Legal capacity to accept letting

Article 1599 – Legal capacity to accept letting Letting may be accepted by all those who have capacity to contract, save for the following exceptions: 1. It is forbidden to the magistrates, judges, and other public servants taken on hire or on tenancy, by themselves or through an intermediary person, any assets put for auction by the Court, judicature or office, where they are occupying the post of judges, exercise jurisdiction or hold office. 2. It is forbidden to the members of any public establishment to take on hire or tenancy, for self or through an intermediary person, any assets belonging to the said establishment. § Sole paragraph - Intermediary persons are those who have been declared in article 1567, sole paragraph.