1. Introductory Text

2. 5-year negative prescription

   1. 1. Obligations to pay damages and delictual obligations

   2. 2. Obligations related to contract

   3. 3. Statutory obligations

   4. 4. Effect of fraud or error on computation of prescriptive period

   5. 5. Start point of prescriptive period for obligations to pay damages

3. 20-year negative prescription

   1. 6. Obligations: 20-year prescriptive period and extension

   2. 7. Property rights: 20-year prescriptive period and extension

   3. 8. Start point of prescriptive period for obligations to pay damages

4. Miscellaneous

   1. 9. Saving for other statutory provisions about prescription or limitation

   2. 10. Definition of “relevant claim”

   3. 11. Prescriptive periods under sections 6 and 8A: interruption by relevant claim

   4. 12. Definition of “final disposal” of relevant claim

   5. 13. Restrictions on contracting out

   6. 14. Burden of proof

5. General

   1. 15. Ancillary provision

   2. 16. Consequential modifications

   3. 17. Commencement

   4. 18. Short title