Text of the provision
Art. 849. When the testator calls to the succession a person and his children they are all deemed to have been instituted simultaneously and not successively.
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Civil Code of the Philippines, Republic Act No. 386, approved June 18, 1949, effective August 30, 1950. Reproduced in full; verified verbatim against the LawPhil and ChanRobles official-text renderings.
What this article means
When the testator calls to the succession a person and his children, they are all deemed instituted simultaneously and not successively.
Related provisions
- Article 848 — Full-Blood and Half-Blood Siblings.
- Article 850 — A False Cause for the Institution.
Cases interpreting this article
- Authorities on this article will be added here as each is verified against primary sources.
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