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Article 436
De l'Acceptation et de la Répudiation des Successions
Titre XV:
Des Successions
(On Successions)
Chapitre V:
De l'Acceptation et de la Répudiation des Successions
(On the Acceptance and Repudiation of Successions)
L'effet de l'acceptation remonte au jour de l'ouverture de la succession.
Life lesson:
Acceptance is retroactive — it reaches back to the moment of death, as if the heir had always been the owner.
Notes:
Retroactive effect: acceptance relates back to date of succession opening (death). Heir deemed owner from moment of death. Cf. Code Napoléon Art. 777.