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the testator has complied with the requirements of the preceding paragraph.

1073.

If a person who has been adjudged incompetent desires to make a will in a lucid interval, he must do so in the presence of two physicians.

The physicians present at the making of such a will, must add a certificate under their hands and seals that the testator at the time of making it was not in a mentally unsound state. In the case of a will made by a secret document the physicians must make the above mentioned certificate upon the cover under their hands and seals.

1074.

The following persons cannot act as witnesses or assistants at the making of a will:—

  1. Minors;
  2. Persons adjudged incompetent or quasi-incompetent;
  3. Persons who have been deprived permanently or temporarily of their public rights;
  4. The husband or wife of the testator;
  5. Expectant heirs or legatees and their husbands or wives or lineal blood relatives;
  6. Persons who are in the same house with the notary or his lineal blood relatives, and his clerks and servants.

1075.

Two or more persons cannot make their wills by a single document.

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