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  "heading": "Knowledge required of successor as prerequisite to acceptance or renunciation",
  "text": "An acceptance or renunciation is valid only if the successor knows of the death of the person to be succeeded and knows that he has rights as a successor. It is not necessary that he know the extent of those rights or the nature of his relationship to the decedent.",
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