French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Residual gifts.
Article 1060
The first grantee is not required to account for its management to the disposing party or its heirs.
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The first grantee is not required to account for its management to the disposing party or its heirs.
Any testamentary disposition made under a condition dependent on an uncertain event, and such that, in the intention of the testator, the disposition is to be executed only so far as the event will or…
Where a person who has bequeathed the ownership of an immovable, has subsequently increased it by acquisitions, such acquisitions, even if contiguous, shall not, without a new provision, be deemed to…
Subsequent wills, which do not expressly revoke the previous ones, shall only annul those provisions contained therein which are found to be incompatible with the new ones or which are contrary.
All gifts made to spouses by their marriage contract shall, when the donor's estate is opened, be reducible to the portion which the law allowed him to dispose of.
The formalities to which the various wills are subject by the provisions of this and the preceding section must be observed on pain of invalidity.
It will still be deemed to have been made jointly when a thing which is not capable of being divided without deterioration has been given by the same act to several persons, even separately.
Any testamentary disposition shall lapse if the person in whose favour it is made has not survived the testator.
The legacy shall lapse if the thing bequeathed has totally perished during the testator's life. The same shall apply if it has perished since his death, through no fault or act of the heir, although t…
If this claim is based on a serious insult to the memory of the testator, it must be brought within one year, starting from the day of the offence.
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