Book III: Different ways of acquiring property

A gift by marriage contract may be made cumulatively of present and future property, in whole or in part, on condition that a statement of the donor’s debts and charges existing on the day of the gift shall be annexed to the deed; in which case, the donee shall be free, on the donor’s death, to confine himself to the present property, renouncing the donor’s surplus property.

If the statement referred to in the preceding article has not been appended to the deed containing the gift of the present and future property, the donee will be obliged to accept or repudiate this gift for the whole. In the event of acceptance, he will only be able to claim those assets which are in existence on the day of the donor’s death, and he will be subject to…

A gift by marriage contract in favour of the spouses and the unborn children of their marriage may still be made, on condition of paying indiscriminately all the debts and charges of the donor’s estate, or under other conditions the performance of which would depend on his will, by whomever the gift is made : the donee will be bound to fulfil these conditions, if he does not prefer to…

Gifts made by marriage contract may not be challenged or declared invalid on the grounds of lack of acceptance.

Any gift made in favour of the marriage shall lapse if the marriage does not ensue.

Gifts made to one of the spouses, under the terms of articles 1082, 1084 and 1086 above, will lapse if the donor survives the donee spouse and his or her posterity.

All gifts made to spouses by their marriage contract shall, when the donor’s estate is opened, be reducible to the portion which the law allowed him to dispose of.