The notice expressing the intention by one party to submit a dispute to arbitration is also considered to be a judicial application, provided it describes the subject matter of the dispute to be submitted and is notified in accordance with the rules and time limits applicable to judicial applications.Any demand by a creditor to share in a distribution with other creditors also interrupts prescription.Interruption does not occur if the demand is dismissed, or if the proceedings are discontinued or perempted.Where the demand of a party is dismissed without a decision having been made on the merits of the matter and where, on the date of the judgment, the prescriptive period has expired or will expire in less than three months, the demanding party has an additional period of three months from notification of the judgment in which to assert his right.The same applies to arbitration; the three-month period then runs from the time the award is made, from the end of the arbitrators’ mandate, or from the notification of the judgment annulling the award.An interruption resulting from a judicial application continues until the judgment has become final or, as the case may be, until a transaction has intervened between the parties.The interruption has effect with regard to all the parties with respect to any right arising from the same source.An interruption which results from the bringing of a class action benefits all the members of the group who have not requested their exclusion from the group.Acknowledgement of a right, as well as renunciation of the benefit of the time elapsed, interrupts prescription.A judicial application or any other act of interruption against the principal debtor or against a surety interrupts prescription with regard to both.Interruption with regard to one of the creditors or debtors of a solidary or indivisible obligation has effect with regard to the others.Interruption with regard to one of the joint creditors or debtors of a divisible obligation has no effect with regard to the others.Interruption with regard to one of the coheirs of a solidary creditor or debtor of a divisible obligation has effect, with regard to the other solidary creditors or debtors, only as regards the portion of that heir.After its interruption, prescription begins to run again for the same period.Prescription does not run against persons if it is impossible in fact for them to act by themselves or to be represented by others.Prescription does not run against a child yet unborn.Nor does it run against a minor or a person of full age under curatorship or tutorship with respect to remedies they may have against their representative or against the person entrusted with their custody, or with respect to remedies they may have against any person for bodily injury resulting from an act which could constitute a criminal offence.Married or civil union spouses do not prescribe against each other during their community of life.Prescription does not run against an heir with respect to his claims against the succession.An application for leave to bring a class action suspends prescription in favour of all the members of the group for whose benefit it is made or, as the case may be, in favour of the group described in the judgment granting the application.The suspension lasts until the application for leave is dismissed, the judgment granting the application for leave is set aside or the authorization granted by the judgment is declared lapsed; however, a member requesting to be excluded from the action or who is excluded therefrom by the description of the group made by the judgment on the application for leave, a judgment in the course of the proceeding or the judgment on the action ceases to benefit from the suspension of prescription.In the case of a judgment, however, prescription runs again only when the judgment is no longer susceptible of appeal.Suspension of prescription of solidary claims and indivisible claims produces its effects with respect to creditors and debtors and their heirs in accordance with the rules applicable to interruption of prescription of such claims.Acquisitive prescription is a means of acquiring a right of ownership, or one of its dismemberments, through the effect of possession.Acquisitive prescription requires possession conforming to the conditions set out in the Book on Property.A successor by particular title may join to his possession that of his predecessors in order to complete prescription.A successor by universal title or by general title continues the possession of his predecessor.Detention cannot serve as the basis for prescription, even if it extends beyond the term agreed upon.A precarious title may be interverted by a title originating from a third person or by an act performed by the holder which is incompatible with precarious holding.Interversion renders the possession effective for prescription, from the time the owner learns of the new title or of the act of the holder.Third persons may prescribe against the owner of property during its dismemberment or when it is held precariously.The institute and his successors by universal title or by general title do not prescribe against the substitute before the opening of the substitution.The period for acquisitive prescription is 10 years, except as otherwise determined by law.A person who has for 10 years possessed an immovable as its owner may acquire the ownership of it only upon a judicial application.The possessor in good faith of movable property acquires the ownership of it by three years running from the dispossession of the owner.Until the expiry of that period, the owner may revendicate the movable property, unless it has been acquired under judicial authority.To prescribe, a subsequent acquirer need have been in good faith only at the time of the acquisition, even where his effective possession began only after that time.The same applies where there is joinder of possession, with respect to each previous acquirer.Extinctive prescription is a means of extinguishing a right owing to its non-use or of pleading a peremptory exception to an action.The period for extinctive prescription is 10 years, except as otherwise determined by law.Actions to enforce immovable real rights are prescribed by 10 years.However, an action to retain or obtain possession of an immovable may be brought only within one year of the disturbance or dispossession.A right resulting from a judgment is prescribed by 10 years if it is not exercised.An action to enforce a personal right or movable real right is prescribed by three years, if the prescriptive period is not otherwise determined.Where the right of action arises from moral, bodily or material injury appearing progressively or tardily, the period runs from the day the injury appears for the first time.An action for damages for bodily injury resulting from an act which could constitute a criminal offence is prescribed by 10 years from the date the victim becomes aware that the injury suffered is attributable to that act.