Natural Persons

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1. What is juridical capacity under Civil Code Article 37?
2. Under Articles 37 and 42, what extinguishes a natural person’s civil personality?
3. Under Article 40, what ordinarily determines personality, subject to the rule favoring a conceived child?
4. A twelve-year-old owns property through a valid inheritance. A relative says minority means the child has no juridical …
5. A child with eight months of intra-uterine life is alive when completely delivered, but dies ten hours later. For the s…
6. An unborn child has already been conceived when a grandparent dies. Assume the child otherwise qualifies to inherit. Th…
7. A child has an intra-uterine life of six months, is alive at complete delivery, and dies twelve hours later. For civil …
8. Distinguish juridical capacity from capacity to act, using minority as an illustration.
9. Explain Article 40’s protection of a conceived child and the importance of Article 41’s birth conditions.
10. Apply Article 41 to distinguish a child with eight months of intra-uterine life who is alive at complete delivery but d…
11. Under 43, who must prove the asserted earlier death among persons called to succeed each other?
12. In the absence of proof resolving that doubt, what does 43 presume?