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ACQUETS, estates in the civil law. Property which has been acquired by purchase, gift or otherwise than by succession. Merlin Rep. h.t., confinesacquets to immovable property. 2. In Louisiana they embrace the profits of all the effects, of whichthe husband has the administration and enjoyment, either of right or infact, of the produce of the reciprocal industry and labor of both husbandand wife, and of the estates which they may acquire during the marriage,either by donations, made jointly to them both, or by purchase, or in anyother similar way, even although the purchase be only in the name of one ofthe two, and not of both, because in that case the period of time when thepurchase is made is alone attended to, and not the person who made thepurchase. Civ. Code, art. 2371. 3. This applies to all marriages contracted in that state, or out of it,when the parties afterward go there to live, as to acquets afterward madethere. Id. art. 2370. 4. The acquets are divided into two equal portions between the husbandand wife, or between their heirs at the dissolution of their marriage. Id.art. 2375. 5. The Parties may, however, lawfully stipulate there shall be nocommunity of profits or gains. Id. art. 2369. 6. But the parties have no right to agree that they shall be governed bythe laws of another country. 3 Martin's Rep. 581. Vide 17 Martin's Rep. 5712 Kent's Com. 153, note.

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