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Article 393

Des Qualités requises pour Succéder

Succession Law
Titre XV: Des Successions (On Successions)
Chapitre II: Des Qualités requises pour Succéder (On the Qualifications Required to Inherit)

Sont exclus des successions, comme indignes de succéder, 1°. Celui qui serait condamné pour avoir donné ou tenté de donner la mort au défunt; 2°. Celui qui a porté contre le défunt une accusation capitale, jugée calomnieuse; 3°. L'héritier majeur qui, instruit du meurtre du défunt, ne l'aura pas dénoncé à la justice.

Life lesson: Three grounds of unworthiness: kill or attempt to kill the deceased, slander him with a capital accusation, or know of his murder and stay silent. The unworthy heir takes nothing.
Notes: Indignity (indignité): three grounds of exclusion: (1) murder/attempted murder of deceased; (2) slanderous capital accusation; (3) failure to denounce known murder (adult heirs only). Cf. Code Napoléon Art. 727.
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