1447*  Sales  under  execution  Judgments  in  confirmation  of  title,
and  adjudications  in  forced  licitations,  when  they  take  place  before
the  opening  of  the  customary  dower,  whether  such  dower  results
from  the  law  alone,  or  has  been  stipulated,  do  not  affect  immoveables
subject  to  dower.
Nevertheless  if  the  sale  under  execution  take  place  at  the  suit  of  a
creditor  whose  claim  is  anterior  and  preferable  to  the  dower,  or  if  such
creditor  be  collocated  upon  any  of  the  said  proceedings,  the  alienation  or
the  confirmation  is  valid  and  the  immoveable  is  discharged.  The  cre-
ditors whose  claims  rank  subsequently,  who  in  such  case  receive  the
surplus  of  the  price,  are  bound  to  bring  it  back  if  the  dower  accrues
and  cannot  receive  the  moneys  without  giving  security  if  the  dower
be  apparent  upon  the  proceedings.
When,  as  in  the  first  case  mentioned  in  this  article,  the  dower  is
not  extinguished  by  the  sale  or  the  judgment  of  confirmation,  the
party  to  whom  the  property  has  been  adjudicated  or  who  has  obtain-
ed the  judgment  may  likewise,  when  he  has  been  evicted,  oblige  the
creditors  who  have  received  the  price  to  bring  it  back,  and  if  the
dower  appear  upon  the  proceedings,  the  creditors  are  not  collocated
unless  they  give  security  to  bring  Imck  whatever  portion  of  the
dower  they  may  receive.  If  the  creditors  refuse  to  give  security  the
person  to  whom  the  property  is  abjudicated  keeps  or  takes  back  the
amount  subject  to  dower,  upon  giving  security  himself  that  he  will

repay.
Customary  dower  when  open  does  not  fall  under  the  rules  of
this  article.— C.  S.  L.  C,  ch.  37,  ss,  1  et  seq. ;  C.  S.  C,  25  Vict,  cL  11.
