Chapter 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS ARTICLE 774. Succession is a mode of acquisition by virtue of which the property, rights and obligations to the extent of the value of the inheritance, of a person are transmitted through his death to another or others either by his will or by operation of law. (n) I. A new provision, from Scaevola. II. Succession as treated in the Civil Code: The Code has simplified the concept of succession and treats it simply as a mode of acquiring ownership. It is one of the seven legally recognized modes of acquiring ownership. Hence, Article 774 is to be correlated with Article 712. 1 III. Overlap of codal definition with Article 776: A careful reading of this article and of Article 776 will show an overlap of the two provisions. Article 774 talks of “pro- perty, rights and obligations to the extent of the value of the inheritance.” Article 776, on the other hand, talks of the “in- 1 Art. 712. Ownership is acquired by occupation and by intellectual creation. Ownership and other real rights over property are acquired and trans- mitted by law. by donation, by testate and intestate succession, and in conse- quence of certain contracts, by tradition. They may also be acquired by means of prescription. (609a) 1