WESTERN LEYTE COLLEGE

SCHOOL OF LAW
Ormoc City

CIVIL CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES

BOOK I - PERSONS
BOOK II - PROPERTY, OWNERSHIP AND ITS MODIFICATIONS
BOOK III - DIFFERENT MODES OF ACQUIRING OWNERSHIP

Title I - Occupation
Title II - Intellectual Creation
Title III - Donation
Title IV - Succession

COURSE OUTLINE
SUCCESSION

Book III, Title IV (Articles 774- 1105)

Chapter I - General Provisions (774-782)

Chapter II - Testamentary Succession

Section 1 - Wills

Subsection 1 - Wills in General (783- 795)

Subsection 2 - Testamentary Capacity and Intent (796- 803)
Subsection 3 - Forms of Wills (804-819)
Subsection 4 - Witnesses to Wills (820-824)
Subsection 5 - Codicils and Incorporation by Reference (825-827)
Subsection 6 - Revocation of Wills and Testamentary Dispositions
(828- 834)
Subsection 7 - Republication and Revival of Wills (835-837)
Subsection 8 - Allowance and Disallowance of Wills (838-839)

Section 2 - Institution of Heir (840-856)

Section 3 - Substitution of Heirs (857-870)
Section 4 - Conditional Testamentary Dispositions and
Testamentary Dispositions With a Term (871-885)
Section 5 - Legitime (886-914)
Section 6 - Disinheritance (915-923)
Section 7 - Legacies and Devises (924- 959)

Chapter III - Legal or Intestate Succession

Section 1 - General Provisions (960- 962)

Subsection 1 - Relationship (963-969)

Subsection 2 - Right of Representation (970-977)

Section 2 - Order of Intestate Succession

Subsection 1 - Descending Direct Line (978-984)

Subsection 2 - Ascending Direct Line (985-987)
Subsection 3 - Illegitimate Children (988-994)
Subsection 4 - Surviving Spouse (995-1002)
Subsection 5 - Collateral Relatives (1003-1010)
Subsection 6 - The State (1011-1014)

Chapter IV - Provisions Common to Testate and Intestate Succession

Section 1 - Right of Accretion (1015-1023)

Section 2 - Capacity to Succeed by Will or by Intestacy (1024-1040)
Section 3 - Acceptance and Repudiation of the Inheritance (1041-1057)
Section 4 - Executors and Administrators (1058-1060)
Section 5 - Collation (1061-1077)
Section 6 - Partition and Distribution of the Estate

Subsection 1 - Partition (1078-1090)

Subsection 2 - Effects of Partition (1091-1096)
Subsection 3 - Rescission and Nullity of Partition (1097-1105)

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