Chapter IV: Of Access and Judicial Inspection

If the judge considers it necessary to go to the place of controversy and inspect the controverted thing itself, he is to prescribe this by decree, by which, after the parties have been heard, he is to describe summarily those things which must be done in the access.

The judge can carry out the inspection either personally by himself or through an auditor or delegated judge.

§ 1. The judge, inspecting the thing or place, can employ experts, if their work seems necessary or useful.

§ 2. If experts are employed, the things prescribed in can. 1793-1805 are to be observed insofar as possible.

If it seems to the judge that the danger of quarrel or disturbance must be feared, he can prohibit the parties or their advocates from being present at the judicial inspection.

The judge can subject witnesses, either summoned from office or duly produced by the parties before the inspection, to examination in the judicial access itself, if this seems expedient for fuller proof or for removing doubts because of which the inspection had to be decreed.

§ 1. The notary is to take diligent care that it is established from the acts on what day and hour the inspection was made, what persons were present, and what things, during the inspection, were either said or carried out or decreed by the judge.

§ 2. Both the judge and the notary are to sign the instruments of the completed inspection.