Facts
The case concerns the estate of V., who left five sons and three daughters as legal heirs. The estate includes, in particular, two agricultural parcels, one with a residential house, a barn, and outbuildings, the other with a barn and horse stalls. Son E. (the applicant) has requested that these two parcels be attributed to him at the simple yield value. The other heirs have appealed the decision of the court of first instance, requesting that the properties be valued at the market value and distributed among the heirs.Considerations
The Federal Tribunal has upheld the appeal, largely annulled the contested decision, and remanded the case to the previous instance for a new decision. It considered that the applicant could not claim attribution of the parcels under Art. 21(1) RLRA, as he was not the owner of an agricultural enterprise. Neither the leased properties nor those to be attributed within the…