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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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Article 641 Civil Law · Des Dispositions testamentaires
Succession Law
One or more persons may be charged with executing a testament. The testator may grant executors seisin of all or part of his movable property;...
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One or more persons may be charged with executing a testament. The testator may grant executors seisin of all or part of his movable property; but the seisin may not exceed one year and one day from the testator's death; and if not granted, executors may not demand it.

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Article 642 Civil Law · Des Dispositions testamentaires
Succession Law
If the seisin was granted by the testator, the heirs may cause it to cease by offering to deliver to the executors a sum sufficient...
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If the seisin was granted by the testator, the heirs may cause it to cease by offering to deliver to the executors a sum sufficient to discharge the movable legacies, or by proving payment of said legacies.

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Article 643 Civil Law · Des Dispositions testamentaires
Succession Law
Any person who does not have free administration of his own property may not be charged with executing a testament.
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Any person who does not have free administration of his own property may not be charged with executing a testament.

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Article 644 Civil Law · Des Dispositions testamentaires
Succession Law
A married woman in community of property may accept the execution of a testament only with her husband's consent. In case of separation of property,...
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A married woman in community of property may accept the execution of a testament only with her husband's consent. In case of separation of property, the husband's consent is necessary for the minor wife in community, or judicial authorization if the husband refuses, in conformity with Title V on Marriage.

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Article 645 Civil Law · Des Dispositions testamentaires
Succession Law
A minor, even authorized by his guardian or curator, may not serve as testamentary executor.
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A minor, even authorized by his guardian or curator, may not serve as testamentary executor.

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Article 646 Civil Law · Des Dispositions testamentaires
Succession Law
If there are minor, interdicted, or absent heirs, the testamentary executor's duty is to: have seals affixed without delay; have all succession property inventoried in...
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If there are minor, interdicted, or absent heirs, the testamentary executor's duty is to: have seals affixed without delay; have all succession property inventoried in the presence of the presumptive heir or duly summoned; require the sale of movable effects if funds are insufficient for legacy payments; oversee the testament's execution and intervene to uphold its validity if contested; and render account of his management at the end of the year from the testator's death.

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Article 647 Civil Law · Des Dispositions testamentaires
Succession Law
The testamentary executor may not transmit to his heirs the execution entrusted to him.
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The testamentary executor may not transmit to his heirs the execution entrusted to him.

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Article 648 Civil Law · Des Dispositions testamentaires
Succession Law
If the execution of a testament was entrusted to several persons who accepted, and the functions of each are not distinct and separate in the...
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If the execution of a testament was entrusted to several persons who accepted, and the functions of each are not distinct and separate in the testament, one alone may act in default of the others; but all shall be jointly liable for the account of the succession's movable property.

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Article 649 Civil Law · Des Dispositions testamentaires
Succession Law
The costs of affixing seals, inventory, the executors' management account, and all other costs relating to the execution of the testament, shall be discharged from...
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The costs of affixing seals, inventory, the executors' management account, and all other costs relating to the execution of the testament, shall be discharged from the succession's funds.

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Article 650 Civil Law · Des Dispositions testamentaires
Succession Law
The testator may, in whole or in part, revoke his testament, either by a subsequent testament, or by a notarial act expressing the change of...
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The testator may, in whole or in part, revoke his testament, either by a subsequent testament, or by a notarial act expressing the change of his will or the annihilation of his prior dispositions.

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Article 651 Civil Law · Des Dispositions testamentaires
Succession Law
If the subsequent testament does not expressly revoke a prior one, the dispositions in the prior shall not be annulled and shall have effect, provided...
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If the subsequent testament does not expressly revoke a prior one, the dispositions in the prior shall not be annulled and shall have effect, provided they are not incompatible with or contrary to those in the subsequent testament.

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Article 652 Civil Law · Des Dispositions testamentaires
Succession Law
The incapacity of the instituted heir or legatee, nor their refusal to collect the succession, does not prevent the effect of the revocation made in...
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The incapacity of the instituted heir or legatee, nor their refusal to collect the succession, does not prevent the effect of the revocation made in a subsequent testament.

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Article 653 Civil Law · Des Dispositions testamentaires
Succession Law
In the case of alienation, by whatever title, by sale with right of repurchase, or by exchange, by the testator, of all or part of...
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In the case of alienation, by whatever title, by sale with right of repurchase, or by exchange, by the testator, of all or part of a thing he had bequeathed, the legacy, for everything included in the alienation, shall be deemed and shall remain revoked, even if the post-legacy alienation was annulled and the testator returned to possession.

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Article 654 Civil Law · Des Dispositions testamentaires
Succession Law
Every testamentary disposition shall be without effect if the testator survives the person in whose favor the disposition was made.
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Every testamentary disposition shall be without effect if the testator survives the person in whose favor the disposition was made.

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Article 655 Civil Law · Des Dispositions testamentaires
Succession Law
When a testamentary disposition is made subject to a condition depending on an uncertain event, and the testator has manifested his intention such that the...
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When a testamentary disposition is made subject to a condition depending on an uncertain event, and the testator has manifested his intention such that the disposition shall have effect only if the event occurs or does not occur, the disposition shall be without effect if the instituted heir or legatee dies before the event takes place.

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Article 656 Civil Law · Des Dispositions testamentaires
Succession Law
The instituted heir or legatee retains and transmits to his heirs the right given by a testamentary disposition whose condition, according to the testator's intention,...
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The instituted heir or legatee retains and transmits to his heirs the right given by a testamentary disposition whose condition, according to the testator's intention, merely suspends the execution of the disposition.

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Article 657 Civil Law · Des Dispositions testamentaires
Succession Law
If, during the testator's lifetime, the bequeathed thing perished entirely, the legacy shall be without effect. It shall likewise be without effect if, after the...
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If, during the testator's lifetime, the bequeathed thing perished entirely, the legacy shall be without effect. It shall likewise be without effect if, after the testator's death, the thing perished without the heir's act or fault, even if he was in default of delivery, as it would have perished in the legatee's hands.

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Article 658 Civil Law · Des Dispositions testamentaires
Succession Law
Every testamentary disposition shall be without effect when the instituted heir or legatee declares he does not wish to benefit from it, or is incapable...
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Every testamentary disposition shall be without effect when the instituted heir or legatee declares he does not wish to benefit from it, or is incapable of receiving it.

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Article 659 Civil Law · Des Dispositions testamentaires
Succession Law
The legacy shall accrue to the benefit of the legatees whenever it is made to several jointly. It shall be deemed made jointly when made...
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The legacy shall accrue to the benefit of the legatees whenever it is made to several jointly. It shall be deemed made jointly when made by a single disposition and the share of each in the bequeathed thing has not been determined by the testator. The legacy shall also be deemed made jointly when the bequeathed thing cannot be divided without deterioration or loss of value, even if given to several persons separately.

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Article 660 Civil Law · Des Dispositions permises en faveur des Petits-Enfans du Donateur ou Testateur, ou des Enfans de ses Frères et Sœurs
Succession Law
Parents may give, in whole or in part, to one or more of their children, by inter vivos or testamentary acts, the property the law...
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Parents may give, in whole or in part, to one or more of their children, by inter vivos or testamentary acts, the property the law allows them to dispose of, with the obligation upon the donees to transmit said property to children born or to be born of them, at the first degree only.

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