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Article 657

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, du vivant du testateur, la chose léguée a péri en entier, le legs deviendra sans effet. Il sera pareillement sans effet, si depuis le décès du testateur, la chose a péri sans qu'il y ait du fait ni de la faute de l'héritier, même mis en retard pour la délivrer, comme elle eût péri entre les mains du légataire.

Life lesson: The thing perishes, and the legacy dies with it — whether during the testator's life or after, unless the heir's fault caused the loss.
Notes: Perished thing: legacy void if thing destroyed entirely (during testator's life or after, without heir's fault). Even default in delivery → no liability if thing would have perished with legatee. Cf. Code Napoléon Art. 1042.
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