Section IV: Vacant and escheated estates.

The curator’s mission is set by the curatorship order. The curator may only deliver the particular or universal legacies granted by the deceased at the end of the period mentioned in article 810-1 of the Civil Code and where they are not opposed.

The inventory includes: 1° A mention of the order entrusting the curatorship of the vacant estate to the administrative authority in charge of the estates; 2° An indication of the places where the inventory is made; 3° A description and estimate of the property as well as a designation of the cash; 4° The active and passive consistence of the estate as it results from all documents, titles and papers….

The costs associated with the issue of the copy of the inventory made pursuant to the third paragraph of article 809-2 of the Civil Code are payable by the creditor or legatee who requests them.

Information delivered to creditors or legatees of the existence of a new advertisement is made by simple letter.

The declaration of claims shall be made by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt or by delivery against receipt.

Where the sale of the property belonging to the estate is not carried out in the manner provided for by the General Code on the Ownership of Public Persons for the disposal, for valuable consideration, of the real estate or movable property belonging to the State, it is carried out, in the case of real estate, in accordance with the rules provided for in articles 1271 to 1281 and, for…

Where an out-of-court sale is envisaged, the curator shall inform the creditors of the estate who have declared themselves of this by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt. A creditor’s request made pursuant to the third paragraph of article 810-3 of the Civil Code shall be served on the curator within one month of receipt of the information.