French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Exceptions to the rule that gifts inter vivos are irrevocable.
Article 959
Gifts in favour of marriage will not be revocable on grounds of ingratitude.
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Gifts in favour of marriage will not be revocable on grounds of ingratitude.
Any person may dispose of by will either under the title of institution of heirship, or under the title of legacy, or under any other name appropriate to manifest his will.
The donation duly accepted shall be perfected by the consent of the parties alone; and the ownership of the objects donated shall be transferred to the donee, without the need for any other tradition.
The gift inter vivos may include only the present property of the donor; if it includes future property, it will be void in this respect.
In the event that the donor has reserved the freedom to dispose of an instrument included in the donation or of a fixed sum out of the donated property, if he dies without having disposed of it, the s…
The four preceding articles do not apply to donations referred to in Chapters VIII and IX of this Title.
The effect of the right of return is to cancel all disposals of the property and rights given, and to cause such property and rights to revert to the donor, free of all encumbrances and mortgages, exc…
A donation inter vivos may only be revoked on the grounds of ingratitude in the following cases: 1° If the donee has made an attempt on the donor's life; 2° If he has been guilty of abuse, offences or…
A will may be holographic or made by public deed or in the mystic form.
…a foreign country may make his testamentary dispositions by private deed, as prescribed in Article 970, or by authentic instrument, with the forms customary in the place where this instrument is made…
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