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  "heading": "Retroactive effects of acceptance and renunciation",
  "text": "To the extent that he accepts rights to succeed, a successor is considered as having succeeded to those rights at the moment of death of the decedent. To the extent that a successor renounces rights to succeed, he is considered never to have had them.",
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