1. The borrower shall exercise in preserving the loaned thing the care they exercise in preserving their own property, without falling below the care of an ordinary person. 2. The borrower shall be liable for the perishing of the loaned thing if the perishing arises from a force majeure and it was within their power to prevent it by using their own property, or if they could have saved either their own property or the loaned thing and chose to save their property.
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