French Civil CodeIn force
Section 8 : Revocation and lapse of wills.
Article 1039
Any testamentary disposition shall lapse if the person in whose favour it is made has not survived the testator.
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Any testamentary disposition shall lapse if the person in whose favour it is made has not survived the testator.
…eir, although the heir was put in delay in delivering it, when it should also have perished in the hands of the legatee.
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.
…cy is made to several jointly. The legacy shall be deemed to be made jointly when it is made by one and the same disposition and the testator has not assigned the share of each of the co-legatees in t…
…ficiary, the right to opt for the conclusion of a contract whose essential elements are determined, and for the formation of which only the consent of the beneficiary is lacking. Revocation of the pro…
A revocation made in a later will shall have full effect, even though this new act remains unenforced by the incapacity of the instituted heir or legatee, or by their refusal to receive.
The condition which, in the intention of the testator, merely suspends the execution of the disposition, will not prevent the instituted heir, or the legatee, from having an acquired right transmissib…
The same causes which, according to article 954 and the first two provisions of article 955, will authorise the application for revocation of inter vivos gifts, will be admitted for the application fo…
…revocation of the legacy for all that has been alienated, even if the subsequent alienation is null and void, and the object has reverted to the testator.
Entrepreneurs of public carriages by land and water, and those of public carriages, must keep a register of the money, effects and packages with which they are entrusted.
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