Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

Section III   The obligations of the lender

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    1673.   The lender cannot take back the thing, or disturb the borrower in the proper use of it, until after the expiration of the term agreed upon, or, if there be no agreement, until after the thing has been used for the purpose for which it was borrowed; this rule however being subject to the exception stated in the next following article.

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    1674.   If before the expiration of the term, or, if no term have been agreed upon, before the borrower has completed his or her use of the thing, there occur to the lender a pressing and unforeseen need of it, the Court may, according to the circumstances, compel the borrower to restore it to him or her.

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    1675.   If during the continuance of the loan the borrower be obliged, for the preservation of the thing lent, to incur any extraordinary and necessary expense, of so urgent a nature that he or she cannot notify the lender, the latter is bound to reimburse it to him or her.

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    1676.   When the thing lent has defects which cause injury to the person using it, the lender is responsible if he or she knew the defects and did not make them known to the borrower.