Livre 6 : Succession

Sections annotées de ce livre

• §1599 Succession, ouverture à la mort Succession opens at the moment of death. The estate of the deceased passes immediately to the heirs by operation of law, subject to administration of…
• §1600 Qu’est-ce que la propriété immobilière ? The estate of a deceased person includes property of every kind, together with the deceased's rights, duties and liabilities. The one exception is anything that…
• §1601 An heir's liability for the debts of the estate is strictly limited to the value of the property that devolved on that heir; personal assets…
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• §1604 Only a natural person who has legal personality at the time of the deceased's death may be an heir. An unborn child conceived before the…
• §1605
• §1606 Exclusion d’un héritage en raison de l’inadéquation
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• §1620 Successionnaires légalement constitués, six classes Where there is no will, the estate descends to statutory heirs in six classes. Higher classes exclude lower; within each class, heirs share equally.
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• §1623 Property acquired by a Buddhist monk during his time in the monkhood passes, on his death, to the monastery that is his domicile, unless he…
• §1624
• §1625 Diviser la propriété entre le défunt et le conjoint survivant Where the deceased was married, the marital property must first be liquidated, the surviving spouse takes their half of joint marital property (sinsomros), before the…
• §1626
• §1627 Les enfants reconnus et adoptés sont des descendants This section covers two kinds of child, not one. An illegitimate child whom the father has acknowledged, and an adopted child, are both deemed to…
• §1628 Les époux séparés conservent leur patrimoine
• §1629 Six catégories d'héritiers légaux détaillées (1) Descendants; (2) parents; (3) full-blood siblings; (4) half-blood siblings; (5) grandparents; (6) uncles and aunts.
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• §1633 Statutory heirs of the same class share equally among themselves. If only one heir in a class exists, that heir takes the entire portion available…
• §1634
• §1635 Part du conjoint survivant The surviving spouse inherits alongside whatever class of statutory heir takes, taking different fractions depending on which class.
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• §1646 Droit de faire un testament Any person may make a will directing what is to happen to their property, and other matters, on their death. This section fixes no minimum…
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• §1648
• §1649 The estate administrator appointed by the will has the duty to arrange the funeral. In the absence of such an administrator, the heir who receives…
• §1650
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• §1652
• §1653 L’auteur d’un testament et ses témoins ne peuvent en bénéficier. A person who writes a will, or who witnesses it, cannot take a benefit under that will, and the same bar applies to that person's…
• §1654 Lorsqu'on évalue la capacité du testateur et du bénéficiaire Two different moments apply. The testator's capacity is judged only as at the time the will was made, so a testator who later loses capacity…
• §1655 Un testament doit prendre l'une des formes prescrites A will may be made only in one of the forms prescribed in this Chapter. There is no valid will outside those forms, so a…
• §1656 Will, forme écrite ordinaire (2 témoins) An ordinary written will must be made in writing, dated, signed by the testator before at least two witnesses who must then sign in the…
• §1657 Testament holographique A holographic will must be entirely handwritten by the testator and signed. No witnesses required.
• §1658 Will, document public au bureau du district A will may be made as a public document at the District Office. The testator declares the terms to the district officer before at least…
• §1659
• §1660 Will, forme secrète A secret will is written, sealed, signed across the seal, and delivered to the District Officer who records the delivery while keeping the contents secret.
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• §1663 Testaments oraux dans des circonstances particulières Where special circumstances make it impossible to use any other form, such as imminent danger of death, an epidemic or a war, a will may…
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• §1667 Un Thaïlandais a fait du travail à l'étranger คนในบังคับไทยที่จะทำพินัยกรรมในต่างประเทศ อาจทำตามแบบซึ่งกฎหมายของประเทศที่ทำพินัยกรรมบัญญัติไว้ หรือตามแบบที่กฎหมายไทยบัญญัติไว้ก็ได้ เมื่อทำตามแบบที่กฎหมายไทยบัญญัติไว้ อำนาจและหน้าที่ของกรมการอำเภอตามมาตรา 1658 1660 1661 1662 และ 1663 ให้ตกแก่พนักงานทูตหรือกงสุลฝ่ายไทยซึ่งกระทำการตามขอบอำนาจของตน หรือพนักงานซึ่งมีอำนาจตามกฎหมายของต่างประเทศนั้น
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• §1672 Règlement ministériel en vertu de ce livre The Ministers of Interior, Defence and Foreign Affairs have the power and duty, each so far as concerns them, to issue Ministerial Regulations to carry…
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• §1686 Les trusts n’ont aucune valeur juridique sauf dans le cadre d’une loi sur les trusts.
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• §1692
• §1693 Révocation du testament A testator may revoke their will at any time during their lifetime, by a new will, by destruction of the document with revocatory intent, or…
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• §1696
• §1697 Un testament ultérieur révoque un précédent testament uniquement s'ils sont en conflit. Unless the testator has declared otherwise in the will, where an earlier and a later will conflict, the earlier is treated as revoked by the…
• §1698
• §1699 Where a will or a clause in a will has no effect for any reason, the property covered by that clause falls to the statutory…
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• §1701
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• §1703 Un testament émis avant l'âge de quinze ans est nul. A will made by a person who has not completed his fifteenth year of age is void. Fifteen is therefore the age of testamentary capacity…
• §1704 Testaments écrits par des personnes incapables ou mentalement malades A will made by a person the court has adjudged incompetent is void outright. Where a person is alleged to have been of unsound mind…
• §1705 Un testament contraire aux dispositions de la forme prévue est nul. A will, or any clause in it, is void if it contravenes Section 1652, 1653, 1656, 1657, 1658, 1660, 1661 or 1663. The list is…
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• §1711 Administrateur de propriété, nomination Estate administrator, appointment.
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• §1713 Une ordonnance du tribunal est nécessaire pour nommer un administrateur de succession. Where there is no executor named in the will, or the will is silent, an heir, an interested person or the public prosecutor may apply…
• §1714
• §1715 A testator may appoint one or more administrators. Where multiple are appointed and all but one are unable or unwilling to act, the remaining one…
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• §1717
• §1718 Qui ne peut être administrateur de succession Three classes of person cannot be an administrator of an estate: those who have not yet reached majority, those of unsound mind or whom the…
• §1719 Pouvoirs et devoirs de l'administrateur successoral The estate administrator (court-appointed or named in the will) has both the power and the duty to carry out the will's instructions, manage the estate's…
• §1720 Responsabilité d’un administrateur de succession
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• §1725 The estate administrator must take proper steps to locate interested persons and notify them within a reasonable time of the testamentary dispositions that concern them.
• §1726
• §1727 Révocation de l'administrateur successoral The court may remove an administrator for misconduct, mismanagement, or refusal to act, on petition by any heir or interested party.
• §1728 Lorsque l’administrateur doit procéder à l’inventaire
• §1729 Date limite et témoins pour l’inventaire d’un patrimoine The administrator must finish the inventory of the estate within one month from the time prescribed in Section 1728, though the court may extend that…
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• §1732
• §1733 An approval of the administrator's accounts, or any release from liability, only binds the heirs if they were given the accounts and supporting documents at…
• §1734 Dettes immobilières, limite de la responsabilité des héritiers Heirs are not personally liable for the deceased's debts beyond the value of the estate property they received.
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• §1750 Comment un patrimoine est divisé entre les héritiers
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• §1753
• §1754 Prescription sur les créances successorales Inheritance claims are barred by prescription one year from when the heir knew of the right, and ten years from the death.
• §1755 The one-year prescription on inheritance claims may be raised only by an heir, by a person entitled to exercise an heir's rights, or by an…