(9) Servitudes Flashcards
A charge or burden upon a thing, usually an immovable, for the benefit of another person or another estate.
Servitude
What are the two kinds of servitudes.
personal and predial
What is a personal servitude?
charge on a thing for the benefit of a person
Name the three types of personal servitudes…
usufruct, habitation, rights of use
What is a predial servitude?
A charge on a servient estate for the benefit of a dominant estate. The estates must belong to two different owners.
When is a servitude presumed to be a predial servitude?
When the right granted be of a nature to confer an advantage on an estate
Re: Servitudes
True or False? When the right granted is merely for the convenience of a person, it is not considered to e a predial unless it is acquired by a person as owner of an estate for himself, his heirs and assigns
True
What are the three types of personal servitudes?
usufruct, habitation, right of use
Right of limited duration on the property of another
usufruct
Is usufruct corporeal or incorporeal?
Movable or immovable?
incorporeal
either
The person to whom a usufruct is granted
usufructuary
Can the usufructuary sell, donate, lease or encumber his right?
Yes
During the existence of the usufruct, can the naked owner sell or donate his naked ownership?
If so, how does it affect the rights of the usufructuary?
Yes
It doesn’t
True or false? The naked owner must not interfere with the rights of the usufructuary.
True
When the usufructuray sells or otherwise disposes of the property, or if it is destroyed, the usufruct transfers to….
the proceeds derived fro m the sale or insurance.
A thing that cannot be used without being expended or consumed, or without their substance being changed.
Give an example.
Consumable things
Money, harvested agricultural products, foodstuffs and beverages
Things that may be used without alteration of their substance or without being consumed or expended.
Give an example.
Non consumable things
land, houses, animals, furniture, cars
If the things subject to the usufruct are consumable, the ____________becomes the owner of them.
usufructuary
If the thing subject to the usufruct is noncomsumable, the usufructuary has the right to…..
posses and use the thing to the exclusion of the naked owner and enjoy the civil and natural fruits it may produce
The usufructuary has the obligation to preserve the _______of nonconsumable things.
substance
Does the right of usufruct extend to accessories of the thing at the commencement of the usufruct?
Yes
Natural fruits not served at the end of the usufruct belong to the __________.
naked owner
The usufructuary acquires the ownership of civil fruits accruing during the existence of the usufruct.
How do these civil fruits accrue?
day by day
True or false? The usufructuray entitled to the civil fruits of the land regardless of when they are received.
True
A cash dividend declared during the existence of the usufruct belongs to the ____________.
Usufructuary
A liquidation dividend or a stock redemption payments belongs to the _________subject to_____.
naked owner
the usufruct
A stock warrant and a subscription right declared during the existence of the usufruct belong to ________,
Are they subject to the usufruct?
the naked owner
no
Stock dividends and stock splits declared during the existence of the usufruct belong to the _________ subject to _________.
naked owner
the usufruct
The naked ownership may be partitioned subject to……
the rights of the usufruct.
A usufruct may be established either by what three means?
- juridical act during the life if the grantor
- the grantor’s express statement in his last will and testament
- by operation of law
When a usufruct is established by operation of law, it is called a _____ _______.
Legal usufruct
Usufruct may be established by a juridical act either ____ _____ or ____ ____, which means…..
inter vivos or mortis causa
inter vivos - during the lifetime of
mortis causa- upon the death of
A usufruct created by juridical act is called _____________.
Conventional
A usufruct created by operation of law is called
legal
The usufruct of parents over the property of their minor child has been repealed and replaced with a ________ ________ ________ _________.
parental right of administration
If the usufruct of a deceased spouse is survived by descendants, the surviving spouse SHALL/SHALL NOT have a usufruct over the decedent’s share of the community property to the extent that the decedent has not……
shall
disposed of it by testament
When does the usufruct of a surviving spouse terminate?
when the surviving spouse dies or remarries, whichever occurs first
In the case of juridical persons, when does a usufruct extend until?
30 years from it’s effective date or when the juridical persons cease to exist
In the case of a natural person, a usufruct extends until……
the death of the usufructuary
The right of usufruct expires upon….
the death of the usufructuary
A usufruct IS/IS NOT heritable…..
what does this mean?
is not
the usufructuary may not transfer his rights to successors
The usufructuary shall cause an __________ to be made of the property subject to the usufruct. Who conducts this?
Inventory
A notary public
The inventory of property required of a usufructuary is of the same nature and governed by the same procedures regarding inventory of _____ ______.
succession property
Re: usufructuaries What may substitute as a formal inventory?
a sworn, detailed, descriptive list passed before the notary public
A descriptive list in lieu of inventory must be
3 things) and then filed (2 things
- Be sworn to and subscribed by the person filing it
- show the location of all items of succession property
- set forth the fair market value of each item at the date of the death of the deceased
- with the department of Revenue
- in the succession proceeding