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Article 640

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)

Si la qualité de la chose léguée n'est point précisée, l'héritier ne pourra être contraint à la délivrer de première qualité; mais le légataire pourra aussi la refuser, si elle lui est offerte de la qualité la plus inférieure.

Life lesson: Unspecified quality? The heir need not give the best, but the legatee need not accept the worst. The middle ground prevails.
Notes: Unspecified quality rule: heir not obliged to deliver first quality; legatee not obliged to accept lowest. Median quality presumed. Cf. Code Napoléon Art. 1022.
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