Civil Code · English · 2015
Article 890
Reduction of Legacies
(1)
If the succession has not sufficient means for paying all the legacies, the order expressly laid down by the deceased in his will shall be followed in making payments.
#(2)
Failing an express disposition, the legacies which, in the will or in another written act drawn up by the deceased, are said to have been ordered as a remuneration for services rendered by the legatee or as a performance of an imperative moral duty shall be paid, in preference.
#(4)
Legatees whose legacies are thus reduced may take recourse on the property of heirs who have accepted the inheritance fully.
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