belong to the husband, and are intended to help him to support the charges of the matrimony, such as the maintenance of the husband and wife, that of their children, and other expenses which the husband deems proper.

ART. 2330.-The husband alone has the administration of the dowry, and his wife cannot deprive him of it; he may act alone in a court of justice, for the preservation or recovery of the dowry, against such as either owe or detain the same, but this does not prevent the wife from remaining the proprietor of the effects which she brought as her dowry.

ART. 2331.-In case, however, of the husband's absence or neglect to sue for the dotal effects of the wife, she may sue for them herself, having first been authorized by the proper judge.

ART. 2332.-It may likewise be stipulated by the marriage contract that the wife receive annually, upon her own acquittances, a part of her revenue, for her maintenance and personal wants.

ART. 2333.-The husband is not bound to give security upon his receiving the dowry, unless he has been bound to do so by the marriage contract.

ART. 2334.-If the dowry, or part of it, should consist in moveable effects, valued by the marriage contract without declaring that the estimated value of the same does not constitute a sale, the husband becomes the proprietor of such moveable effects, and owes nothing but the estimated value of the same.

ART. 2335.-The estimated value of slaves, settled as dowry, does not transfer the property of the same to the husband, unless there be an express declaration to that effect.

The property of dotal immoveables, whether valued or not, can never be transferred to the husband, even by express agreement.

ART. 2336.—An immoveable, bought with the dotal funds, is dotal.

It is the same with respect to the immoveable given in payment of a dowry settled in money.

ART. 2337.-Immoveables, settled as a dowry, can be sold or mortgaged, during the marriage, neither by the husband nor the wife, nor by both together, except as is hereinafter expressed.

ART. 2338.-The wife may, with the authorization of her husband, or, on his refusal, with the authorization of the judge, give her dotal effects for the establishment of the children she may have by a former marriage; but if she be authorized only by the judge, she is bound to reserve the enjoyment to her husband.

ART. 2339.-She may likewise, with the authorization of her husband, give her dotal effects for the establishment of their common children.

ART. 2340.-Immoveables, settled as dowry, may be alienated with the wife's consent, when the alienation of the same has been allowed by the marriage contract; but their value must be reinvested in other immoveables.

ART. 2341.-Such immoveable may be likewise sold, with the authorization of the judge, at public auction, after three advertisements or publications in the usual places or in the newspapers, for the purpose of liberating from jail either husband or wife; of supplying the family with food, in the cases provided for under the title of father and child; of paying the debts of the wife or of those who settled the dowry, when such debts are of a certain date prior to the marriage contract; or for the purpose of making heavy repairs indispensably necessary for the preservation of the immoveables settled as a dowry; and in fine, when the immoveable is held undivided with a third person, and the same is ascertained not to be susceptible of being divided.

In all such cases, what remains unemployed, out of the proceeds of the sale, above the necessities which have been the occasion of the sale, shall remain dotal effects,

and shall be laid out as such to the benefit of the wife. ART. 2342.-If, except as above expressed, the wife or husband, or both jointly, alienate the dotal estate, the wife or her heirs may cause the alienation to be set aside after the dissolution of the marriage; and no prescription shall run, during the marriage, in bar of this right. The wife shall have the same right, after the separation of property.

ART. 2343.-Immoveables, which are a part of the dowry, and which are not declared by the marriage contract liable to be alienated, are imprescriptible during the marriage; they become prescriptible after the separation of goods.

ART. 2344.-With respect to all the effects of the dowry, the husband is subject to all the obligations of the usufructuary.

ART. 2345.-If the dowry be exposed likely to be lost, the wife may sue for a separation of goods and chattels, as will be explained hereafter.

ART. 2346.-If the dowry consists of immoveables or slaves, or if it consists of moveables not valued by the marriage contract, or valued with a declaration that the valuation is not intended to divest the wife of her property in the same, the husband or his heirs may be compelled to restore the same without delay, after the dissolution of the marriage.

ART. 2347.-Should the dowry consist of a sum of money, or moveables valued by the marriage contract without a declaration that the estimated value is not intended to convey the property of the same to the husband, the restitution of the same cannot be enforced, until one year after the dissolution.

ART. 2348.-If any of the immoveables and slaves, the property of which is vested in the wife, have perished or grown worse by use, and without any neglect on the part of the husband, he shall be bound to restore

only such as may remain, and in the situation in which they are; nevertheless, the wife may, in all cases, take back her linen, clothing, and jewels, in her actual use, under the obligation of accounting for their value, when such linen, clothes, and jewels, have been, in the first instance, settled with estimation.

ART. 2349.-If the dowry includes bonds and credits which could not be recovered, whether owing to the insolvency of the debtors, or otherwise, but not owing to the fault or neglect of the husband, he shall not be answerable for the consequences, and shall be bound only to restore the deeds or vouchers upon which the debt is grounded.

ART. 2350.-If a dowry consists of usufruct, the husband or his heirs, at the time of the dissolution of the marriage, are bound only to return the right of the usufruct, and not the profits which accrued during the marriage.

ART. 2351.-If the dowry consists, in whole or in part, of herds or flocks, not valued in the marriage contract, or valued with a declaration that the estimated value does not deprive the wife of her property in the same, the husband shall be bound only to deliver such proportion of the increased or young, proceeding from such flocks and herds during the marriage, as shall be necessary to complete the whole number of head of cattle that he originally received.

But with respect to slaves constituted as a dowry, and not estimated in such a manner as to operate their sale, the husband is not bound to give others in the room of those who may be missing or dead, to supply the deficiencies which may have happened among them during the marriage, without any fault of his; he is bound only to deliver such as shall remain, in the state in which they may be, but he must include in this delivery the living children which may have been born from such slaves.

ART. 2352.-If the marriage has lasted ten years, since the time at which the payment of the dowry became due, the wife or her heirs may claim the same from the husband after the dissolution of the marriage, without being bound to prove that the husband has received it, unless the husband shall satisfactorily prove that he has uselessly done every thing in his power to obtain the payment of the same.

This responsibility of the husband does not hold, when the wife herself has promised the dowry, for in such case neither she nor her heirs could claim what she has not paid.

ART. 2353.-Ifthe marriage be dissolved by the death of the wife, the interests and profits of the dowry to be returned, run of right to the benefit of her heirs, from the day of the dissolution.

If it be by the death of her husband, the wife has her choice either to claim the interests of her dowry during the year of mourning, or to claim a sustenance to be taken out of the succession of her husband. But in both cases, she has a right during that year, to be supplied with habitation and mourning dresses out of the succession, which charges shall not be deducted out of the interests due to her.

ART. 2354.-If the lease, which the husband has granted of the dotal immoveable, has more than a year to run, at the dissolution of the marriage, it shall be released at the end of a year from the dissolution, if the lessee does not prefer to quit sooner the property rented.

ART. 2355.-The wife has a legal mortgage on the immoveables, and a privilege on the moveables of her husband, to wit:

1. For the restitution of her dowry, as well as for the replacing of her dotal effects which she brought at the time of her marriage, and which were alienated by her