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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Residual gifts.

Article 1058

…roperty received. It obliges him to pass on the surviving property. Where the property, the subject of the residual liberality, has been alienated by the first gratified, the rights of the second bene…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IX: Arrangements between spouses, either by marriage contract or during marriage.

Article 1098

If a spouse has made to his or her spouse, within the limits of article 1094-1, a gift in property, each of the children who are not descended from both spouses shall have, as far as he or she is conc…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IX: Arrangements between spouses, either by marriage contract or during marriage.

Article 1095

…the other spouse, either by simple gift or by reciprocal gift, only with the consent and assistance of those whose consent is required for the validity of his marriage; and, with such consent, he may…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IX: Arrangements between spouses, either by marriage contract or during marriage.

Article 1099

The spouses may not give indirectly to each other beyond what is permitted by the above provisions.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IX: Arrangements between spouses, either by marriage contract or during marriage.

Article 1094

…during the marriage, may, in the event that he leaves no children or descendants, dispose in favour of the other spouse in property, of all that he could dispose of in favour of a foreigner.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IX: Arrangements between spouses, either by marriage contract or during marriage.

Article 1091

The spouses may, by marriage contract, make to each other, or one of them to the other, such gifts as they see fit, subject to the modifications hereinafter expressed.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IX: Arrangements between spouses, either by marriage contract or during marriage.

Article 1092

Any gift inter vivos of present property, made between spouses by marriage contract, shall not be deemed to have been made subject to the condition of survival of the donee, unless this condition is f…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IX: Arrangements between spouses, either by marriage contract or during marriage.

Article 1096

A gift of future property made between spouses during the marriage is always revocable. A gift of present property that takes effect during the marriage made between spouses is revocable only under th…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IX: Arrangements between spouses, either by marriage contract or during marriage.

Article 1093

A gift of property to come, or of present and future property, made between spouses by marriage contract, whether simple or reciprocal, shall be subject to the rules established by the preceding chapt…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Gift-shares made to presumptive heirs.

Article 1078

…icable to inter vivos gifts, the property given will, unless otherwise agreed, be valued on the day of the shared gift for the purposes of imputation and calculation of the reserve, provided that all…

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