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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: The right to temporary accommodation and the right to lifetime accommodation

Article 766

The successor spouse and the heirs may, by agreement, convert the rights of habitation and use into a life annuity or a capital sum. If there is among the successors party to the agreement a minor or…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions.

Article 779

The personal creditors of a person who refrains from accepting a succession or who renounces a succession to the prejudice of their rights may be authorised in court to accept the succession in their…

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

Article 783

Any assignment, whether free of charge or for consideration, made by an heir of all or part of his rights in the succession entails pure and simple acceptance. The same applies to: 1° A renunciation,…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Qualifications for succession.

Article 726

The following are unworthy of succession and, as such, excluded from the estate: 1° Anyone who is sentenced, as perpetrator or accomplice, to a criminal penalty for having wilfully caused or attempted…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Orders of heirs.

Article 739

In the absence of an heir of the first two orders, the succession devolves to ascendants other than the father and mother.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Division into paternal and maternal branches.

Article 748

In each branch succeeds, to the exclusion of all others, the ascendant who is in the nearest degree. Ascendants in the same degree succeed by head. In the absence of an ascendant in one branch, ascend…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Rights of the owner of the land to which the easement is owed

Article 700

If the inheritance for which the easement was established comes to be divided, the easement remains due for each portion, without, however, the condition of the land subject to it being aggravated. Th…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: How easements are extinguished

Article 710

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.

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French Civil CodeIn force
General provisions

Article 711

Ownership of property is acquired and transmitted by succession, by gift inter vivos or testamentary, and by the effect of obligations.

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

Article 724

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…

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