GUIDE QUESTIONS: 1. What is Succession? How does the Code define it? 2.

From the definition of Succession in Article 774, what is the nature of Succession? What are its elements? 3. Who are the subjects of Succession? 4. How does the Code define a decedent in Article 775? Who may be a decedent? May a juridical person be a decedent in Succession? 5. How does the Code define an heir in Article 782? Who may be an heir? 6. May a juridical person be an heir? 7. May a wealthy spinster make a will giving an inheritance to her cats? 8. Who is the heir in the disposition referred to in Article 1029? 9. What is the object of Succession? 10. What are included in the inheritance of a decedent? Are liabilities of the decedent part of his inheritance? Do heirs inherit the liabilities of the decedent? 11. Are the debts owing to the decedent inherited by his heirs?