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Article 638

Des Dispositions testamentaires

Succession Law
Titre XVI: Des Donations entre-vifs et des Testamens (On Inter Vivos Donations and Testaments)
Chapitre IV: Des Dispositions testamentaires (On Testamentary Dispositions)

Tout legs fait, soit au profit d'un créancier, soit en faveur d'un domestique du testateur, ne sera pas réputé avoir été fait en compensation de la créance de l'un ni des gages de l'autre.

Life lesson: A legacy to your creditor or your servant is not assumed to be payment of their debt or wages — it is a gift above and beyond.
Notes: Legacy ≠ compensation: legacy to creditor not in satisfaction of debt; legacy to servant not in lieu of wages. Independent gifts. Cf. Code Napoléon Art. 1023.
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