Cap. 55 Art. 38Procedure when any of the appearers is dumb, or deaf and dumb.

Saving in regard to wills, the provisions of articles 597 and

668 of the Civil Code, where any of the appearers is dumb, or deaf and dumb, besides the rule laid down in the last preceding article as to the presence of the interpreter the following rules shall be observed:

(a) the appearer who is dumb, or deaf and dumb and can read and write shall himself read the act and write at the end thereof, before the signatures, that he has read it and found it to be in accordance with his will;

(b) if such appearer does not know how to or cannot read and write, it shall be necessary that his sign-language be understood also by one of the witnesses, or, otherwise, that a second interpreter be present at the execution of the act in accordance with the rules laid down in article 37(2), (3), (4) and (5).