Civil Code · English · 2015
Article 151
Succession Devolving on Absentee
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Where, after the date of the last news of the absentee, a succession opens to which the absentee would have been called if he were alive, such succession shall devolve without taking into account the portion which might have been assigned to the absentee.
#(2)
The heirs or legatees may be obliged by the Court to furnish a surety or other security for safeguarding the rights of the absentee.
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