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Article 863. A fideicommissary substitution by

virtue of which the fiduciary or first heir

instituted is entrusted with the obligation to

preserve and to transmit to a second heir the

whole or part of the inheritance, shall be valid

and shall take effect, provided such substitution

does not go beyond one degree from the heir

originally instituted, and provided further, that

the fiduciary or first heir and the second heir are

living at the time of the death of the testator.

(781a)

Article 864. A fideicommissary substitution can

never burden the legitime. (782a)