French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1 : General rules on the form of wills.
Article 969
A will may be holographic or made by public deed or in the mystic form.
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A will may be holographic or made by public deed or in the mystic form.
…tor. Where the testator is unable to express himself in French, the dictation and reading may be performed by an interpreter chosen by the testator from the national list of legal experts drawn up by…
The will must be signed by the witnesses and by the notary.
Those who cannot read or cannot read will not be able to make dispositions in the form of a mystical will.
It will be similarly null and void if it was made on the condition of discharging debts or charges other than those existing at the time of the gift or which would be expressed either in the deed of g…
…e cases provided for in this article or in the preceding articles, a sealed will in which the legal formalities have not been observed, and which is null as such, shall nevertheless be valid as a holo…
All deeds involving gifts inter vivos shall be executed before notaries in the ordinary form of contracts; and minutes thereof shall remain, under penalty of nullity.
In the event of a formal defect, an inter vivos gift cannot be confirmed. It must be redone in the legal form.After the death of the donor, the confirmation or voluntary execution of a donation by the…
Where there is a donation of property subject to mortgages, publication of the deeds containing the donation and acceptance, as well as notification of the acceptance which would have taken place by s…
This will must be signed by the testator in the presence of the witnesses and the notary; if the testator declares that he does not know how to sign or cannot sign, express mention shall be made in th…
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