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738.

If a person who has entered another house by marriage or adoption desires that a relative, who is not also a relative of his or her wife or husband or of the adopter, should enter that house, he must not only comply with the provisions of the preceding article, but must also obtain the consent of his or her wife or husband, as the case may be, or of the adopter.

The same applies, if a person who has quit a house which he entered by marriage or adoption desires that a descendant of his, who is a member of that house, should become a member of his house.

739.

A person who has entered another house by marriage or adoption goes back to his original house on divorce or on dissolution of the adoption.

740.

A person who under the provisions of the preceding article ought to go back to his original house, but cannot do so because that house has been abandoned or extinguished, establishes a new house; but this does not effect the right to re-establish his original house.

741.

If a person who by marriage or adoption has entered another house desires again to enter another house by marriage or adoption, he must obtain the consent of both the head of the house which he has entered and of the head of his original house.

In such case the head of the house who has not given his consent, may within one year from the time

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