Acquets

estates, in the civil law. Property which has been acquired by purchase, gift, or otherwise than by succession. Merlin Rép. h. t., confines acquets to immoveable property. In Louisiana they embrace the profits of all the effects of which the husband has the administration and enjoyment, either of right or in fact, of the produ¢e of the reciprocal industry and labour of both husband and 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 any other similar way, even although the purchase be only in the name of one of the two and not of both, because in that case the period of time when the purchase is made is alone attended to, and not the person who made the purchase. Civ. Code, art.

2371.

This applies to all marriages contracted in that state, or out of it, when the parties afterwards go there to live, as to acquets afterwards made there. Ib. art.

2370.

The acquets are divided into two equal portions between the husband and wife, or between their heirs at the dissolution of the marriage. Ib. art.

2375.

The parties may however lawfully stipulate there shall be no community of profits or gains. Ib. art.

2369.

But the parties have no right to agree that they shall be governed by the laws of another country..

3 Martin’s Rep. 581. Vide 17 Martin’s Rep. 571; 2 Kent’s Com. 153, note.