Agreement as to succession (Erbvertrag)

Under Art. 25 of the European Succession Regulation, an "agreements as to succession" shall be governed, as regards its admissibility, its substantive validity and its binding effects between the parties, including the conditions for its dissolution, by the law which, under the Regulation, would have been applicable to the succession of that person if he had died on the day on which the agreement was concluded. Such an "agreement as to succesion" may result from a German mutal Will or a German contract of inheritance.