Civil Code (Cap. 16)
Civil Code (Cap. 16), article 748
748. Where provision is not mad e in accordance with article
747 and the testator makes disposition by universal or singular title
and passes over any children or descendants, whether or not the
testator was aware of their existence, and whether or not such
children or descendants were born at the time of the making of
dispositions, such dispositions shall nonetheless be valid savi ng the
right of the children or descendants so passed over to their sh are of
the reserved portion to which they may be entitled under this C ode.
Right of children
born after the
making of the will.
Amended by:
XXI.1962.13.
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