{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:article:2610","workId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:en","title":"Definition","number":"2610","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/2610/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK VI - SPECIAL CONTRACTS","title":"TITLE V- ALEATORY CONTRACTS","chapter":"Chapter 1. - Annuities","section":null,"paragraph":null},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"A contract for the constitution of an annuity is a contract by which a person, the debtor, undertakes, gratuitously or for the alienation of a thing or the assignment of capital, to make periodical payments to another person, the annuitant, for a certain time.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/2610/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":721,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/721/?article=2610&paragraph=lead#article-2610-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."}