Page 179 - Important Provisions of The New Civil Code

One who validly renounces an inheritance is

deemed never to have possessed the same.

Article 534. On who succeeds by hereditary title

shall not suffer the consequences of the

wrongful possession of the decedent, if it is not

shown that he was aware of the flaws affecting

it; but the effects of possession in good faith

shall not benefit him except from the date of

the death of the decedent. (442)

Article 536. In no case may possession be

acquired through force or intimidation as long

as there is a possessor who objects thereto. He

who believes that he has an action or a right to

deprive another of the holding of a thing, must

invoke the aid of the competent court, if the

holder should refuse to deliver the thing. (441a)