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1. Does Article 1149’s five-year residual period apply where another Code provision fixes the particular action’s period?
2. A properly characterized defamation damages action is filed eighteen months after accrual. Article 1147 applies, with n…
3. A damages action is genuinely founded on a written contract, with no applicable special limitation. Does the presence o…
4. A creditor’s action has an applicable unexpired prescriptive period. Before it lapses, the debtor makes a legally suffi…
5. A creditor was actually prevented by a proved fortuitous event from enforcing a right for a specified interval. Article…
6. A claimant labels a properly characterized defamation action an ordinary injury-to-rights case to obtain four years. Ex…
7. Distinguish a creditor’s written demand from the debtor’s written acknowledgment under Article 1155.
8. Explain Article 1154’s treatment of a period during which a fortuitous event actually prevented enforcement.