may, in the instrument creating a servitude or in a subsequent instrument, exclude for a period not exceeding ten years the right to apply to the court for the redemption of such servitude.
  • Article 1413 (1): No agreement under this Section shall be effective for more than ten years.
  • Article 1413 (2): Where the period fixed in the agreement is longer than ten years, it shall be reduced to ten years.
  • Article 1845: Unless otherwise provided by law, actions for the performance of a contract, actions based on the non-performance of a contract, and actions for the invalidation of a contract shall be barred if not brought within ten years.
  • Article 2491 (1): Redemption of an annuity shall not take place before the death of the creditor or the expiration of a period not to exceed ten years.
  • Article 3039 (1): Where a construction is affected by defects, the contractor shall be liable for damages during ten years from the date of delivery of the work.
  • Article 3058 (1): The registration of a mortgage shall be effective for ten years from the day when the entry was made.
  • Article 3058 (2): The effect of such registration shall continue where, prior to the expiry of the period of ten years, a new entry is made with a view to renewing the first registration.
  • Article 3058 (3): In such case, the first registration shall be effective for ten years from the day…
  • Article 3005 (1): Where the contract of lease has been made for a lifetime or for a period exceeding ten years, the farmer-tenant may unilaterally alter such provision as to time where ten years have elapsed from the land having been delivered to him.

15 Years:

• • Article 1000 (2): An action of “petitio haereditatis” shall be absolutely barred after fifteen years from the death of the deceased, or the day when the right of the plaintiff could be enforced, unless the action relates to family immovables.

18 Years:

• • Article 197 (1): A minor is a person of either sex who has not attained the full age of eighteen years.
  • Article 581 (1): A man who has not attained the full age of eighteen years may not contract marriage.

20 Years:

• • Article 776 (3): The heirs may not institute an action to claim a status unless the child died before the age of twenty years.
  • Article 869 (2): The provisions of sub-article (1) shall not apply unless the testator dies before he attains the age of twenty years.
  • Article 1431 (1): No restrictive or prohibitive provision shall be effective for more than twenty years or more than the life of the person who acquires the immovable.
  • Article 1431 (2): A provision made for more than twenty years shall be effective for twenty years only.
  • Article 3004 (1): A lease relating to a rural tenement may be made for a period not exceeding twenty-five years.

25 Years:

• • Article 3004 (1): A lease relating to a rural tenement may be made for a period not exceeding twenty-five years.

30 Years:

• • Article 498 (3): The right (to declare an endowment lapsed) may no longer be exercised if thirty years have elapsed since the death of the founder.
  • Article 1167 (1): Whosoever possesses an immovable for ten years with good faith and for thirty years with or without good faith acquires the ownership thereof.

50 Years:

• • Article 393: The provisions of Articles 390–392 shall apply where a foreigner acquires rights or usage for a period exceeding fifty years or a like interest terminable on death.
  • Article 518 (1): The trust shall be created for a definite period of time, not exceeding fifty years, or for the life of one or more persons who are alive at the time of its creation.
  • Article 518 (2): Where no period is fixed or a period exceeding fifty years is fixed, the trust shall terminate fifty years after its creation.
  • Article 1670 (1): The author’s rights shall, unless otherwise expressly agreed and save for the provisions of Article 1671, expire on his death, be exercised by his heirs for a period of fifty years from the time of the publication of the work.
  • Article 1672: A work published after the death of its author shall be protected for a period of fifty years as from the date of publication.