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Book 5 · Law of succession  ›  Division 9 · Purchase of an inheritance › Section 2376

Liability of the seller

(1) The liability of the seller for defects of title is limited to their having a right of succession, to it not being limited by the right of a reversionary heir or by the appointment of an executor, to there being no legacies, testamentary burdens, compulsory share burdens, duties to adjust advancements or directions concerning the partitioning of the estate and for there being no unlimited liability towards all the creditors of the estate or individual creditors of the estate.

(2) The seller is not liable for material defects in an object belonging to the inheritance unless they have fraudulently failed to disclose a defect or have assumed a guarantee for the nature of the object.

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