Article 1079
The testament-partage produces the effects of a partition. Its beneficiaries may not waive their right to rely on the will to claim a new partition of the estate.
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The testament-partage produces the effects of a partition. Its beneficiaries may not waive their right to rely on the will to claim a new partition of the estate.
Where the courts seised are not of the same level, a plea of lis pendens or connexity may only be raised before the court of the lower level.
If there are several accepting executors, one of them may act in default of the others, unless the testator has provided otherwise or divided their office.
It may be provided in a gift that a person will be called upon to receive what remains of the gift or bequest made to a first donee on the death of the latter.
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.
A beneficiary who has not received a lot equal to his share of the reserve may bring an action for reduction in accordance with article 1077-2.
The lawyers shall be heard after the report if they so request. The parties may also be heard after being authorised to do so by the chairman.
A spouse who files an application for divorce may, in any event, and even on appeal, substitute for it an application for legal separation. Reverse substitution is prohibited.
The testator may empower the executor to take possession of all or part of the furniture of the estate and to sell it if it is necessary to discharge the particular legacies within the limit of the av…
…the penalty incurred is equal to or greater than three years' imprisonment, the investigating judge may, where the needs of the information so require, order the interception, recording and transcript…
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