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relatives of the ancestor, or from among the heads of branch houses or members of the principal house or branch houses.

If there is no person among those above mentioned who can become heir to the house, the family council must choose the heir from among other persons.

The family council may choose another person without regard to the provisions of the foregoing two paragraphs only if some just cause exists and with the permission of the court.

Section III.
The Effect of the Succession to a House.

986.

The heir to a house succeeds, from the time when succession occurs, to the rights and duties of the former head of the house, except so far as these are merely personal.

687.

The ownership of the house documents, of the articles used for the religious rites of the house and of the house burial place are rights specially pertaining to the succession to a house.

988.

A head of a house who resigns, or a woman marrying a man who enters her house, may reserve his or her property by a document having an authenticated date. But this cannot be done so as to contravene the

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