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406 OBLIGATIONS
However, the gift has no effect as regards third parties
except in accordance with the Book on Publication of Rights.
Section II
Gifts made by marriage contracts
482 Gifts inter vivos made in marriage contracts are governed
by the rules relating to gifts.
483 A gift made in a matrimonial agreement takes effect at
the same time as the agreement itself.
484 Only future consorts or consorts may be donors.
485 Only future consorts, consorts, their respective children,
and the issue of the union born or to be born may be donees.
The consent of the children born or to be born is
presumed.
486 A contractual institution and any other gift mortis causa
may be made only in a marriage contract.
They are governed by the rules on wills, except as to
their form.
487 A contractual institution and any other gift mortis causa
are always revocable if they are universal or by general title.
488 A contractual institution and any other gift mortis causa
are presumed revocable if made by particular title.
If they are stipulated as irrevocable, the donor may not
dispose by gratuitous title of the property given by deed inter
vivos or by will.
489 Any stipulation inconsistent with this chapter is without
effect.