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Civil Act — Article 164 (Short extinctive prescription for one year)

민법 제164조

The extinctive prescription of claims mentioned below shall become complete if not exercised for a period of one year:

1. The right to claim fees of hotels, restaurants, assembly rooms for hire, places of lodging and entertainment, refreshment, hire of rooms, admission fees, and the price of articles of consumption, as well as for substituted donation for another person;

2. Claims of rent for the hire of clothing, bedding, funeral necessaries, and other movables;

3. Claims of wages of manual workers and public performers and the price of Articles supplied to them;

4. Claims of school proprietors, keepers of boarding schools, and teachers, for the education, clothing, food, and lodging of pupils, and apprentices.

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