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the legacy within a reasonable time fixed by the notifier. If the legatee does not express his intention to the person bound by the legacy, the legacy is deemed to be accepted.

1090.

If a legatee dies without having accepted or refused the legacy, his heirs may within the limits of their right of succession, accept or refuse it. But if the testator has expressed a different intention in the will, such intention is to govern.

1091.

An acceptance or refusal of a legacy cannot be revoked.

The provisions of Art. 1022, 2 apply correspondingly to the acceptance and refusal of legacies.

1092.

A universal legatee has the same rights and duties as an heir to property.

1093.

A legatee may require the person bound on the legacy to give him security for it for so long as it is not yet performable. The same applies to a legacy to which a condition precedent is attached, for the time during which the condition is pending.

1094.

A legatee is entitled to the fruits from the time when

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