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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Qualifications for succession.

Article 728

A successor who is affected by a cause of unworthiness provided for in articles 726 and 727, where the deceased, subsequent to the facts and to his knowledge of them, has specified, by an express decl…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions.

Article 769

The option is indivisible. However, a person who has more than one succession claim to the same estate has a separate right of option for each of them.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: How easements are extinguished

Article 704

…s already elapsed to make it presumed that the easement has been extinguished, as stated in Article 707.

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French Civil CodeIn force
General provisions

Article 714

There are things which belong to no one and whose use is common to all. Police laws regulate the manner of their enjoyment.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Opening of estates, universal title and seisin

Article 721

Inheritances devolve in accordance with the law when the deceased has not disposed of his property by gifts. They may devolve by gifts from the deceased to the extent compatible with the hereditary re…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions.

Article 776

The option exercised has retroactive effect to the day on which the estate is opened.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Pure and simple acceptance of the succession.

Article 784

Acts that are purely conservatory or supervisory and acts of provisional administration may be performed without entailing acceptance of the succession, if the successor has not taken the title or cap…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: How easements are extinguished

Article 709

If the inheritance in favour of which the easement is established belongs to several par undivided, the enjoyment of one prevents prescription in respect of all.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Qualifications for succession.

Article 725

To succeed, a person must exist at the time the succession is opened or, having already been conceived, be born viable. A person whose absence is presumed under article 112.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter III: Heirs.

Article 731

The succession devolves by law to the parents and spouse successors of the deceased under the conditions defined below.

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