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731.

The provisions of Arts. 729, 2 and 730, 2 do not apply in the case of succession to the principal house, or of the establishment of a branch house or the re-establishment of a house which has been abandoned or extinguished.

Chapter II.
The Head and Members of a House.[1]

Section I.
General Provisions.

732.

Members of a house comprise such relatives of the head of the house as are in his house, and the husbands and wives of such relatives.

If the head of the house is changed, the former head and the members of his house are the members of the house of the new head.

733.

A child enters the house of his father.

A child whose father is unknown enters the house of his mother.

A child whose parents are unknown, establishes his own house.

  1. ↑ House means a family group united under the headship of one person.
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