Law Amending Certain Articles of the Code of Obligations and Contracts

Type

Law

Date of the text

21/12/1954

Official Gazette

published in 1954

Status today

In force as of 27/08/2026

Articles

2

What it provides

This law amends provisions of the Code of Obligations on co-ownership and partition, capping agreed continuation of joint ownership at five years and setting rules for dividing jointly owned property by agreement or by court action, including judicial approval where a minor or absent co-owner is involved.

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1954. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.