Legitime
This term refers to the portion of the testator's property reserved by law for compulsory heirs, which the testator cannot dispose of except in the cases provided by law.
Legitime
This refers to the ascendant who inherits property by operation of law from a descendant and is obliged to reserve it
Reservista
What is the form of substitution takes place when the testator designates another heir to take the inheritance in default of the original heir?
Simple substitution
What is the type of term where the effects and enjoyment of the institution cease or terminate upon the arrival of the designated day?
Resolutory term
When multiple testamentary heirs are instituted without designation of specific shares, the law presumes that the portion is __
Equal (equality of shares)
If a testator dies leaving behind two legitimate children and no other primary compulsory heirs, this fraction represents the collective legitime guaranteed to those children.
Who are legitimate children or legitimate descendants?
Who is also known as the "arbiter of the reserva"?
Prepositus
What do you call the first heir who receives the property upon the testator's death with the dual obligation to preserve and transmit it?
Fiduciary
Pending the arrival of a suspensive term under Article 885, paragraph 2, the estate property is delivered into the possession of the legal (intestate) heirs, provided they post __
Caución Muciana
The statement of __ in a will generally does not invalidate the institution, except if it appears from the face of the will that the testator would not have made the institution had they known __
False cause, the cause was false.
Under Article 887, these compulsory heirs completely exclude legitimate parents and ascendants from inheriting any portion of the legitime.
Who are legitimate children and descendants?
When the reservista dies, the surviving reservatarios inherits from __
Prepositus
Recognized under Article 860, this specific variation of substitution refers to the designation of two or more substitutes for a single original heir.
Brief substitution
In an institution subject to a resolutory term, the instituted heir takes immediate possession upon death without posting security, but upon the expiration of the term, the property is turned over to __
Intestate heirs
This total omission of a compulsory heir in the direct line completely annuls the institution of universal heirs.
Preterition of heirs
The legitime of a single surviving illegal or illegitimate child relative to the legitime of a single legitimate child is in this fixed mathematical ratio.
What is one-half (1/2)
When a Prepositus leaves a will conveying both reservable and non-reservable assets to an ascendant, this prevailing civil law theory dictates that every asset is treated as passing proportionally by will and by law to compute the reserved amount.
Reserva Minima
The second heir in a fideicommissary substitution must not exceed the statutory limit of relationship relative to the first heir
A testator is survived only by a surviving spouse and legitimate parents, this is the specific fraction of the estate that constitutes the legitime of the surviving spouse.
What is one-fourth (1/4) of the estate?
What are the requisites of reserva troncal?