{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:article:888","workId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:en","title":"Effect of Refusal","number":"888","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/888/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK III - SUCCESSIONS","title":"TITLE II. LIQUIDATION OF SUCCESSIONS","chapter":"Chapter 7. - Payment of Legacies","section":null,"paragraph":null},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"Where a legatee refuses a legacy bequeathed to him, such refusal shall benefit the person who, under the will, has the charge of paying the legacy.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/888/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":244,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/244/?article=888&paragraph=lead#article-888-lead"}]}],"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."}