1900, art. Also one who may accept the succession. Succession of Gusman, 86 La. Ann. 299. . ee

art. 1227; Miller v. Miller, 105 La. 257, 29 South. 802.

art. 1761; Fisk v. Police Jury, 34

art. 1764.

art. 50.

art. 3522.

art. 3522, no. 16; 9 Ves. 328.

art. 1495. And see Crain v. Crain, 17 Tex. 90; Hagerty v. Hagerty, 12 Tex. 456;

art. 874. When there are no direct or collateral relatives surviving the decedent, and the succession consequently devolves upon the surviving husband or wife, or illegitimate children, or the state, it is called an Ri. ular succession.”—Heir, legal. In the ci law. A legal beir is one who takes the succession by relationship to the decedent and by force of law. This is different from a_ testamentary or conventional heir, who takes the succession in yirtue of the disposition of man.

art. 2082.

arts. 918, 3556.

art. 2063...-..° goa ae They are either simple or conditionah: Simpl obligations are such as are not dependent for their execution. on .any..event provided, for by the parties, and which are not agreed to become void on the happening of any such event. Con ditional obligations are such as are made to depend on an i oer event. . If the obligation is not to take effect until the event happens, it is a suspensive condition; if the obligation takes effect immediately, but Is liable to defeated when the event arpese it is then. a olutory condition.. Civ. Code La. arta.. Ds, 2021: Moss v. Smoker, 2 La. Ann. 989.° They may be either single or penal; the latter! when a penal clause is attached to the unde . ing. to enfo in case the obligor fails to periorm ; the former, when, no such. penalty, is added. i Other compound and deseriptive term. ~—Moral obligation. <A duty which is vaiid and binding in the forum of the conscience but is not recognized by ‘the law as adequate ,to set in motion the machinery of pushes that is, one which rests upon ethical considerations alone, and is not imposed or. enforéed by- veel tive law. Taylor v. Hotchkiss, 81 App. ‘Diva 70, 80 N. Y. Supp. 1042; Goulding v. Davidson, 25 How. Prac. (N. Y.} 483;' Bafiley‘ v.

art. 2015.—Solidary obligation. In the law of Louisi one which binds each of the obligors for the whole debt, as distinguished from a “joint” obligation, which binds the parties-each for his separate proportion of the debt. Groves y. Sentell, 153 U. S. 465, 14 Sup. Ct. 808, 38 L. Ed. 785.

art. ——-Possessor m fide. The possessor in bad faith is he who possesses as master, but who assumes this quality, when he.well knows that he has no title to the thing, ‘or that his title is vicious and defective. Civ.

art. 647. See PR2pIAL SEBVITUDE.

art. 2520.

art. 2195.

art. 894.

1900. art. 706—Public road. highway; a road or way established and adopted (or accepted as a dedication) by the Drover authorities for the use of the general public, and over which every person has a right to and to use it for all pu es of travel or transportation to which it is adapted and, devoted. Cincinnati R. Co. v. Com., y. 1388;

art. 2973.

art. 163.

art. 2240.

arts. 871-874.

1900, art. 1006.—Irregular succession. That which is established by law in favor of certain persons, or of the state, in default of heirs, either legal or instituted by testament. Civ. e - 1900, art. 878.—

1900, art. 3538, subd. 22.—_Paper title. A title to land evidenced by a conveyance or chain of conveyances; the term generally implying that such title, while {t has color or lausibility, is without substantial validity.— assive title. In Scotch law. A title incurred by an heir in heritage who does not enter as heir in the regular way, and therefore incurs liability for all the debts of the decedent, irretive of the amount of assets. Paterson.— erfect title. Various meanings have been

1838, arts. 300, 301..

1900, art. 534. a