{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:article:777","workId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:en","title":"Several Legatees","number":"777","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/777/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK III - SUCCESSIONS","title":"TITLE I. - DEVOLUTION OF SUCCESSIONS","chapter":"Chapter 3. - Wills","section":"Section 2. - Content and Interpretation of Wills","paragraph":"Paragraph 2. - Identification of Legatees"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"p1","number":"1","text":"Where the testator lias appointed several legatees by universal title or bequeathed a thing to two or more persons, without specifying the portion of each, the legatees shall have equal rights to the succession or to the thing bequeathed to them.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/777/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":214,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/214/?article=777&paragraph=p1#article-777-p1"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"Where any of such legatees cannot or does not want to accept the disposition made in his favor, his portion shall devolve upon his co-beneficiaries.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/777/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":215,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/215/?article=777&paragraph=p2#article-777-p2"}]}],"caution":"This is the 2015 English-language edition attributed in its front matter to the Ministry of Justice. Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation, later changes, or whether the text is currently in force. Nine passages are incomplete in the available scan and are identified where they occur."}