Civil Code (Cap. 16)

Civil Code (Cap. 16), article 799

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799. (1) The children or descendants of a person excluded as unworthy shall not be excluded by reason of the unworthiness of their parent or ascendant, whether they succeed in their own right or whether, in order to succeed, they have to stand, under the rule of representation, in the place of the parent or ascendant so excluded. (2) Nevertheless, the father may in no case claim, over such inheritance, either the usufruct or the administration which the law grants to parents over the property of their children. Members of monastic orders.

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