French Civil Code

It is up to the disposing party to prescribe guarantees and securities for the proper performance of the charge.

The second gratified cannot be subject to the obligation to preserve and transmit. If the charge has been stipulated beyond the first degree, it remains valid but for the first degree only.

If the encumbered person is a reserved heir of the disposing person, the charge may only be imposed on the available portion. The donee may, however, accept, in the deed of gift or subsequently in a deed drawn up under the conditions provided for in Article 930, that the charge encumbers all or part of his reserve. The legatee may, within a period of one year from the day on…

The author of a gradual donation may revoke it in respect of the second gratified person as long as the latter has not notified the donor of his acceptance in the manner required for donations. By way of derogation from article 932, a gradual gift may be accepted by the second recipient after the donor’s death.

When the second gratified predeceases the indebted person or renounces the benefit of the gradual liberality, the property or rights that were the subject of it depend on the estate of the indebted person, unless the deed expressly provides that his heirs may receive it or designates another second gratified person.