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Article 701

Des Dispositions entre Epoux, soit par Contrat de mariage, soit pendant le mariage

Succession Law
Titre XVI: Des Donations entre-vifs et des Testamens (On Inter Vivos Donations and Testaments)
Chapitre VIII: Des Dispositions entre Epoux, soit par Contrat de mariage, soit pendant le mariage (On Dispositions Between Spouses, by Marriage Contract or During Marriage)

Excepté pour le cas de la survenance d'enfant, les donations entre époux, pendant le mariage, quoique qualifiées entre-vifs, pourront toujours être révoquées; et la femme, pour la révocation de celle qu'elle aurait faite, n'aura besoin ni de l'autorisation de son mari, ni de l'autorisation de la justice.

Life lesson: Gifts between spouses during marriage are always revocable — the wife needs no one's permission to take hers back.
Notes: Inter-spousal gifts during marriage: always revocable (unlike ordinary inter vivos donations). Wife may revoke without marital or judicial authorization. Exception: survenance d'enfans. Cf. Code Napoléon Art. 1096.
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