Volume 141, Number 58A
Royal Gazette
24 September 2567
Section4.The text of section 193/22 of the Civil and Commercial Code shall be repealed and replaced by the following text:
“Section193/22.If the limitation governing a claim between spouses is to expire before or within one year from the day the marriage ended, the limitation shall not expire until completion of one year from the day the marriage ended.”
Section5.The text of section 1435 of the Civil and Commercial Code shall be repealed and replaced by the following text:
“Section1435.An engagement may only be entered into by two persons both of whom have already attained full eighteen years of age.”
Section6.The text of section 1437 of the Civil and Commercial Code, which has been amended by the Civil and Commercial Code Amendment Act (No 10), 2533 BE, shall be repealed and replaced by the following text:
“Section1437.An engagement shall only be valid when the person making the engagement delivers or transfers the property which is the engagement gift to the person accepting the engagement as evidence that the former will marry the latter.
Upon engagement, the engagement gift shall become subject to the rights of the person accepting the engagement.
Dower is the property which is given on the part of the person making the engagement to the father, mother, adopter, or guardian of the person accepting the engagement, as the case may be, in return for the person accepting the engagement agreeing to marry. If the marriage failed to take place because of a significant incident happening to the person accepting the engagement or a circumstance the part of the person accepting the engagement must be responsible for, which made it inappropriate or impossible for the person making the engagement to marry to the person accepting the engagement, the return of the dower may be claimed on the part of the person making the engagement.
If the engagement gift or dower has to be returned in accordance with this Chapter, the provisions of sections 412 through 418 of this Code, which deal with unjust enrichment, shall apply mutatis mutandis.”
Section7.The text of section 1439 of the Civil and Commercial Code, which has been amended by the Civil and Commercial Code Amendment Act (No 10), 2533 BE, shall be repealed and replaced by the following text:
“Section1439.Upon engagement, if either party breaches the engagement contract, the other party has the right to claim the liability for compensation. In the event that the engagement contract is breached on the part of the person accepting the engagement, the engagement gift shall also be returned to the part of the person making the engagement.
Section8.The text of section 1440 of the Civil and Commercial Code shall be repealed and replaced by the following text:
