affecting her separate estate,
paraphernal or dotal.

Art. 135. The wife may make her last will without the authority
of her husband.

Art. 302. The following persons can not be tutors [_i. e._,
guardians]: 1. Minors, except the father and mother. 2. Women,
except the mother or grandmother. 3. Idiots and lunatics. 4.
Those whose infirmities prevent them from managing their own
affairs. 5. Those whom the penal law declares incapable of
holding a public office, etc.

Art. 1316. Married women, even if separated in property, can not
institute a suit for partition without the authorization of their
husbands or of the Judge.

Art. 1480. A married woman can not make a donation _inter vivos_
[between living persons] without the concurrence or special
consent of her husband, or unless she be authorized by the Judge.
But she needs neither the consent of her husband nor any judicial
authorization to dispose by donation _mortis causa_ [in prospect
of death].

Art. 1591. The following persons are absolutely incapable of
being witnesses to testaments: 1. Women of what age soever. 2.
Male children who have not attained the age of sixteen years
complete. 3. Persons who are insane, deaf, dumb or blind. 4.
Persons whom the criminal laws declare incapable of exercising
civil functions.

Art. 1664. A married woman can not accept a testamentary
executorship without the consent of her husband. If there is
between them a separation of property, she may accept it with the
consent of her husband, or, on his refusal, she may be authorized
by the courts.

Art. 1782. All persons have the capacity to contract, except
those whose incapacity is specially declared by law--these are
married women, those of insane mind, those who are interdicted,
and minors.

Art. 2335. The separate property of the wife is divided into
dotal and extradotal. Dotal property is that which the wife
brings to the husband to assist him in bearing the expenses of
the marriage establishment. Extradotal property, otherwise called
paraphernal property, is that which forms no part of the dowry.

Art. 2338. Whatever in the marriage contract is declared to
belong to the wife, or to be given to her on account of the
marriage by other persons than the husband, is part of