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Contents of Testament

-Everyone- Testament (12)
Executor - Private executor - Universal executor - Universal executor of delivery of goods - Universal executor of realization of inheritance - Fourth vidual - Donation mortis causa - Intestate heirs: - Lying inheritance - Ius transmissionis - Executor's mission - Preterition -

Executor See file

He is an executor of the will....
Pperson who maintains a relationship de Trust with the testator, in charge of runr the provisions that you have set in the will, succession agreement or codicilo, among others required by the testator.  Source: Inheritance Law of Catalonia by Javier Gómez Taboada

BOE - Book IV Civil Code of Catalonia

Private executor See file

The testator grants specific powers to the designated person. ...
It is the trusted person of the testator, who can only run acts in which the testator has empowered him to do so, and failing that, the faculties  pointed out legally. Succession figure regulated in article 429-12CCCat.   Source: Inheritance Law of Catalonia by Javier Gómez Taboada

BOE - Book IV Civil Code of Catalonia

Universal executor See file

General powers that are granted to the person chosen by the testator. ...
It is lthe trusted person of the testator, has wide and diverse powers to execute the provisions established by the testator in his testament, succession agreement, covenant, or that other requirementsos donetwo. Succession figure regulated in article 429-8CCCat.  Source: Inheritance Law of Catalonia by Javier Gómez Taboada

BOE - Book IV Civil Code of Catalonia

Universal executor of delivery of goods See file

Powers acquired by the person who is instituted executor....
Schools acquired by the person who is instituted executor to: pay debts and inheritance charges and taxes caused by the succession, fulfill the legacies and otherss provisions testamentarypedit the fulfillment of the ways, pay the legitimate ones, carry out the acts of monetary realization established by article 429-9 CCCat to the extent necessary to make the payments referred to in the letters to) a d) and those of the corresponding expenses. The challenge of these device acts does not affect their validity against third party purchasers in good faith. In default that the testator has appointed a counter splitter, the executor will practice the partition of the inheritance in the case of the hereditary community.    Source: Inheritance Law of Catalonia by Javier Gómez Taboada

BOE - Book IV Civil Code of Catalonia

Universal executor of realization of inheritance See file

Powers granted by the testator to the Executor of the inheritance. ...
This executor this empowered to: Dispose of for consideration inheritance assets, collect credits and cancel their guarantees, withdraw deposits of all kinds, pay debts and inheritance charges and taxes caused by the succession, fulfill the legacies and other testamentary provisions, request compliance with the modes, pay the legitimate ones, and be able to perform all the acts that are necessary for the realization money of the inheritance assets.    Source: Inheritance Law of Catalonia by Javier Gómez Taboada

BOE - Book IV Civil Code of Catalonia

Fourth vidual See file

Right acquired by the widowed spouse or surviving member. ...
Right that the widowed spouse or surviving member of the domestic partnership can claim if a situation of need on the part of the survivor arises, for not having economic resources enough to satisfy your needs.    Source: Catalan inheritance law of Javier Gomez Taboada. Editorial Lex Nova, SA

BOE - Book IV Civil Code of Catalonia

Donation mortis causa See file

Donation made in consideration of the donor's death....
The donor does not transmit the donated thing to the donee until the transferor dies, since on the contrary it would be a donation inter alive There are two types of donation mortis causa: a) the one that implies the actual transmission of the donated object, being able be revocable in may be made by each moment by the donor until his death and staying adetraditional ineffective if donee dies before donor; and b) donation subject to suspensive condition in which the donor dies before the donee Source: Catalan inheritance law of Javier Gomez Taboada. Editorial Lex Nova, SA

BOE - Book IV Civil Code of Catalonia

Intestate heirs: See file

Those called by the order indicated by the Law....
In copen communityes autonomouss the order of calling may be different (depending on the legislation  applicable by default in that territory). Who is considered to have the right to succeed intestate of a deceased person without a will or that it is invalid are decendents, ancestors, spouse or person united by an analogous relationship of affection to the spouse, or their collateral relatives, and in their absence, the relevant administration for each autonomous community.    Source: Catalan inheritance law of Javier Gomez Taboada. Editorial Lex Nova, SA

BOE - Book IV Civil Code of Catalonia

Lying inheritance See file

Situation in which the inheritance is found, existing heirs, but waiting for them to accept or renounce the inheritance. Source: Catalan inheritance law of Javier Gomez Taboada. Editorial Lex Nova, SA BOE - Book IV Civil Code of Catalonia

Ius transmissionis See file

In this situation is the heir who is called to an inheritance and dies without accepting or repudiating the inheritance....
The appeal may be en will, due to a contractual inheritance or carefully by the opening of the abintestate. If he heir dies after the culprit, without having accepted or rejected the inheritance, The inheritance is passed on to the heir from the heir.      Source: Catalan inheritance law of Javier Gomez Taboada. Editorial Lex Nova, SA

BOE - Book IV Civil Code of Catalonia

Executor's mission See file

Person in charge of ensuring compliance with the wishes of the testator. ...
The trusted person of the testator which administers and watches over the assets and wills of this, in order to be meet the provisions found in the will and notarial documents.    Funete: Catalan Succession Law by Javier Gómez Taboada.


Preterition See file

It is the non-mention of a heirship in the testament or succession agreement; or the mention but without any patrimonial attribution....
 There are two types of preterition: a) the intentional: it derives from the will of the deceased not to mention the heirship or to leave nothing, so that he may claim his legitimacy from the heir of the deceased; and b) erroneous preterition: el testator ignores the existence of the legitimary, so that this is not mencited. Can carry consecuencias serious, such as the invalidity of the will.    Source: Catalan inheritance law of Javier Gomez Taboada. Editorial Lex Nova, SA

BOE - Book IV Civil Code of Catalonia


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