Art. 539 1. Jouissance des droits civils

¹ Peuvent être héritiers et acquérir par testament ou pacte successoral tous ceux qui ne sont pas légalement incapables de recevoir.

² Les libéralités faites dans un but déterminé à un groupe de personnes qui n’a pas la personnalité civile sont acquises à ces personnes individuellement, sous la charge de les appliquer au but prescrit ou, si cela n’est pas possible, constituées en fondations.

Art. 540 a. Grounds

¹ A person is unworthy of inheriting or acquiring anything by a testamentary disposition if:

1.: he or she wilfully and unlawfully caused or attempted to cause the death of the person now deceased;
2.: he or she wilfully and unlawfully rendered the person now deceased permanently incapable of making a testamentary disposition;
3.: by malice, coercion or threat he or she induced the person now deceased to make or revoke a testamentary disposition or prevented him or her from doing so;
4.: he or she wilfully and unlawfully eliminated or invalidated a testamentary disposition in such a manner as to prevent the person now deceased from drawing up a new one.

² Unworthiness to inherit does not apply if the person now deceased has forgiven the person concerned.

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