Benefit of inventory
BENEFIT OF INVENTORY, civil law. The benefit of inventory is the privilege
which the heir obtains of being liable for the charges and debts of the
succession, only to the value of the effects of the succession, in causing
an inventory of these effects within the time and manner proscribed by law.
Civil Code of Louis. art. 1025. Vide Poth. Traits des Successions, c. 3, s.
3, a. 2.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.
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