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Showing 421–430 of 12238 articles for “Art. 7 févr. 1996”
If, among the co-owners, there is one against whom prescription could not run, such as a minor, he shall have retained the right of all the others.
Ownership of property is acquired and transmitted by succession, by gift inter vivos or testamentary, and by the effect of obligations.
The heirs designated by law are seized by operation of law of the property, rights and actions of the deceased. The legatees and universal donees are seized under the conditions laid down in Title II…
Where the father and mother survive and the deceased has no descendants but brothers and sisters or their descendants, one quarter of the estate devolves to each of the father and mother and the remai…
The sequence of degrees forms the line; a direct line is the sequence of degrees between persons who are descended from each other; a collateral line is the sequence of degrees between persons who are…
When the estate devolves to ascendants, it is divided equally between those of the paternal branch and those of the maternal branch.
In each branch succeeds, to the exclusion of all others, the collateral who is in the nearest degree. Collaterals in the same degree succeed by head. In the absence of a collateral in one branch, coll…
Representation is a legal fiction whose effect is to call to succession the representatives to the rights of the principal.
The heir may not be forced to opt before the expiry of a period of four months from the opening of the succession. At the expiry of this period, he may be summoned, by extrajudicial act, to take sides…
When the limitation period referred to in Article 780 has expired, the person claiming to be an heir must prove that he or the person or persons from whom he derives that status accepted the successio…
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