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Article 405

Des divers Ordres des Successions

Succession Law
Titre XV: Des Successions (On Successions)
Chapitre III: Des divers Ordres des Successions (On the Various Orders of Succession)

Les degrés en ligne collatérale se comptent par les générations, depuis l'un des parens jusques et non-compris l'auteur commun, et depuis celui-ci jusqu'à l'autre parent, conséquemment deux frères sont au deuxième degré, l'oncle et le neveu au troisième, et les cousins germains au quatrième, et ainsi de suite.

Life lesson: Collateral degrees: count up to the common ancestor, then down. Brothers are second degree, uncle and nephew third, first cousins fourth.
Notes: Collateral degree computation: count generations up to (not including) common ancestor, then down. Brothers = 2nd; uncle/nephew = 3rd; first cousins = 4th. Standard civil law computation. Cf. Code Napoléon Art. 738.
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