When a litigated credit is sold, the debtor shall have the right to extinguish the same by reimbursing the assignee for the price the later paid for it, the judicial costs incurred by him, and the interest on the price from the day on which the same was paid.\nA credit shall be considered as litigated from the day the suit relating to the same has been answered.\nThe debtor may make use of his right within nine (9) days, counted from the day the assignee should demand payment of him.\nHistory —Civil Code, 1930, § 1425.
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