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Fide-commissary substitution.— (1) The testamentary disposition whereby any heir or legatee is bound to preserve the inheritance or the legacy which on his death is to go to a further beneficiary is called the fide-commissary substitution or fidei-commissum and such heir or legatee is called fiduciary and such further beneficiary shall be called fideicommissarius. (2) It shall not be lawful to make a fide-commissary substitution in more than one degree.