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Code Henry

The first comprehensive legal code of the Kingdom of Haiti, promulgated by King Henry Christophe on February 20, 1812 — a sovereign act of juridical self-determination just eight years after the world's only successful slave revolution produced an independent nation. This digital edition presents the complete Code in 3,004 articles spanning 8 laws and 67 titres — from the Loi Civile's 1,535 articles on personhood, marriage, property, and succession, to the Loi sur la Procédure Criminelle's 421 articles on investigation, confrontation, and royal clemency. Every article has been hand-extracted from 19th-century OCR, corrected, translated into English, and annotated with plain-language life lessons and scholarly notes. Browse in French, English, or Kreyòl Ayisyen. 3,004 articles · 8 laws · 3 languages · 213 years restored

3,004 articles in the Code Henry

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581
Article 581 Civil Law · Des Donations entre-vifs
Succession Law
Donations for a hospital, the parish poor, or a public establishment shall be accepted by the directors or administrators of said establishments, after obtaining royal...
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Donations for a hospital, the parish poor, or a public establishment shall be accepted by the directors or administrators of said establishments, after obtaining royal authorization.

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Article 582 Civil Law · Des Donations entre-vifs
Succession Law
The sole consent of the parties expressed in the act of donation and in that of acceptance suffices to transfer to the accepting donee the...
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The sole consent of the parties expressed in the act of donation and in that of acceptance suffices to transfer to the accepting donee the ownership of the given property, without need of any other delivery.

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Article 583 Civil Law · Des Donations entre-vifs
Succession Law
If there are mortgages on the donated property, the donation, acceptance, and notification acts, when notification was necessary, shall be transcribed in full in the...
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If there are mortgages on the donated property, the donation, acceptance, and notification acts, when notification was necessary, shall be transcribed in full in the registers kept for that purpose by the clerk of the sénéchaussée in whose jurisdiction the donated property is situated.

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Article 584 Civil Law · Des Donations entre-vifs
Succession Law
If the donation is for an adult married woman in community of property, the transcription shall be made at the husband's diligence; the wife may,...
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If the donation is for an adult married woman in community of property, the transcription shall be made at the husband's diligence; the wife may, without authorization, fulfill this formality if the husband does not; and if the wife is a minor in community, the transcription shall be made by the adult husband, or by the wife authorized by the husband, or upon his refusal, by judicial order. For donations to minors, interdicted persons, or public establishments, guardians, curators, or administrators are charged with having the transcription made.

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Article 585 Civil Law · Des Donations entre-vifs
Succession Law
Any interested party, other than those at whose diligence the acts are transcribed or their assigns, and the donor, may oppose the lack of transcription...
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Any interested party, other than those at whose diligence the acts are transcribed or their assigns, and the donor, may oppose the lack of transcription against the execution of the acts.

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Article 586 Civil Law · Des Donations entre-vifs
Succession Law
If, for lack of acceptance or transcription, donations to minors or interdicted persons could not take effect, the minors and interdicted persons shall have recourse...
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If, for lack of acceptance or transcription, donations to minors or interdicted persons could not take effect, the minors and interdicted persons shall have recourse against the guardians who neglected to fulfill these formalities, without being able to raise any other claim, even in the case of the guardians' recognized insolvency.

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587
Article 587 Civil Law · Des Donations entre-vifs
Succession Law
The donor may dispose inter vivos only of the property he possesses at the time of the donation. Any disposition including future property shall be...
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The donor may dispose inter vivos only of the property he possesses at the time of the donation. Any disposition including future property shall be null only with respect to that property.

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Article 588 Civil Law · Des Donations entre-vifs
Succession Law
When the execution of conditions inserted in an inter vivos donation can take place only by the sole will of the donor, the donation is...
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When the execution of conditions inserted in an inter vivos donation can take place only by the sole will of the donor, the donation is then null and void.

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Article 589 Civil Law · Des Donations entre-vifs
Succession Law
Equally null is any donation made subject to the discharge of debts or charges not existing at the time of the donation, or not expressed...
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Equally null is any donation made subject to the discharge of debts or charges not existing at the time of the donation, or not expressed in the donation act or in the statement annexed thereto.

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590
Article 590 Civil Law · Des Donations entre-vifs
Succession Law
The donor's reservation to dispose at will of an item included in the donation, or of a fixed sum on the donated property, accrues to...
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The donor's reservation to dispose at will of an item included in the donation, or of a fixed sum on the donated property, accrues to his heirs and belongs to them if the donor dies without having otherwise disposed of it, notwithstanding any contrary stipulation.

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Article 591 Civil Law · Des Donations entre-vifs
Succession Law
Articles 587, 588, 589, and 590 above do not apply to the donations mentioned in Chapters VII and VIII of this title.
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Articles 587, 588, 589, and 590 above do not apply to the donations mentioned in Chapters VII and VIII of this title.

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Article 592 Civil Law · Des Donations entre-vifs
Succession Law
Every donation of movable effects shall have annexed a detailed list of all effects given, signed by the donor and donee or persons accepting on...
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Every donation of movable effects shall have annexed a detailed list of all effects given, signed by the donor and donee or persons accepting on the latter's behalf; and the donation shall be valid only for the effects appraised and described in said list.

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Article 593 Civil Law · Des Donations entre-vifs
Succession Law
The donor has the right to reserve for himself or for another the enjoyment or usufruct of the movable or immovable property he gives.
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The donor has the right to reserve for himself or for another the enjoyment or usufruct of the movable or immovable property he gives.

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Article 594 Civil Law · Des Donations entre-vifs
Succession Law
In the case of reservation of usufruct of movable effects, the donated effects existing in kind shall be received in the state in which they...
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In the case of reservation of usufruct of movable effects, the donated effects existing in kind shall be received in the state in which they are found at the expiration of the usufruct, by the donee who shall have his action against the usufructuary or his heirs for objects not accounted for, according to their value fixed in the valuation statement annexed to the donation act.

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Article 595 Civil Law · Des Donations entre-vifs
Succession Law
The donor may stipulate the right to take back or recover the donated effects if he survives the donee alone, or the donee and his...
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The donor may stipulate the right to take back or recover the donated effects if he survives the donee alone, or the donee and his descendants; but this right may be stipulated only in favor of the donor alone.

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Article 596 Civil Law · Des Donations entre-vifs
Succession Law
The effect of the stipulation referred to in the preceding article shall be to annihilate, if applicable, the sale of donated property, which shall return...
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The effect of the stipulation referred to in the preceding article shall be to annihilate, if applicable, the sale of donated property, which shall return to the donor free and clear of all mortgages created by the donee, except for those arising from the dower and marital agreements, if the donee-spouse's own property is insufficient to discharge them, and only where the donation was inserted in the marriage contract establishing the rights and mortgages of the donee's spouse.

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Article 597 Civil Law · Des Donations entre-vifs
Succession Law
Non-performance of the conditions of an inter vivos donation, the donee's ingratitude, and the subsequent birth of children to the donor are the only causes...
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Non-performance of the conditions of an inter vivos donation, the donee's ingratitude, and the subsequent birth of children to the donor are the only causes for which a donation may be revoked.

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Article 598 Civil Law · Des Donations entre-vifs
Succession Law
If, for proven non-performance of conditions, the donation is revoked, the property free and clear of all mortgages shall be returned in ownership to the...
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If, for proven non-performance of conditions, the donation is revoked, the property free and clear of all mortgages shall be returned in ownership to the donor, who shall exercise against any holder of the immovables included in the donation the same rights he would exercise against the donee himself.

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Article 599 Civil Law · Des Donations entre-vifs
Succession Law
The donor may revoke an inter vivos donation for ingratitude only by proving the donee was guilty of it, either by attempt on the donor's...
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The donor may revoke an inter vivos donation for ingratitude only by proving the donee was guilty of it, either by attempt on the donor's life, or by mistreatment, cruelty, offenses, or grave insults, or by refusal to provide him maintenance.

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Article 600 Civil Law · Des Donations entre-vifs
Succession Law
The demand for revocation on grounds of ingratitude shall be made within one year from the date of the offense imputed to the donee, or...
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The demand for revocation on grounds of ingratitude shall be made within one year from the date of the offense imputed to the donee, or from the date the donor became aware of it; but the donor may in no case bring this demand against the donee's heirs, and the donor's heirs may do so only if the action was brought by the donor, or if he died within the prescribed period for bringing it.

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