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.
Civil Code
2015 English source edition · Current applicability not established.
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Article 778
Determination of Subject of Legacy · Preserved transcription; page attribution imported from the source collection. Verify against the original.
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.