Civil Code (Cap. 16)
Civil Code (Cap. 16), article 623
623. Saving the provisions of article 630, the grounds on
which a descendant may be disi nherited are the following only:
(a) if the descendant has without reason refused
maintenance to the testator;
(b) if, where the testator has become insane, the
descendant has abandoned him without in any manner
providing for his care;
(c) if, where the descendant could release the testator
from prison, he has without reasonable ground failed
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to do so;
(d) if the descendant has struck the testator, or has
otherwise been guilty of cruelty towards him;
(e) if the descendant has been guilty of grievous injury
against the testator;
(f) if the descendant is a prostitute without the connivance
of the testator;
(g) in any case in which the testator, by reason of the
marriage of the descendant, shall have been, under the
provisions of articles 27 to 29, declared free from the
obligation of supplying maintenance to such
descendant.
Grounds on which
an ascendant may
be disinherited.
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