Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1910 — French Law aa to Property. [ARTICLE]

French Law aa to Property.

According to French, law a certain reserve is established which no testator can bequeath away from his offspring. A Frenchman with one child can dispose of half his property according to his pleasure; the other half must inevitably pass to the child. Those with two children can dispose of only one-third of their property, those with three children of one-fourth, and so on, according to the size of the family. Stern parents occasionally seek to evade the law by subterfuge; but the disposal of property in France is hedged around with so many restrictions that family black sheep are rarely mulcted of their legal inheritance.