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85 Tul. L. Rev. 1 (2010-2011)

handle is hein.journals/tulr85 and id is 3 raw text is: TULANE LAW REVIEW VOL. 85 NOVEMBER 2010 No. 1 The French Revision of Prescription: A Model for Louisiana? Benjamin West Janke* Frangois-Xavier Licari** I. INTRODUCTION. ............................... .....2 II. REMARKABLE CONVERGENCE OF THE FAULTS OF THE FORMER LAW OF PRESCRIPTION IN FRANCE AND THE FAULTS OF LOUISIANA'S PRESENT LAW OF PRESCRIPTION..... 4 A. Duration: Too Short, Too Long .................6 B. Too Many Tine Periods ................ .....11 C Contract/Dehct Distinction ....................14 D. The Problems with Peremption and Other Modes ofExtinctive Prescription... ..................17 E. Modification by Agreement and Increased Contractual Freedom........................25 F The UncodifiedLaw of Contra Non Valentem......29 III. THE CALL FOR REVISION ..................................29 IV. THE MAIN INNOVATIVE TRENDS OF THE FRENCH REVISION .......................................31 © 2010 Benjamin West Janke and Frangois-Xavier Licari. * Attorney, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC (New Orleans); J.D. & B.C.L. (Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University); B.S. & M.Ed. (Vanderbilt University). ** Dr. en droit (Universit6 de Strasbourg); Dr. iuris (Universitiit des Saarlandes); Maitre de confhrences (Associate Professor), Universit6 de Metz, France. All translations, unless otherwise indicated, are our own. The original text is retained where appropriate. 1

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