Practice question
A will separately assigns the northern parcel to A and southern parcel to B. B’s gift becomes vacant; no substitute exists and the stipulated facts do not satisfy joint-portion accretion. A claims 1023 creates automatic accretion merely because both are devisees. Which is best?
- Every two devisees automatically share every parcel.
- Devisee status does not eliminate the unsatisfied accretion conditions.
- The executor may invent a joint designation.
- Separate parcels necessarily become one gift against the text.
- Only the last person to ask wins.
Legal references
- Civil Code Articles991,997-1001,1016-1023,1026-1035,1050 and1063-1072: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html
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