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Art. 1399. Definitive partitions involving minors, interdicts, or absent persons

Art. 1399. Definitive partitions involving minors, interdicts, or absent persons When partitions, in which minors, persons interdicted, or absent persons are interested, have been made with all the formalities prescribed by law for judicial partitions, they can not be rescinded for any other causes than those which would authorize the rescission of partitions made by […]

Art. 1400. Provisional partitions involving minors, interdicts, or absent persons

Art. 1400. Provisional partitions involving minors, interdicts, or absent persons But if these formalities have not been fulfilled, as the partition is only considered as provisional, it is not necessary to sue for the rescission of it, but a new partition may be demanded for the least lesion, which the minor, person interdicted, or absent […]

Art. 1401. Omission of succession effects not cause for rescission.

Art. 1401. Omission of succession effects not cause for rescission. The mere omission of a thing, belonging to the succession, * is not ground for rescission, but simply for a supplementary partition. * English translation of French text incomplete; should include "in the partition."

Art. 1402. Rescission of transactions effecting partition.

Art. 1402. Rescission of transactions effecting partition. The action of the rescission mentioned in the foregoing articles takes place in the cases prescribed by law, not only against all acts bearing the title of partition, but even against all those which tend to the division of property between coheirs, whether such acts be called sales, […]

Art. 1403. Rescission inadmissible after compromise.

Art. 1403. Rescission inadmissible after compromise. But, after the partition, or the act operating the same effect, the action of rescission can no longer be admitted against a compromise made to put an end to disputes arising in consequence of the first act, although there should be no suit commenced on the subject.

Art. 1406. Sale to coheir of immovable rights only, rescission for lesion.

Art. 1406. Sale to coheir of immovable rights only, rescission for lesion. In order that the purchaser be not liable to this action, it is besides necessary that the vendor should have ceded to him all his successive rights, that is, all the rights he had in the succession. If he has only sold his […]

Art. 1407. Facts required to obtain rescission for lesion.

Art. 1407. Facts required to obtain rescission for lesion. This sale shall be subject to rescission, if it be proved that, at the time it was made, the purchaser alone knew the value of the succession, and permitted the vendor to remain in ignorance of it.

Art. 1408. Termination of partition suit by defendant’s tender.

Art. 1408. Termination of partition suit by defendant’s tender. The defendant in the suit for rescission may stop its course and prevent a new partition, by offering and giving to the plaintiff the supplement of his hereditary portion, either in money or in kind, provided the rescission is not demanded for cause of violence or […]

Art. 1409. Amount of tender.

Art. 1409. Amount of tender. When the defendant is admitted to prevent a new partition, as is said in the preceding article, if he furnishes the supplement in money, it must be with interest from the day of the institution of the suit; if he furnishes it in* effects, he is bound to restore the […]

Art. 1410. Rescission for fraud or violence inadmissible after alienation.

Art. 1410. Rescission for fraud or violence inadmissible after alienation. The coheir who has alienated his share or part of it, is no longer admitted to bring the action of rescission for fraud or violence, if the alienation he has made was posterior to the discovery of the fraud, or to the cessation of the […]

Art. 1411. Rescission inadmissible against partition regulated by father.

Art. 1411. Rescission inadmissible against partition regulated by father. If the partition has been regulated by the father among his children, no restitution can take place, even in favor of minors, when, by such partition, one or more of the heirs have received more than the others, unless that overplus should exceed the portion which […]

Art. 1413. Prescription of action of rescission.

Art. 1413. Prescription of action of rescission. Suits for the rescission of partitions are prescribed by the lapse of five years from the date thereof, and in case of error and fraud, from the day in which they are discovered.

Art. 1414. Prescription against minors after judicial partition.

Art. 1414. Prescription against minors after judicial partition. This prescription, in case of lesion, runs against minors as well as against persons of age, when the partition * has been made judicially and with all the forms prescribed by law. * English translation of French text incomplete; should include "in which the minors were interested."