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Article 500

Du Partage et des Rapports

Succession Law
Titre XV: Des Successions (On Successions)
Chapitre VI: Du Partage et des Rapports (On Partition and Collation)

Le fils venant de son chef à la succession du donateur, n'est pas tenu de rapporter le don fait à son père, quoiqu'il ait accepté la succession; mais s'il n'y vient que par représentation, il doit le rapport de ce qui a été donné à son père, même en répudiant la succession.

Life lesson: Inherit in your own right? You need not collate your father's gift. Inherit by representation? You must — even if you renounced your father's estate.
Notes: Own right vs. representation: son inheriting de son chef → no collation of father's gift. By representation → must collate father's gift (even if father's own succession repudiated). Cf. Code Napoléon Art. 848.
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