Key legal question
Whether the marriage contract clause allowed the surviving husband to acquire the wife's co-owned property despite her testament to their daughter.
Extracted holding
Yes. The husband could rely on the marriage-contract clause to acquire the wife's co-owned shares; the testament did not bar this because the clause could still be exercised and the wife had not specifically disposed of those rights otherwise.
Extracted reasoning
The court held that the clause under French law remained effective, the husband had not renounced it, no valid mise en demeure had been served, and the wife's testament did not specifically dispose of the disputed co-ownership shares.