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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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.
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…
A gift of future property made between spouses during the marriage is always revocable. A gift of present property that takes effect during the marriage made between spouses is revocable only under th…
…n their absence, to the universal legatees and, in their absence, to the heirs called in the order set out in the title "Of successions"..
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…
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.
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.
Where, at the death of the testator, there are heirs to whom a share of his property is reserved by law, these heirs are seized ipso jure, by his death, of all the property of the succession; and the…
The heirs of the testator, or other debtors of a legacy, shall be personally liable to pay it, each in proportion to the share and portion from which they benefit in the estate. They shall be mortgage…
Where the testator has bequeathed the thing of another, the bequest shall be void, whether or not the testator knew that it did not belong to him.
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