Article 877 of the French Civil Code
November 7, 2023
A writ of execution against the deceased is also enforceable against the heir, eight days after it has been served on him.
A writ of execution against the deceased is also enforceable against the heir, eight days after it has been served on him.
The deceased’s creditors and legatees of sums of money may ask to be given preference over the succession assets over any personal creditor of the heir. Reciprocally, the heir’s personal creditors may ask to be preferred over any creditor of the deceased on the heir’s assets not collected as part of the succession. The preferential right gives rise to a special legal mortgage provided for in 5° of article 2402…
This right may be exercised by any act by which a creditor manifests to a competing creditor his intention to be preferred over a specific asset.
It cannot be exercised where the claimant creditor has waived it.
It is prescribed, in respect of movables, by two years from the opening of the succession. In respect of immovables, the action may be brought as long as they remain in the hands of the heir.
The creditors of a co-partitioner, in order to prevent the partition from being made in fraud of their rights, may object to it being made without their presence: they have the right to intervene at their own expense; but they may not attack a completed partition, unless, however, it has been made without them and to the prejudice of an objection which they have lodged.
Each co-heir is deemed to have succeeded alone and immediately to all the effects included in his or her lot, or to have fallen to him or her on licitation, and never to have had ownership of the other effects of the succession. The same applies to property which has fallen to him or her by any other act having the effect of bringing the indivision to an end. No…
The co-heirs remain respectively guarantors, towards each other, for disturbances and evictions only which arise from a cause prior to the partition. They are also guarantors for the insolvency of the debtor of a debt placed in the lot of a co-partitioner, revealed before the partition. The guarantee does not arise if the species of eviction suffered has been excepted by a particular and express clause in the deed of…
Each of the co-heirs is personally obliged, in proportion to his emolument, to compensate the evicted co-heir for the loss he has suffered, valued on the day of the eviction. If one of the co-heirs becomes insolvent, the portion for which he is liable must be divided equally between the guarantor and all the solvent co-heirs.
An action in warranty is barred after two years from the eviction or the discovery of the disturbance.
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