Table of Contents
- Cover Page
- Foreword
- Abbreviations
- Synopsis
- Preliminary title Of the general definitions of rights and the promulgation of the laws
- Book I Of persons
- Title I Of the distinction of persons, and the privation of certain civil rights in certain cases
- Title II Of domicil and the manner of changing the same
- Title III Of absent persons
- Chapter I Of the curatorship of absent persons
- Chapter II Of the putting into provisional possession the heirs of the absentee
- Chapter III Of the effects of absence upon the eventual rights which may belong to the absentee
- Chapter IV Of the effects of absence respecting marriage
- Chapter V Of the care of minor children whose father has disappeared
- Title IV Of husband and wife
- Title V Of the separation from bed and board
- Chapter I Of the causes of separation from bed and board
- Chapter II Of the proceedings on separation from bed and board
- Chapter III Of the provisional proceedings to which a suit for separation may give occasion
- Chapter IV Of objections to the action of separation from bed and board
- Chapter V Of the effects of separation from bed and board
- Title VI Of master and servant
- Title VII Of father and child
- Title VIII Of minors, of their tutorship, curatorship and emancipation
- Chapter I Of tutorship
- Section I General dispositions
- Section II Of tutorship by nature
- Section III Of tutorship by will
- Section IV Of the tutorship by the effect of the law
- Section V Of dative tutorship
- Section VI Of the under tutor
- Section VII Of the causes which dispense or excuse from the tutorship
- Section VIII Of incapacity for, exclusion from and deprivation of the tutorship
- Section IX Of the administration of the tutor
- Chapter II Of the curatorship of minors
- Chapter III Of emancipation
- Chapter I Of tutorship
- Title IX Of persons insane, idiots, and other persons incapable of administering their estate
- Title X Of communities or corporations
- Book II Of things and of the different modifications of property
- Title I Of things or estates
- Title II Of absolute ownership
- Title III Of usufruct, use and habitation
- Title IV Of predial services or services of land
- Book III Of the different manners of acquiring the property of things
- Preliminary title General dispositions
- Title I Of successions
- Chapter I Of the different sorts of successions and heirs
- Chapter II Of legal successions
- Chapter III Of irregular successions
- Chapter IV In what manner successions are opened
- Chapter V Of the incapacity and unworthiness of the heirs
- Chapter VI In what manner a succession is accepted and how it is renounced
- Chapter VII Of the administration of vacant estates and estates ab intestato
- Chapter VIII Of partition among heirs and of the collation of goods
- Title II Of donations inter vivos (between living persons) and mortis causa (in prospect of death)
- Chapter I General dispositions
- Chapter II Of the capacity necessary for disposing of and receiving by donation inter vivos or mortis causa
- Chapter III Of the portion disposable, and of its reduction in case of excess
- Chapter IV Of dispositions reprobated by the law in donations inter vivos and mortis causa
- Chapter V Of donations inter vivos (between living)
- Chapter VI Of dispositions mortis causa (in the prospect of death)
- Section I Of testament or codicil
- Section II Of the form of testaments and codicils
- Section III Of testamentary dispositions
- Section IV Of the institution of heir and of disinherison
- Section V Of legacies
- Section VI Of the opening and the proof of wills, and of testamentary executions
- Section VII Of the revocation of testaments and codicils and of their caducity
- Section VIII Of the interpretation of testamentary dispositions
- Chapter VII Of partitions made by parents among their descendants
- Chapter VIII Of donations made by marriage contract to the husband or wife, and to the children to be born of the marriage
- Chapter IX Of donations between married persons, either by marriage contract, or during the marriage
- Title III Of contracts and of conventional obligations in general
- Chapter I Preliminary dispositions
- Chapter II Of the conditions essential to the validity of agreements
- Chapter III Of the effect of obligations
- Section I General dispositions
- Section II Of the obligation of giving
- Section III Of the obligations of doing or of not doing
- Section IV Of the damages resulting from the non execution of the obligation
- Section V Of the interpretation of the agreements
- Section VI Of the effect of agreements with regard to persons not parties to them
- Chapter IV Of the different kinds of obligations
- Chapter V Of the extinction of obligations
- Chapter VI Of the proof of obligations and of that of payment
- Title IV Of engagements formed without agreements, or of quasi contracts and quasi offences
- Title V Of marriage contract
- Title VI Of sale
- Chapter I Of the nature and form of the contract of sale, and of the manner in which it is to be performed
- Chapter II Of persons capable of buying and selling, and of things which may be sold
- Chapter III Of the obligations of the seller
- Chapter IV Of the obligations of the buyer
- Chapter V Of the nullity and rescissions of the sale
- Chapter VI Of sales by cant or auction
- Chapter VII Of the assignment or transfer of debts and other incorporeal rights
- Title VII Of exchange
- Title VIII Of letting and hiring
- Title IX Of partnership
- Title X Of loan
- Title XI Of deposit and sequestration
- Title XII Of aleatory contracts
- Title XIII Of mandate or commission
- Chapter I Of the nature of proxies, mandates and commissions
- Chapter II What persons may be appointed attornies in fact
- Chapter III Of the obligations of a person acting under a power of attorney
- Chapter IV Of the obligations of the principal who acts by his attorney in fact
- Chapter V How the procuration expires
- Title XIV Of suretyship
- Title XV Of transactions
- Title XVI Of respite
- Title XVII Of compromises or arbitration
- Title XVIII Of pledge
- Title XIX Of privileges and mortgages
- Title XX Of occupancy, possession and prescription
- Title XXI Of the title by judgment or seizure
- Index
- Manuscript index
- Manuscript index Part 2
CHAPTER V - OF PATERNAL AUTHORITY
SECTION I - OF THE DUTIES OF PARENTS TOWARDS THEIR LEGITIMATE CHILDREN, AND OF THE DUTIES OF LEGITIMATE CHILDREN TOWARDS THEIR PARENTS
Art. 36. A child, whatever be his or her age, owes honor and respect to his or her father and mother.
Art. 37. A child remains under the authority of his or her father and mother, until his or her majority or emancipation.
Art. 38. As long as the child remains under the authority of his or her father and mother, he or she is bound to obey them in every thing which is not contrary to religion and the laws.
Art. 39. A child under the age of puberty, cannot quit the paternal house, without permission of his or her father and mother, who have a right to correct him or her, provided it be done in a reasonable manner.
Art. 40. The father and mother have a right to appoint tutors to their children, as is directed in the title of minors and to transmit to them their authority, to be by them exercised, after the death of the father and mother.
Art. 41. Fathers and mothers may, during their life, delegate a part of their authority to teachers, schoolmasters and other persons to whom they entrust their children for their education, such as the power of restraint and correction, as far as may be necessary to answer the purposes for which they employ them.
Art. 42. Fathers and mother shall have, during marriage, the enjoyment of the estate of their children, until their majority or emancipation.
Art. 43. The obligations resulting from this enjoyment shall be:
1st, The same obligations to which usufructuaries are subjected.
2d, To nourish, to maintain and to educate their children according to their situation in life.
Art. 44. This usufruct, in case of separation from bed and board shall take place in toto, in favor of either father or mother who shall have sued for such separation and shall be subjected to the conditions prescribed in the preceding article.
Art. 45. This usufruct shall not extend to any estate which the children may acquire by their own labor and industry, whilst they live apart from their father and mother, nor to such estate as is given or left them under the express condition that the father and mother shall not enjoy such usufruct.
Art. 46. Fathers and mothers, by the very act of marrying, contract together the obligation of nourishing, maintaining and educating their children.
Art. 47. A child has no right to sue either his father or mother, for the purpose of obtaining a marriage settlement or other advancement.
Art. 48. Children are bound to maintain their father and mother and other ascendants who are in need, and the relatives in the direct ascending line, are likewise bound to maintain their needy descendants; this obligation being reciprocal.
Art. 49. By alimony, we understand what is necessary for the nourishment, lodging and clothing of the person who claims it.
Art. 50. Alimony shall be granted in proportion to the wants of the person requiring it, and the circumstances of those who are to pay it.
Art. 51. When the person who gives or receives alimony, is replaced in such a situation, that the one can no longer give, or that the other is no longer in need of it, the circumstances of either party are materially changed; then the discharge from or reduction of said alimony may be sued for and granted.
Art. 52. If the person whose duty it is to furnish alimony, shall prove, that either he or she is unable to pay the same, the judge may after examining into the case, order that such person shall receive in his or her house and there nourish and maintain the person to whom he or she owes alimony.
Art. 53. The judge shall pronounce likewise whether the father or mother, who may offer to receive, nourish and maintain in his or her house, the child to who he or she may owe alimony, shall be dispensed in that case, from the obligation of paying for it elsewhere.
Art. 54. Fathers and mothers and other ascendants who die intestate, transmit their estate to their children or grand children, and if they make a will, they are bound to leave to them at least a certain portion of their estate determined by law and called the legitime unless they may have just causes for disinheriting them.
This obligation is reciprocal on the part of the children towards their father and mother and other ascendants.
Art. 55. Fathers and mothers owe protection to their children, and of course they may as long as their children are under their authority, appear for them in court in every kind of civil suit in which they may be interested, and they may likewise accept any donation made to them.
Art. 56. Fathers and mothers may justify themselves in an action began against them, for assault and battery, if they have acted in defence of the persons of their children.
Art. 57. Fathers and mothers are answerable for the offences, or quasi offences, committed by their children in the cases prescribed under the title of the quasi contracts and quasi crimes or offences.
Art. 58. On their side children ought to be security for their father and mother and other ascendants, to deliver them out of prison, by obliging themselves to represent them or to pay for them, as their circumstances may allow.
They ought to redeem them if they have the means, when they are captives.
They ought to render them all the assistance which their situation may require, if they should have the misfortune to fall in a state of insanity.
They ought not to marry, if minors, without the consent of the father and mother.
And if they neglect to fulfil any of these duties, they are liable to be deservedly disinherited.
CHAPITRE V – DE LA PUISSANCE PATERNELLE
SECTION I – DES DEVOIRS DES PÈRES ENVERS LEURS ENFANS LÉGITIMES, ET DE CEUX-CI ENVERS EUX
Art. 36. L'enfant à tout âge, doit honneur et respect à ses père et mère.
Art. 37. L'enfant reste sous l'autorité de ses père et mère, jusqu'a sa majorité, ou à son émancipation.
Art. 38. Tant que l'enfant reste sous la puissance de ses père et mère, il doit leur obéir dans tout ce qui n'est pas contraire à la religion et aux lois.
Art. 39. L'enfant au-dessous de l'âge de puberté, ne peut quitter la maison paternelle, sans la permission de ses père et mère et ceux-ci ont le droit de le corriger, pourvu que ce soit d'une manière raisonnable.
Art. 40. Les père et mère ont le droit de nommer des tuteurs à leurs enfans, ainsi qu'il est prescrit au titre des mineurs, &c. et de leur transmettre leur autorité pour l'exercer même après leur mort.
Art. 41. Pendant leur vie, les père et mère ont le droit de déléguer une partie de leur autorité, aux instituteurs, précepteurs et autres personnes auxquelles ils confient leurs enfans, pour les élever, tel que le pouvoir de les contenir et corriger, de manière à répondre à l'objet pour lequel ils les employent.
Art. 42. Les père et mère auront, durant leur mariage, la jouissance des biens de leurs enfans jusqu'à leur majorité ou émancipation.
Art. 43. Les charges de cette jouissance seront:
1°. Celles auxquelles sont tenus les usufruitiers;
2°. La nourriture, l'entretien et l'éducation des enfans, selon leur fortune.
Art. 44. Cet usufruit, en cas de séparation de corps, aura lieu pour la totalité, au profit de celui des père et mère qui aura obtenu la séparation, aux charges prescrites dans l'article précédent et l'autre époux en sera privé.
Art. 45. Cet usufruit ne s'étendra pas aux biens que les enfants pourront acquérir par un travail et une industrie séparée, et à ceux qui leur seront donnés et légués, sous la condition expresse que les père et mère n'en jouiront pas.
Art. 46. Les père et mère, par le seul fait du mariage, contractent ensemble l'obligation de nourrir, entretenir et élever leurs enfans.
Art. 47. L'enfant n'a pas d'action contre ses père et mère pour un établissement par mariage ou autrement.
Art. 48. Les enfans doivent des alimens à leurs père et mère et autres ascendans qui sont dans le besoin.
De même, les ascendans doivent des alimens à leurs descendans qui sont dans le besoin, cette obligation étant réciproque.
Art. 49. Le mot aliment en ce cas, s'entend de ce qui est nécessaire pour la nourriture, le logement et l'habillement de celui qui réclame.
Art. 50. Les alimens ne sont accordés que dans la proportion du besoin de celui qui réclame et de la fortune de celui qui les doit.
Art. 51. Lorsque celui qui reçoit ou qui fournit des alimens, est replacé dans un état tel, que l'un ne puisse plus en donner, ou que l'autre n'en ait plus besoin, en tout ou en partie, la décharge ou réduction peut en être demandée.
Art. 52. Si la personne qui doit fournir des alimens, justifie qu'elle ne peut payer la pension alimentaire, le juge pourra, en connaissance de cause, ordonner qu'elle recevra dans sa demeure, qu'elle nourrira et entretiendra celui auquel elle devra des alimens.
Art. 53. Le juge prononcera également si le père ou la mère qui offrira de recevoir, nourrir et entretenir dans sa demeure, l'enfant à qui il doit des alimens, devra, dans ce cas, être dispensé de payer la pension alimentaire.
Art. 54. Les père et mère et autres ascendans qui meurent ab intestat, transmettent leurs biens à leurs enfans ou petits enfans; et s'ils font un testament, ils sont tenus de leur réserver au moins, une certaine portion de leurs biens déterminée par la loi et appelée légitime, si ce n'est qu'ils ayent contre eux de justes causes d'exhérédation.
Cette obligation est réciproque de la part des enfans envers leurs père et mère et autres ascendans.
Art. 55. Les père et mère doivent protection à leurs enfans, en conséquence ils peuvent, tant qu'ils sont en leur puissance, paraître pour eux, en justice, dans toute espèce de procès civils où ils sont intéressés, comme aussi accepter les donations qui leur sont faites.
Art. 56. Les père et mère sont dans le cas de se justifier dans une action intentée contre eux pour avoir attaqué et battu quelqu'un, s'ils ne l'ont fait que pour la défense de la personne de leurs enfans.
Art. 57. Les père et mère sont responsables des délits et quasi délits commis par leurs enfans de la manière et dans les cas prescrits au titre des quasi contrats et des quasi délits.
Art. 58. De leur côté, les enfans doivent cautionner leurs père et mère et autres ascendans, pour les tirer de prison, s'obligeant de les représenter ou de payer pour eux, suivant que leurs facultés peuvent le leur permettre;
Ils doivent les racheter, s'ils en ont les moyens, lorsqu'ils sont en captivité;
Ils doivent leur rendre tous les services que leur état peut exiger, s'ils ont le malheur de tomber en démence;
Enfin ils ne doivent point, étant en minorité, se marier sans le consentement de leurs père et mère;
Et s'ils manquent à aucuns de ces devoirs, ils encourrent une juste exhérédation.
