If the succession has not sufficient means for paying all the legacies, the order expressly laid down by the deceased in his will shall be followed in making payments.
Civil Code
2015 English source edition · Current applicability not established.
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Article 890
Reduction of Legacies · Preserved transcription; page attribution imported from the source collection. Verify against the original.
Failing an express disposition, the legacies which, in the will or in another written act drawn up by the deceased, are said to have been ordered as a remuneration for services rendered by the legatee or as a performance of an imperative moral duty shall be paid, in preference.
The other legacies shall be reduced in proportion to their value.
Legatees whose legacies are thus reduced may take recourse on the property of heirs who have accepted the inheritance fully.