Contracts involving the acquisition of real estate by means of the constitution of life annuities are subject to the provisions of this article.
The annuitants individually retain, for the service of their annuities, even against any agreement to the contrary, the legal mortgage of 1° of article 2402 of the Civil Code on the assigned property. If there are heirs in the direct line of the creditors, they may only deal with the insurer after having been authorised to do so by a judgement handed down in chambers on a simple petition.
The estimate of the current value, in full ownership, of the transferred buildings, is expressly stipulated in the life annuity contracts and guaranteed to be sincere and true by an expert appointed by the judicial court of the jurisdiction of the said buildings. The expert’s certificate, followed by his signature, appears in the contracts.