53. The property of an absentee who has no attorney or whose attorney is unknown or refuses to act, is administered by the Administrator General or curator.
54. A curator may be appointed in the place of the Administrator General at the instance of those interested, as provided in the Book respecting Minority and Tutorship; or if there be no minors concerned in the property, at the instance of a creditor.
55. Curators to the property of absentees make oath faithfully to fulfil the duties of their office and to account.
56. The curator is bound to cause to be made, in notarial form, a faithful inventory and valuation of all the property committed to his or her charge, and for his or her administration he or she is liable to the same obligations as those to which tutors are subject.
57. The powers of the curator extend to acts of administration only. He or she can neither alienate, pledge nor hypothecate the property of the absentee without special permission from the Court or Judge.
58. The curatorship to the absentee is brought to an end:
1. By his or her return;
2. By his or her sending a power of attorney to the curator or to any other person;
3. When his heirs are authorised to take provisional possession of his or her property.