{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:article:778","workId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:en","title":"Determination of Subject of Legacy","number":"778","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/778/","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":"The thing forming the subject of a legacy is sufficiently specified where the testator has ordered that the heir or the legatee himself or some other person shall choose it from among various things or from among things of a specified nature or of a specified value.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/778/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":215,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/215/?article=778&paragraph=p1#article-778-p1"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"The legatee shall make the selection himself where the testator has not specified who shall make it or where the person charged with making it has not made it within a reasonable period given to him by the legatee.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/778/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":215,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/215/?article=778&paragraph=p2#article-778-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."}