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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 8 : Revocation and lapse of wills.

Article 1037

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.

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Chapter VIII: Gifts made by marriage contract to the spouses and to unborn children of the marriage.

Article 1082

The father and mother, other ascendants, collateral relatives of the spouses, and even strangers, may, by marriage contract, dispose of all or part of the property which they leave on the day of their…

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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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Chapter IX: Arrangements between spouses, either by marriage contract or during marriage.

Article 1096

…953 to 958. Gifts made between spouses of present or future property are not revoked by the occurrence of children.

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Section 6: Specific legacies.

Article 1020

If, before the will or since, the thing bequeathed has been mortgaged for a debt of the succession, or even for the debt of a third party, or if it is encumbered by a usufruct, the person who must pay…

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Section 6: Specific legacies.

Article 1024

The legatee by particular title shall not be liable for the debts of the succession, except for the reduction of the legacy as aforesaid, and except for the mortgage action of the creditors.

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Section 7: Executors.

Article 1029

…ry of the estate to be made, in the manner provided for in Article 789, whether or not in the presence of the heirs, after having duly summoned them. He may cause the furniture to be sold if there are…

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Section 2: Residual gifts.

Article 1059

…he possibility of disposing inter vivos or mortis causa of the property that has been given in advance of the share of the estate.

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Chapter VIII: Gifts made by marriage contract to the spouses and to unborn children of the marriage.

Article 1089

Gifts made to one of the spouses, under the terms of articles 1082, 1084 and 1086 above, will lapse if the donor survives the donee spouse and his or her posterity.

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Section 4: Universal legacies.

Article 1004

…y is reserved by law, these heirs are seized ipso jure, by his death, of all the property of the succession; and the universal legatee is bound to ask them for the delivery of the property included in…

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