Article 596: The recipient of a lifetime rent

1. Life-long rents may be fixed for the life of a citizen who transfers property for rent or for the life of another citizen who is designated by him. Stolen rents in favour of a number of citizens whose shares in the right to rent are considered equal, unless otherwise provided for by the contract for the life of the rent. Its share of the right to rent passes to the surviving recipients of the rent, unless the contract provides otherwise, and in the event of the death of the last recipient of the rent 3. The contract establishing a lifetime rent in favour of a citizen who died at the time of the conclusion of the contract is null and void.