Cap. 16 Art. 1472Where no notice has been given.

In default of such notice, or until such notice is given -

(a) the debtor may not set up the assignment against his creditor, and if he pays the debt to him he is thereby discharged;

(b) if the creditor, after having assigned the debt to one person, makes a second assignment thereof to another person who is in good faith, such other person, if he has given notice of the assignment made in his favour, shall be preferred to the former assignee;

(c) if the creditors of the assignor shall sue out a garnishee order attaching the sum due in the hands of the debtor, they shall be preferred to the assignee, even though they have become creditors only after the assignment;

(d) the debtor is entitled to set off any sum which may become due to him by the assignor; but the assignee may not set off the debt assigned to him against any sum owing by him to the debtor.