Acquets

In Civil Law. Property Which has been acquired by purchase, gift, or otherwise than by succession. Immovable property which has been acquired otherwise than by succession.

Merlin.

Repert The profits of all the effects of which the husband has the administration and enjoyuce of the joint industry of both husband 1 and wife, and of the estates which they may acquire during the marriage, either by donations made jointly to them Loth, 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. This is the signification attached to the word in Louisiana; La. Civ. Code 2371. The rule applies to all marriages contracted in that state, or out of it, when the parties afterward go there to live, as to> acquets afterward made there. The acquets are divided into two equal portions between the husband and wife, or between their heirs at the dissolution of their marriage. The parties may, however, lawfully stipulate there shall be no community of profits or -rains; but have no right to agree that they shall be governed by the laws of another country; Bourcier v. Lanusse, 3 Mart. O. S. (La.) 581; Saul v. His Creditors, 5 Mart. N. S. (La.) 571, 16 Am. Dec. 212.

See 2 Kent 153, n.

See Community; Conquets. As to the sense in which it is used in Canada, see 2 Low. Can. 175.