The benefit of inventory produces the following effects in favor of the heir:\n(1) The heir shall not be bound to pay the debts and other charges on the inheritance except insofar as the property of the same may go.\n(2) He retains against the estate all the rights and actions which he may have had against the deceased.\n(3) His private property shall not be confused for any purpose whatsoever, to his injury, with the property belonging to the estate.\nHistory —Civil Code, 1930, § 977.
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