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Article 940Administration by a Person Who Has Renounced a Succession

第九百四十条(相続の放棄をした者による管理)

A person who has renounced a succession and who is in actual possession of property belonging to the estate at the time of the renunciation must preserve that property with the same care that the person would exercise over the person's own property, until delivering it to the heir or to the liquidator of the estate referred to in Article 952, paragraph (1).

相続の放棄をした者は、その放棄の時に相続財産に属する財産を現に占有しているときは、相続人又は第九百五十二条第一項の相続財産の清算人に対して当該財産を引き渡すまでの間、自己の財産におけるのと同一の注意をもって、その財産を保存しなければならない。

Article 645; Article 646; and Article 650, paragraph (1) and paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to a case as referred to in the preceding paragraph.

第六百四十五条、第六百四十六条並びに第六百五十条第一項及び第二項の規定は、前項の場合について準用する。

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