Civil Code (Cap. 16)

Civil Code (Cap. 16), article 540

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540. A possessor in good faith acquires the fruits of the thing possessed, even though such thing be an inheritance; and he is not bound to restore except such fruits as he shall have collected, or, by the exercise of the diligence of a bonus paterfamilias , could have collected, after a judicial demand: Provided that he shall not be bound to restore the price of unplucked or uncut fruits, recei ved by him before the judicial demand, even though, at the time of such demand, the fruits may be as yet unplucked from the tr ees or uncut from the ground. Possessor in bad faith.

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