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Article 1002Conditioned Legacy

第千二条(負担付遺贈)

A person receiving a conditioned legacy is only liable for the performance of the obligations so borne up to the limit of the value of the object of the legacy.

負担付遺贈を受けた者は、遺贈の目的の価額を超えない限度においてのみ、負担した義務を履行する責任を負う。

If a legatee renounces the legacy, the person who would have benefitted by the burden may personally become a legatee; provided, however, that if the testator manifests different intention by will, that intention prevails.

受遺者が遺贈の放棄をしたときは、負担の利益を受けるべき者は、自ら受遺者となることができる。ただし、遺言者がその遺言に別段の意思を表示したときは、その意思に従う。

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