Bukidnon State University
College of Law
SUCCESSION SYLLABUS
A. General provisions (Art. 774 - 782)
B. Testamentary succession (Art. 783 – 959)
1. Wills
2. Institution of heirs
3. Substitution of heirs
4. Conditional testamentary dispositions and those with a term
5. Legitime
6. Disinheritance
7. Legacies and devises
C. Legal or intestate succession (Art. 960 – 1014)
1. General provisions; relationship and right of representation
2. Order of intestate succession
D. Provisions common to testate and intestate succession
(Art. 1015 – 1105)
1. Right of accretion
2. Capacity to succeed by will or by intestacy
3. Acceptance and repudiation of inheritance
4. Partition and distribution of the estate
Prepared by:
Atty. FLAVIANO T. GAAPOL, JR.
Part-time Professor
Reviewed by/Date:
ATTY. SHERRYMAE O. VELOS-DECANG
Dean, College of Law