Paper's abstract

Christophe Meyer, The body of alimony
In the French Civil Code, the legal alimony duty was created by mixing rules pertaining to the state of persons, to the maintenance obligation - civil or natural - and to the "status" of things. An overlapping of categories which operates a fusion of the civil law trinity of persons, things and obligation, building up an institution where the internal relationship between the three notion can be observed. They seem to be based on a fourth notion, which serves as a common conceptual basis : the legal body.

Key Words : alimony, legal body
t. 48, 2004 : p. 455-468

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