Shares, bonds, founders’ or beneficiaries’ shares, assets or rights placed in a trust defined in article 792-0 bis, company shares and any other claims of which the deceased was the owner or received the income or in respect of which he carried out any transaction whatsoever less than one year before his death.
Proof to the contrary may not result from a transfer for valuable consideration granted to one of the presumptive heirs or descendants of them, even if excluded by will, or to instituted donees or legatees, even if by a later will, or to interposed persons, as designated by the second paragraph of article 911 of the Civil Code, unless such assignment has acquired date certain before the opening of the succession.
The presumption in the first paragraph is not applied to property that has been the subject of a gradual or residual liberality, as referred to in articles 1048 to 1061 of the Civil Code.
The measures intended for the application of this article are laid down by decree in the Conseil d’Etat.