Civil Code Art. 1080: Provisions Common to

Statute: Civil Code
Article: Art. 1080
Topic: Provisions Common to Testate and Intestate Successions
Book: BOOK III DIFFERENT MODES OF ACQUIRING OWNERSHIP Preliminary Provision
Title: TITLE IV SUCCESSION
Chapter: CHAPTER 4 Provisions Common to Testate and Intestate Successions
Formerly: Art. 1056a of the old Civil Code
Year: 1949

The provision

Should a person make partition of his estate by an act inter vivos, or by will, such partition shall be respected, insofar as it does not prejudice the legitime of the compulsory heirs. A parent who, in the interest of his or her family, desires to keep any agricultural, industrial, or manufacturing enterprise intact, may avail himself of the right granted him in this article, by ordering that the legitime of the other children to whom the property is not assigned, be paid in cash. (1056a)

Cases applying this article

Araceli Mayuga v. Antonio Atienza G.R. No. 208197

Related provisions in this Chapter

Civil Code, Art. 1081 Provisions Common to Testate and Intestate Successions
Civil Code, Art. 1078 Provisions Common to Testate and Intestate Successions
Civil Code, Art. 1082 Provisions Common to Testate and Intestate Successions
Civil Code, Art. 1084 Provisions Common to Testate and Intestate Successions
Civil Code, Art. 1085 Provisions Common to Testate and Intestate Successions

Civil Code, Art. 1080 is found in CHAPTER 4 Provisions Common to Testate and Intestate Successions of TITLE IV SUCCESSION of BOOK III DIFFERENT MODES OF ACQUIRING OWNERSHIP Preliminary Provision of the Civil Code of the Philippines (Republic Act No. 386).

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