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.
Civil Code
2015 English source edition · Current applicability not established.
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Article 777
Several Legatees · Preserved transcription; page attribution imported from the source collection. Verify against the original.
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.