Title 11

Unless otherwise follows from the law, from the nature of the obligation or from a juridical act, a person who is obligated towards another to give…

If a performance is enforced by the execution of an enforceable title, this shall have the same legal consequences as those of a voluntary…

If two or more creditors pursue conflicting rights to delivery in respect of a single asset, the oldest right to delivery shall prevail in their…

When someone fails to perform that which he is obliged to do, the court may, upon the claim of the person to whom the obligation is owed, authorise…

If a person is obligated towards another to perform a juridical act, the court may, unless the nature of the juridical act precludes this, upon a…

A judgment which the court has ordered shall take the place of a deed intended for the transfer of registered property or of a part of such a deed…

Upon the claim of a person immediately involved in a legal relationship, the court shall issue a declaratory judgment (verklaring van recht)…

No one is entitled to a legal action without sufficient interest.

A right of action cannot be separated from the right which it serves to protect.

The powers granted to the court in the preceding articles of this title shall also vest in arbitrators, unless the parties have agreed otherwise.

A foundation or association with full legal capacity may institute a legal action that serves to protect similar interests of other persons, insofar…

A legal person as referred to in Article 1 of Book 2 may institute a legal action that serves to protect similar interests of other persons, insofar…

An organisation or public body with its seat outside the Netherlands which is placed on the list referred to in Article 5, paragraph 1, of Directive…

To a legal action as referred to in Article 14, paragraph 1, of Regulation (EU) 2019/1150 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June…

The Court of Appeal of The Hague may, upon the petition of a foundation or association with full legal capacity which, pursuant to its articles of…

Our Minister for Legal Protection shall, upon application by a foundation or association with full legal capacity having its registered office in the…

Unless the law provides otherwise, a right of action is prescribed by the lapse of twenty years.

A right of action to demand performance of an obligation under a contract to give or to do prescribes by the lapse of five years after the…

Legal actions for the payment of interest on sums of money, life annuities, dividends, rents, farm rents, and furthermore everything that must be…

A right of action arising from undue payment prescribes by the lapse of five years after the commencement of the day following that on which the…

A right of action for compensation for damages or for payment of a stipulated penalty shall prescribe by the lapse of five years after the start of…

A right of action for the recovery of a movable object which, under the national legislation of a Member State of the European Union or of another…

A right of action to claim a movable object that has been designated as a protected cultural property under the Heritage Act (Erfgoedwet) or forms…

A right of action for the return of a movable object on the basis of Article 6.7 of the Heritage Act (Erfgoedwet) shall be barred by the lapse of…

A right of action for the protection of a trade secret as referred to in Articles 5, 6 and 9 of the Trade Secrets Protection Act (Wet bescherming…

A right of action for the dissolution of an agreement on the grounds of a failure in the performance thereof or for the rectification of a failure…

Rights of action in respect of a failure in performance, as well as those for the payment of statutory or stipulated interest and those for the…

Unless the law provides otherwise, the limitation period for a legal action for performance of an obligation to give or to do shall commence at the…

The limitation period for a right of action to terminate an unlawful situation commences at the beginning of the day following the day on which the…

The period of limitation of a legal action to claim an inheritance begins at the start of the day following the day of the death of the deceased.

The prescription of a right of action is interrupted by the bringing of a claim, as well as by any other act of legal proceedings on the part of the…

The limitation period of a right of action to demand performance of an obligation is interrupted by a written demand or by a written notification in…

Acknowledgement of the right which a legal action serves to protect interrupts the limitation period of the legal action against him who acknowledges…

By interruption of the limitation period of a right of action, other than by the institution of a claim which is followed by its being granted, a new…

If a prescription period would expire during the existence of a ground for extension or within six months after the disappearance of such a ground…

A ground for the extension of the limitation period exists:

The court may not of its own motion apply the plea of prescription.

Upon the completion of the prescription of the right of action to demand performance of an obligation, the pledge or mortgage rights serving as…

The power to enforce a judicial or arbitral decision shall be barred by prescription by the lapse of twenty years after the commencement of the day…

Articles 319-323 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the limitation period referred to in the preceding article.

Outside the field of property law, the provisions of this Title shall apply mutatis mutandis, insofar as the nature of the legal relationship…