Revised Civil Code of Louisiana; With Amendments, Including the Session of the Legislature of 1908 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: visional possession of the estate, or who shall have been legally appointed administrators of the same. CHAPTER 3. Of the Effects of Absence Upon the Eventual Rights Which May Belong to the Absentee. 76.?77.?135.?Whoever shall claim a right accruing to a person whose existence is not known, shall be bound to prove that such person existed at the time when the right in question accrued, and until this be proved, his demand shall not be admitted. 77.?78.?136.?In case a succession shall be opened in favor of a person whose existence is not known, such inheritance shall devolve exclusively on those who would have had a concurrent right with him to the estate, or on those on whom the inheritance should have devolved if such person had not existed. 78.?79.?137. ? The provisions of the two preceding articles shall not affect the right of claiming the inheritance and any other rights which the absentee or his representatives or assigns may have; these shall be extinguished only by the lapse of time which is established for prescription. 79.?80.?138.?As long as the absentee shall not appear, or a suit shall not be brought in his name, those who shall have been put in possession of the inheritance, shall have a right to the proceeds by them received liona fide. CHAPTER 4. Of the Effects of Absence Respecting Marriage. 80.?81.?139, 140. ?Ten years of absence, without any news of the absentee, is a sufficient cause for the husband or wife of such absentee to contract another marriage, after having been authorized to do so by the judge, on due proof that such absence without any news had continued the time required as aforesaid. R. 8., Sec. 800. And if after the said marriage the husband or wife who was absent, happens to return, he or she shall be free of his ...