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A person who has become a creditor of the heir to a house before the resignation is cancelled, may demand performance from the person who becomes head of the house in consequence of such cancellation; but without prejudice to his rights against the heir.

If the creditor at the time of acquiring his obligation had notice of the existence of the ground of cancellation, he can demand performance only from the heir. The same applies to those obligations of the heir which he had incurred before his succession to the headship, and also to such obligations as are merely personal to him.

The extinction of the right of the head of the house by resignation or by the marriage of a woman who is the head of the house with a man who enters her house can be set up against a creditor or debtor of the former head only from the time when he has received notice thereof from the former head or from his heir.

A person who has established a new house may abandon such house and enter another house.

A person who has become the head of a house by succession cannot abandon such house, except to succeed to or to re-establish the principal house, or for some other just cause with the permission of the court.

If the head of a house lawfully abandons his house and enters another house, the members of his house also enter the latter.