Chapter I: Agreements relating to the exercise of undivided rights in the absence of a usufructuary.

In the event of the alienation of all or part of an undivided co-owner’s rights in the undivided property, or in one or more of these properties, the co-undivided co-owners benefit from the rights of pre-emption and substitution provided for by the articles 815-14 to 815-16 and 815-18 of this code. The agreement is deemed to have been concluded for an indefinite period when, for any reason whatsoever, an undivided…

The undivided co-owners may agree that, on the death of one of them, each of the survivors may acquire the share of the deceased, or that the surviving spouse, or any other designated heir, may have it allocated to them on condition that it is taken into account in the estate according to its value at the time of acquisition or allocation. If several undivided co-owners or several heirs simultaneously…

The option to acquire or allocate lapses if its beneficiary has not exercised it by notifying the surviving undivided co-owners and the heirs of the predeceased within one month of the day on which he was given formal notice to take a decision. This formal notice may not itself take place before the expiry of the period provided for in the title “Inheritances” for making an inventory and deliberating. Where…

Article 815-17 is applicable to joint ownership creditors, as well as to the personal creditors of the joint owners. However, the latter may only bring about partition in cases where their debtor could bring it about himself. In other cases, they may pursue the seizure and sale of their debtor’s share in the undivided interest in accordance with the forms provided for by the Code of Civil Procedure. The provisions…