Cap. 16 Art. 883Time for deliberating after inventory is completed.

When the inventory is completed, the heir who has not yet made the declaration of accepting the inheritance, shall be allowed the time of forty days, to be reckoned from the day of the completion of the inventory, to deliberate whether he would accept or renounce the inheritance; and if, within the said time, the heir has not made in the registry of the said court a declaration renouncing the inheritance, or accepting it under the benefit of inventory, he shall be deemed to have accepted it under the benefit of inventory.