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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:1595"
article_number: "1595"
status: active
heading: "Accretion to universal legatee"
breadcrumb: "Book III › Title II › Chapter 6 › Section 4"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=108922"
acts_citations_raw: "Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999."
acts_citations:
  - act_year: 1997
    act_number: 1421
    section: 1
    effective_date: 1999-07-01
    role: enactment
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---

# Art. 1595. Accretion to universal legatee

All legacies that lapse, and are not disposed of under the preceding Articles, accrete ratably to the universal legatees.

When a general legacy is phrased as a residue or balance of the estate without specifying that the residue or balance is the remaining fraction or a certain portion of the estate after the other general legacies, even though that is its effect, it shall be treated as a universal legacy for purposes of accretion under this Article.