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CODES OF CIVIL LAW
articles 1678 and 1680 Cc, according to which the judge must appoint three experts who by majority count should determine the just price of an item. According to Troplong this provision proves an improvement in comparison with the law of the Ancien Régime in which the parties assigned their own experts.180 Thus, similar to the ALR, the Code civil adopted an objective price determination carried out by experts.
7.3.4.4 Extension to lease
In keeping with Pothier and Domat's views, the remedy for lesion beyond moiety was restricted to sales of immovables only.
use of witnesses was Leyser, Meditationes, vol. 3, no. 205. 5, pp. 578-579; cf. Bijnkershoek who demonstrates that the Dutch Supreme Court used both experts and witnesses. See Blom, Urteilsbegründungen, p. 240. See 5.3.3.1. In the jurisprudence of the Castilian Royal Chancery the use of witnessess seems to be the usual approach, although cases in which the estimation is left to experts also appear. See section 3.4.3.1.
180 Art. 1678 Cc: Cette preuve ne pourra se faire que par un rapport de trois experts, qui seront tenus de dresser un seul procès-verbal commun, et de ne former qu'un seul avis à la pluralité des voix; art. 1680 Cc: Les trois experts seront nommés d'office, à moins que les parties ne se soient accordées pour les nommer tous les trois conjointement; Troplong, De la vente, vol. 2, no. 834, p. 334.
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