Title IV.

- SUCCESSION
 
CHAPTER 1
GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Art. 774. Succession is a mode of acquisition by virtue of which the
property, rights and obligations to the extent of the value of the inheritance,
of a person are transmitted through his death to another or others either by
his will or by operation of law. (n)

Art. 775. In this Title, "decedent" is the general term applied to the person
whose property is transmitted through succession, whether or not he left a
will. If he left a will, he is also called the testator. (n)

Art. 776. The inheritance includes all the property, rights and obligations of
a person which are not extinguished by his death. (659)

Art. 777. The rights to the succession are transmitted from the moment of
the death of the decedent. (657a)

Art. 778. Succession may be:

(1) Testamentary;

(2) Legal or intestate; or

(3) Mixed. (n)

Art. 779. Testamentary succession is that which results from the

designation of an heir, made in a will executed in the form prescribed by
law. (n)

Art. 780. Mixed succession is that effected partly by will and partly by
operation of law. (n)

Art. 781. The inheritance of a person includes not only the property and the
transmissible rights and obligations existing at the time of his death, but
also those which have accrued thereto since the opening of the succession.
(n)

Art. 782. An heir is a person called to the succession either by the provision
of a will or by operation of law.

Devisees and legatees are persons to whom gifts of real and personal
property are respectively given by virtue of a will. (n)