Chapter II.

 

Of the Effects of Laws.

 

§5.  No law shall have any retrospective operation.

 

§6.  The laws are obligatory upon all persons, whether subjects of this kingdom, or citizens or subjects of any foreign State, while within the limits of this kingdom, except so far as exception is made by the laws of nations in respect to Ambassadors or others.  The property of all such persons, while such property is within the territorial jurisdiction of this kingdom, is also subject to the laws.

 

§7.  Private agreements shall have no effect to contravene any law which concerns public order or good morals.  But individuals may, in all cases in which it is not expressly or impliedly prohibited, renounce what the law has established in their favor, when such renunciation does not affect the rights of others, and is not contrary to the public good.

 

§8.  Whatever is done in contravention of a prohibitory law is void, although the nullity be not formally directed.

 

 

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