{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:article:154","workId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:en","title":"Property of Absentee","number":"154","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/154/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK I - PERSONS","title":"TITLE I - NATURAL PERSONS","chapter":"Chapter 4. - Absence","section":"Section 2. - Effects of Absence","paragraph":null},"paragraphs":[{"id":"p1","number":"1","text":"The will of the absentee, if any, shall be opened at the request of any interested party. The persons who would have been called to succeed to the property of the absentee in case he had died on the day of the last news may be placed in possession and the property be partitioned.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/154/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":58,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/58/?article=154&paragraph=p1#article-154-p1"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"The heir or legatee shall enjoy the property as a good “paterfamilias”. He may be obliged by the Court to give, before commencing his enjoyment, a surety or other security for the items which may become subject to a claim in restitution.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/154/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":58,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/58/?article=154&paragraph=p2#article-154-p2"}]},{"id":"p3","number":"3","text":"He shall invest the sums received by him within three months from the day on which he received them. He may not transfer the property by a gratuitous title, except for the purpose of establishing the children of the absentee.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/154/#p3","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":58,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/58/?article=154&paragraph=p3#article-154-p3"}]}],"caution":"This is the 2015 English-language edition attributed in its front matter to the Ministry of Justice. Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation, later changes, or whether the text is currently in force. Nine passages are incomplete in the available scan and are identified where they occur."}