Prescription refers to the period beyond which a legal action, civil or criminal, is no longer admissible. It is a legal method of acquiring or extinguishing rights by the simple fact of possessing them for a certain period of time.

In summary

- The main deadlines to remember (five, ten and thirty years)
- The starting points, suspension and interruption of these deadlines
- The conventional arrangement of the prescription
- Rules specific to consumer law
- Details on the limitation and foreclosure periods

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