(1) A property subject to a pledge securing the performance of a certain obligation (prior pledge) may also be pledged to secure the performance of another obligation of the same or other debtor to the benefit of another pledgee (subsequent pledge). (2) The constitution of…

(1) The right to terminate is exercised by the entitled party by notice in writing to the other contracting party. (2) The entitled party, if it relies on a legitimate interest, may, instead of termination under paragraph (1), ask a court to terminate by way…

(1) The surviving spouse is an heir on intestacy and is entitled to one quarter of the inheritance together with relatives of the first degree, regardless of the number of descendants. (2) The surviving spouse is entitled to o one half of the inheritance together…

Degrees of heirs are called to inherit only alone, in the order established by this Code, starting with the first degree.

If a person belongs to more than one stirps in the first, the second or the third degree, he or she receives the shares due to him or her in each of these stirpes. Each share is deemed to be a separate share of the…

(1) Heirs on intestacy of the fifth degree are the more distant forebears of the deceased and their descendants. (2) The provision of Article 2181 (2) and (3) applies with the necessary modifications.

(1) Heirs on intestacy of the fourth degree are the great-grandparents of the deceased and their descendants. (2) If a great-grandfather and/or a great-grandmother are living at the time of the devolution of an inheritance, they inherit alone. More than one inherit in equal shares,…

(1) Heirs on intestacy of the third degree are the grandparents of the deceased and their descendants. (2) If the grandfather and grandmother are living, they inherit alone and in equal shares. (3) If a grandparent of one set of grandparents is no longer living,…

(1) Heirs on intestacy of the second degree are the parents of the deceased and their descendants. (2) If the parents are living at the time of the devolution of an inheritance, they inherit alone and in equal shares. (3) If at the time of…

(1) Heirs on intestacy of the first degree are the descendants of the deceased. (2) A descendant living at the time of the devolution of an inheritance excludes the descendants related to the deceased through himself from the succession. (3) If a descendant is no…