{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:article:1540","workId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:en","title":"Undue Payment","number":"1540","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1540/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK V - OBLIGATIONS","title":"TITLE I - CONTRACTS IN GENERAL","chapter":"Chapter 9. - Extinction of Obligations","section":"Section 5. - Prescription of Rights of Action","paragraph":null},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"A right of action for undue payment is prescribed by five years from the beginning of the day following the one on which the creditor has become aware of both the existence of his claim and the person of the receiver of the undue payment, and, in any event, by twenty years from the day the claim has arisen.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1540/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":434,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/434/?article=1540&paragraph=lead#article-1540-lead"}]}],"caution":"This is the 2015 English-language edition attributed in its front matter to the Ministry of Justice. Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation, later changes, or whether the text is currently in force. Nine passages are incomplete in the available scan and are identified where they occur."}