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Showing 2021–2030 of 63585 articles for “Art. L. 631-7 et L. 631-7-1”
Where the father and mother predeceased the deceased and the deceased leaves no descendants, the brothers and sisters of the deceased or their descendants succeed to the deceased, to the exclusion of…
A successor who is affected by a cause of unworthiness provided for in articles 726 and 727, where the deceased, subsequent to the facts and to his knowledge of them, has specified, by an express decl…
To succeed, a person must exist at the time the succession is opened or, having already been conceived, be born viable. A person whose absence is presumed under article 112.
…e unworthy of succession and, as such, excluded from the estate: 1° Anyone who is sentenced, as perpetrator or accomplice, to a criminal penalty for having wilfully caused or attempted to cause the de…
In the absence of an heir of the first two orders, the succession devolves to ascendants other than the father and mother.
Where the father and mother survive and the deceased has no descendants but brothers and sisters or their descendants, one quarter of the estate devolves to each of the father and mother and the remai…
The following may be declared unworthy to succeed:1° He who is sentenced, as perpetrator or accomplice, to a correctional penalty for having voluntarily given or attempted to give death to the decease…
Children or their descendants succeed to their father and mother or other ascendants, without distinction as to sex or primogeniture, even if they come from different unions.
An heir excluded from the succession on grounds of unworthiness is obliged to return all the fruits and income he has enjoyed since the opening of the succession.
Investigated persons, defendants and accused persons subject to pre-trial detention shall undergo it in a prison or an establishment for sentenced persons, under the conditions set out in the provisio…
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