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Sources of law

Legislation

Custom

Absence of legislation or custom

Ignorance of law

Retroactivity of laws

Laws for the preservation of the public interest

Repeal of laws

Clear and unambiguous law

Language susceptible of different meanings

Meaning of words

Ambiguous words

Laws on the same subject matter

Multistate cases

Kinds of persons

Commencement and end of natural personality

Art. 26. Unborn child

General legal capacity

Capacity to make juridical acts

Age of majority

Presumption of death

Existence of a person at time of accrual of a right

Domicile

Domicile and residence

Domicile of spouses

Domicile of unemancipated minor.

Domicile of interdict

Domicile of person under continued or permanent tutorship

Change of domicile

Proof of intent to change domicile

Person holding temporary position

Curator of an absent person's property

Powers, rights, and duties of curator

Legal capacity of absent person

Termination of curatorship of right

Termination by judgment of declaration of death

Effects of termination of curatorship

Validity of acts of curator after termination of the curatorship

Absent person; declaration of death

Declaration of death; effect

New evidence as to time of death

Reappearance of absent person; recovery of his property

Succession rights of person presumed dead or declared dead

Reappearance of absent person; recovery of his inheritance

Arts. 60 to 85 repealed by Acts 1990, No. 989, 1, eff. January 1, 1991.

Marriage; definition

Contract of marriage; requirements

Impediment of existing marriage

Impediment of same sex

Impediments of relationship

Impediment of age

Marriage ceremony required

Marriage by procuration prohibited

Vices of consent

Absolutely null marriage

Relatively null marriage; confirmation

Civil effects of absolutely null marriage; putative marriage

Civil effects of relatively null marriage

Mutual duties of married persons

Family authority

Surname of married persons

Termination of marriage

Judgment of divorce; living separate and apart prior to rule

Judgment of divorce; other grounds

Judgment of divorce; time periods

Reconciliation

Determination of incidental matters

Spousal support; authority of court

Determination of final periodic support

Interim spousal support

Modification or termination of award of support

Extinguishment of support obligation

Modification of spousal support obligation

Peremptive period for obligation

Repealed

Claim for contributions to education or training; authority of court

Nature of action

Form of award; effect of remarriage or death

Prescription of spousal claim for contributions

Court to determine custody

Award of custody to parents

Award of custody to person other than a parent; order of preference

Factors in determining child's best interest

Closed custody hearing

Award of visitation rights

Award of visitation rights

Denial of visitation; felony rape; death of a parent

Child support; authority of court

Modification or termination of child support award

Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1009, 9, eff. Jan. 1, 1991.

Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1009, 9, eff. Jan. 1, 1991.

Proceeding for declaration of nullity of a marriage; interim incidental relief

Proceeding for declaration of nullity of a marriage; final incidental relief

Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1009, 9, eff. Jan. 1, 1991.

Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1009, 9, eff. Jan. 1, 1991.

Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1009, 9, eff. Jan. 1, 1991.

Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1009, 9, eff. Jan. 1, 1991.

Effect of divorce on community property regime

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Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1008, 6, eff. Jan. 1, 1991.

Arts. 162 to 175 Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 705, 1.

Definition

Establishment of filiation

Maternity

Presumption of paternity of husband

Presumption if child is born after divorce or after death of husband; effect of disavowal

Disavowal action; proof

Disavowal precluded in case of assisted conception

Time limit for disavowal by the husband

Time limit for disavowal by heir or legatee

Three-party acknowledgment; alternative to disavowal; time period

Contestation and establishment of paternity by mother

Contestation action; proof

Contestation and establishment of paternity; time period

Judgment in contestation action

Presumption by marriage and acknowledgment; child not filiated to another man; proof; time period

Formal acknowledgment; presumption

Child's action to establish paternity; proof; time period

Father's action to establish paternity; time period

Effect of adoption.

Adoption of minors

Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 192, §1, eff. June 29, 2005.

Repealed by Acts 1979, No. 607, 4.

Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 192, §1, eff. June 29, 2005.

Repealed by Acts 1979, No. 607, 4.

Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 192, §1, eff. June 29, 2005.

Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 192, §1, eff. June 29, 2005.

Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 192, §1, eff. June 29, 2005.

Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 192, §1, eff. June 29, 2005.

Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 192, §1, eff. June 29, 2005.

Repealed by Acts 1980, No. 549, 2.

Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 192, §1, eff. June 29, 2005.

Adult adoption requirements

Adult adoption; form

Adult adoption; recordation requirement

Repealed

Repealed

Repealed

Repealed

Repealed

Repealed

Authority of married parents

Representation of minor

Rights and obligations of parental authority

Parental obligation of support and education

Parental liability for child's offenses and quasi-offenses

Parental obligation of direction

Parental control

Child's obligation of obedience; parental correction

Administration of the property of the child

Alienation, encumbrance, or lease of the property of the child; expenditure of fruits

Parents' obligation to deliver and account

Parental authority

Delegation of parental authority

Parental authority; custody award

Termination of parental authority

Filial honor and respect

Obligation of providing the basic necessities of life; ascendants and descendants; exceptions

Amount of support

Modification or termination of support

Repealed

Repealed

Repealed

Repealed

Repealed

Repealed

Occasion for tutorship.

Kinds of tutorships.

Modes of establishment of tutorships.

Accountability of tutor.

Persons entitled to tutorship

Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.

Unborn and posthumous children.

Repealed by Acts 1974, No. 163, 2.

Arts. 254, 255 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2

Children born outside of marriage

Surviving parent's right of appointment.

Right of appointment where parents are divorced or separated

Option of acceptance of tutorship.

Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.

Child born outside of marriage

Appointment of several tutors; order of priority.

Qualified ascendants; collaterals by blood; surviving spouse.

Occasion for tutorship.

Necessity for appointment.

Liability concerning minor's legal mortgage.

Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.

Termination of undertutorship.

Arts. 281 to 291 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.

Excuse by reason of office or function.

Waiver of excuse by subsequent acceptance of tutorship.

Subsequently acquired excuse.

Excuse for remote relationship.

Excuse for age.

Excuse for infirmity.

Excuse for prior tutorships

Time to present excuse.

Provisional administration pending consideration of excuse.

Parent's unconditional obligation of tutorship.

Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2

Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.

Duty to apply for appointment.

Minors exempt from taking application.

Liability for failure to make application.

Action for damages; prescription.

Minor's legal mortgage on tutor's property.

Sale of mortgaged property by one claimant; inscription of legal mortgage of remaining minors.

Alienation of minor's immovables.

Repealed by Acts 2001, No. 572, 2.

Interest.

Agreements between tutor and minor.

Prescription of minor's action against tutor.

Procedure for placing under tutorship.

Petition for continuing or permanent tutorship

Title of proceedings; procedural rules; parents as tutor and undertutor.

Decree, place of recording, notice.

Authority, privileges, and duties of tutor and undertutor; termination of tutorship.

Restriction on legal capacity.

Parents' rights of administration.

Contest of decree restricting legal capacity.

Persons subject to interdiction.

Emancipation

Judicial emancipation

Emancipation by marriage

Limited emancipation by authentic act

Emancipation; when effective

Modification and termination of judicial emancipation

Modification or termination of limited emancipation by authentic act

Full interdiction

Limited interdiction

Temporary and preliminary interdiction

Curators

Undercurators

Pre-interdiction juridical acts

Capacity to make juridical acts

Effective date of judgment of interdiction

Modification and termination of interdiction

Effective date of modification or termination of a judgment of interdiction

Responsibility for wrongful filing of interdiction petition

Division of things.

Common things.

Public things.

Seashore.

Public things and common things subject to public use.

Private things.

Freedom of disposition by private persons.

Private things subject to public use.

Banks of navigable rivers or streams.

Roads; public or private.

Works obstructing the public use.

Building encroaching on public way.

Construction of navigation facilities on public places by port commissions or municipalities.

Corporeals and incorporeals.

Tracts of land.

Component parts of tracts of land.

Buildings and standing timber as separate immovables.

Things incorporated into an immovable.

Component parts of a building or other construction

Immovables by declaration.

Deimmobilization.

Transfer or encumbrance of immovable.

Incorporeal immovables.

Corporeal movables.

Building materials.

Incorporeal movables.

Movables by anticipation.

Things not immovable.

Rights in things.

Ownership; content

Resolutory condition; real right in favor of other person.

Necessity of a person.

Co-ownership.

Ownership and possession distinguished.

Accession.

Ownership of fruits by accession.

Young of animals.

Fruits produced by a third person; reimbursement.

Possessor's right to fruits.

Possessor in good faith; definition.

Products; reimbursement of expenses.

Apportionment of fruits.

Accession above and below the surface.

Buildings, other constructions, standing timber, and crops.

Separate ownership of part of a building.

Ownership of improvements

Ownership of component parts

Loss of ownership by accession; claims of former owner

Constructions by landowner with materials of another.

Things incorporated in, or attached to, an immovable with the consent of the owner of the immovable.

Constructions by possessor in good faith.

Constructions by bad faith possessor.

Claims against third persons

Alluvion and dereliction.

Shore of the sea or of a lake.

Division of alluvion.

Sudden action of waters.

Island formed by river opening a new channel.

Ownership of abandoned bed when river changes course.

Islands and sandbars in navigable rivers.

Ownership of beds of nonnavigable rivers or streams.

Accession as between movables.

Things principal and accessory.

Value or bulk as a basis to determine principal thing.

Union of a principal and an accessory thing.

Ownership of new thing made with materials of another.

Effect of bad faith.

Use of materials of two owners; separation or co-ownership.

Mixture of materials.

Recovery of materials or value in lieu of ownership.

Liability for unauthorized use of a movable.

Voluntary transfer of ownership of an immovable

Voluntary transfer of the ownership of a movable

Transfer of action for recovery of movable.

Repealed by Acts 1981, No. 125, 1.

Lost or stolen thing.

Transfer of ownership by owner under annullable title.

Good faith; definition.

Recovery of lost or stolen things.

Registered movables.

Recognition of ownership; recovery of the thing.

Necessary expenses.

Useful expenses.

Right of retention.

Presumption of ownership of movable.

Proof of ownership of immovable.

Common author.

Kinds of servitudes.

Personal servitude.

Usufruct.

Consumable things.

Nonconsumable things.

Usufruct of consumable things

Usufruct of nonconsumable things.

Nature of usufruct.

Divisibility of usufruct.

Divisibility of naked ownership.

Partition of the property in kind or by licitation

Methods of establishing usufruct; things susceptible of usufruct.

Modifications of usufruct.

Usufruct in favor of successive usufructuaries.

Usufruct in favor of several usufructuaries.

Existence of usufructuaries.

Capacity to receive usufruct

Right to all fruits.

Kinds of fruits.

Corporate distributions.

Voting of shares of stock and other rights

Commencement of the right to fruits.

Nonapportionment of natural fruits.

Apportionment of civil fruits.

Possession and use of the things.

Improvements and alterations

Accessories.

Trees, stones, and other materials.

Mines and quarries.

Usufruct of timberlands.

Alluvion.

Treasure.

Predial servitudes.

Actions.

Contracts affecting the usufructuary's liability

Disposition of nonconsumable things

Donation and alienation

Right to lease

Requirement to remove encumbrance

Duties with regard to things gradually or totally impaired

Inventory.

Security

Amount of security.

Dispensation of security

Delay in giving security

Failure to give security

Standard of care.

Liability for repairs

Ordinary and extraordinary repairs.

Rights of action for repairs.

Reimbursement for necessary repairs

Liability for necessary expenses

Abandonment of usufruct.

Ruin from accident, force majeure, or age

Periodic charges

Extraordinary charges.

Liability for debts; usufruct inter vivos

Liability for debts; usufruct established mortis causa

Discharge of debt on encumbered property; usufruct established inter vivos

Discharge of debt on encumbered property by mortis causa usufructuary

Encumbered property; discharge of debt on encumbered property by naked owner

Continuation of usufruct after sale of property

Multiple usufructuaries; contribution to payment of estate debts

Discharge of legacy of annuity

Court costs; expenses of litigation

Expenses of litigation; legal usufruct.

Expenses of litigation; conventional usufruct.

Liability of the usufructuary for servitudes.

Duty to give information to owner.

Usufruct of a herd of animals.

Disposition of animals.

Removal of improvements

Set off against damages.

Disposition of the naked ownership; alienation or encumbrance of the property

Servitudes

Toleration of the enjoyment.

Improvements.

Death of the usufructuary.

Dissolution of juridical person; thirty year limitation

Termination of legacy of revenues.

Usufruct for a term or under condition.

Term; transfer of usufruct to another person.

Term; third person reaching a certain age.

Loss, extinction, or destruction of property

Fault of a third person.

Change of the form of property

Sale or exchange of the property; taxes

Proceeds of insurance.

Security for proceeds

Changes made by the testator

Sale of the property or of the usufruct

Prescription of nonuse.

Confusion of usufruct and naked ownership.

Abuse of the enjoyment; consequences

Security to prevent termination

Intervention by creditors of the usufructuary

Renunciation; rights of creditors.

Right of retention.

Consequences of termination; usufruct of nonconsumables.

Consequences of termination; usufruct of consumables.

Habitation.

Establishment and extinction.

Regulation by title.

Persons residing in the house.

Extent of right of habitation.

Degree of care; duty to restore the property.

Taxes, repairs, and other charges.

Nontransferable and nonheritable right.

Duration of habitation.

Right of use.

Content of the servitude.

Persons having the servitude.

Extent of the servitude.

Transferable right.

Heritable right.

Regulation of the servitude.

Predial servitude; definition.

Benefit to dominant estate.

Contiguity or proximity of the estates.

Nature; incorporeal immovable.

Inseparability of servitude

Obligations of the owner of the servient estate

Indivisibility of servitude.

Division of advantages.

Kinds of predial servitudes.

Natural drainage.

Obligations of the owners.

Estate bordering on running water.

Estate through which water runs.

Legal servitudes; notion.

Keeping buildings in repair

Building in danger of falling.

Building near a wall.

Projections over boundary.

Rain drip from roof.

Legal public servitudes.

River road; substitution if destroyed or impassable.

Limitations on use of property

Inconvenience to neighbor.

Regulation of inconvenience.

Encroaching building.

Destruction of private property to arrest fire.

Other legal servitudes.

Common wall servitude.

Contribution by neighbor.

Presumption of common wall.

Adjoining wall.

Rights and obligations of co-owners.

Cost of repairs.

Abandonment of common wall.

Rights in common walls.

Art. 681.

Raising the height of common wall.

Neighbor's right to make the raised part common.

Enclosures.

Common fences.

Common ditches.

Trees, bushes, and plants on the boundary.

Branches or roots of trees, bushes, or plants on neighboring property.

Enclosed estate; right of passage

Extent of passage

Constructions

Location of passage

Enclosed estate; voluntary act.

Enclosed estate; voluntary alienation or partition

Relocation of servitude.

Prescriptibility of action for indemnity.

Utility

Right to establish predial servitudes; limitations.

Property susceptible of servitudes.

Examples of predial servitudes.

Servitude of support.

Servitude of view.

Prohibition of view.

Servitude of light.

Prohibition of light.

Servitude of passage

Servitudes; affirmative or negative.

Servitudes; apparent or nonapparent.

Establishment of predial servitude.

Mandatary.

Naked owner.

Usufructuary.

Owner for a term or under condition.

Purchaser with reservation of redemption.

Co-owner; servitude on entire estate.

Exercise of the servitude.

Servitude on undivided part.

Partition in kind.

Partition by licitation.

Successor of the co-owner.

Additional servitudes.

Servitude on mortgaged property.

Modes of establishment.

Servitudes on public things.

Multiple dominant or servient estates.

Reciprocal servitudes.

Servitude on after-acquired property.

Servitude on part of an estate.

Limitation of use.

Conventional alteration of legal or natural servitude.

Interpretation of servitude.

Charge expressly for the benefit of an estate.

Interpretation in the absence of express declaration.

Interpretation; benefit of dominant estate.

Interpretation; convenience of a person.

Persons acquiring servitude.

Capacity to acquire servitude.

Renunciation of servitude by owner of dominant estate.

No revocation by grantor.

Acquisition by title only.

Modes of acquisition of servitudes.

Destination of the owner.

Acquisitive prescription.

Accessory rights.

Necessary works; cost of repairs.

Right to enter into the servient estate.

Exoneration from responsibility by abandonment of the servient estate.

Division of dominant estate.

Noninterference by the owner of servient estate.

Extent and manner of use of servitude when title is silent.

Location of servitude when the title is silent.

Destruction of dominant or of servient estate.

Reestablishment of things.

Prescription for nonuse.

Commencement of nonuse.

Obstacle to servitude.

Failure to rebuild dominant or servient estate.

Sufficiency of acts by third persons.

Imprescriptibility of natural servitudes.

Partial use.

More extensive use than title.

Use of accessory right.

Use by co-owner.

Minority or other disability.

Burden of proof of use.

Confusion.

Resolutory condition.

Acceptance of succession; confusion

Confusion; separate and community property.

Irrevocability of extinction by confusion.

Abandonment of servient estate.

Renunciation of servitude.

Renunciation by owner.

Expiration of time or happening of condition.

Dissolution of the right of the grantor.

Building restrictions.

Establishment

Nature and regulation.

Affirmative duties

Injunctive relief.

Amendment and termination of building restrictions

Termination; liberative prescription.

Abandonment of plan or of restriction.

Matters of interpretation and application

Boundary; marker.

Fixing of the boundary.

Persons who may compel fixing of boundary.

Lessee may compel lessor.

Imprescriptibility of the right.

Fixing of boundary judicially or extrajudicially.

Costs.

Liability for unauthorized removal of markers.

Fixing of boundary according to ownership or possession

Determination of ownership according to titles.

Determination of ownership according to prescription.

Effect of boundary agreement.

Error in the location of markers; rectification.

Ownership in indivision; definition

Right to fruits and products

Liability of a co-owner

Preservation of the thing

Use and management by agreement

Right to use the thing

Use and management of the thing in the absence of agreement

Substantial alterations or improvements

Disposition of undivided share

Expenses of maintenance and management

Right to partition; exclusion by agreement

Partition excluded

Judicial and extrajudicial partition

Partition in kind

Partition by licitation or by private sale

Effect of partition on real rights

Partition in kind

Rescission of partition for lesion

Partition by licitation

Partition in kind; warranty

Imprescriptibility of action

Other rights held in indivision

Arts. 819 to 822 Repealed by Acts 1977, No. 514, 1.

Arts. 823 to 855 Repealed by Acts 1977, No. 170, 1

Arts. 856 to 869 Repealed by Acts 1977, No. 169, 1.

Modes of acquiring ownership

Meaning of succession

Meaning of estate

Kinds of succession

Testate succession

Intestate succession

Kinds of successors

Art. 877.

Art. 878.

Art. 879.

Intestate succession

Representation: effect

Representation in direct line of descendants

Representation of ascendants not permissible

Representation in collateral line

Basis of partition in cases of representation

Representation of deceased persons only

Representation of decedent whose succession was renounced

Succession rights of descendants

Devolution of community property

Usufruct of surviving spouse

Devolution of separate property; parents and brothers and sisters

Devolution of separate property in absence of parents or in absence of brothers and sisters

Brothers and sisters related by half-blood

Separate property; rights of surviving spouse

Separate property; rights of other ascendants

Separate property; rights of other collaterals

Ascendant's right to inherit immovables donated to descendant

Reversion of property subject to encumbrances and succession debts

Nearest in degree among more remote relations

Degrees of relationship

Direct and collateral relationship

Rights of the state

Arts. 903 to 933 Repealed by Acts 1981, No. 919, 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.

Commencement of succession

Acquisition of ownership; seizin

Continuation of the possession of decedent

Transmission of rights of successor

Exercise of succession rights

Existence of successor

Same; unborn child

Declaration of unworthiness

Persons who may bring action

Reconciliation or forgiveness

Prescription

Effects of declaration of unworthiness

Devolution of succession rights of successor declared unworthy

Right of successor to accept or renounce

Minor successor deemed to accept

Death of decedent as prerequisite to acceptance or renunciation

Knowledge required of successor as prerequisite to acceptance or renunciation

Nullity of premature acceptance or renunciation

Probate or annulment of testament after acceptance or renunciation of succession

Legacy subject to a suspensive condition

Retroactive effects of acceptance and renunciation

Reserved]

Claims of successor who is a creditor of the estate

Formal or informal acceptance

Informal acceptance; use or disposition of property

Informal acceptance; act of ownership

Donative renunciation deemed acceptance

Effect of acceptance

Presumption of acceptance

Requirement of formality

Accretion upon renunciation in intestate successions

Accretion upon renunciation in testate successions

Acceptance or renunciation of accretion

Acceptance of succession by creditor

Reserved]

Arts. 969-1074 [Blank]

Arts. 1075 to 1094 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.

Vacant succession, definition.

Intestate succession, definition.

Vacant succession; administration by administrators.

Arts. 1098, 1099 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.

Liability for unauthorized possession of vacant succession.

Arts. 1101, 1102 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.

Repealed by Acts 1980, No. 150, 3, eff. Jan. 1, 1981.

Arts. 1104 to 1112 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.

Arts. 1113 to 1132 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.

Arts. 1133 to 1137 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.

Arts. 1138 to 1145 Repealed by Acts 1980, No. 150, 3, eff. Jan. 1, 1981.

Arts. 1146, 1147 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.

Interest on succession funds; liability for private use.

Arts. 1149 to 1157 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.

Arts. 1158 to 1161 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.

Arts. 1162 to 1170 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.

Persons authorized to make sale.

Arts. 1172 to 1187 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.

Unpaid new creditors' action against paid creditors; prescription.

Arts. 1189, 1190 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.

Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.

Termination of curator's duties on appearance of heirs.

Arts. 1193 to 1209 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.

Arts. 1210 to 1219 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.

Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.

Arts. 1221 to 1223 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.

Arts. 1224 to 1226 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.

Collation, definition.

Collation by descendants

Reasons for collation.

Presumption in favor of collation.

Express exclusion of collation; extra portion.

Method of declaring dispensation from collation

Sufficiency of declaration.

Reduction of donations exceeding disposable portion; calculation of legitime.

Persons entitled to demand collation

Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 147, 3, eff. July 1, 1990.

Renouncing heir's right to donations not exceeding disposable portion.

Grandchildren; collation of donations made by grandparent after death of parent

Grandchildren; right to donations made by grandparent during life of parent

Grandchildren; collation of donations made by grandparent to parent.

Collation by great grandchildren and more remote descendants.

Collation; succession of donor.

Expenditures subject to collation

Expenditures not subject to collation.

Manual gifts.

Profits from contracts with ascendant.

Share of partnership with ascendant.

Advantages other than donation.

Wages for services to ascendant.

Immovables destroyed while in possession of donee.

Methods of making collations.

Collation in kind, definition.

Collation by taking less, definition.

Movables or immovables.

Collation of immovables.

Immovables collated in kind; reimbursement for improvements.

Immovables collated in kind; allowance for expenses of preservation.

Immovables collated in kind; removal by donee of works erected for his pleasure.

Kinds of expenses made on immovable property.

Deterioration and damage to immovable, liability of donee.

Destruction of immovable after election to collate in kind.

Partial destruction of immovable after election to collate in kind.

Destruction of immovable after election to collate by taking less.

Creditors' rights on immovable collated in kind.

Preservation of creditor's mortgage rights after partition.

Immovables in excess of disposable portion; collation in kind.

Immovables in excess of disposable portion; collation by taking less.

Collation in kind; retention of immovable until reimbursement of expenses.

Collation by taking less; valuation of immovable.

Voluntary alienation or negligent loss of immovables subject to collation.

Forced alienation of immovables subject to collation.

Sale by donee and subsequent destruction of immovable subject to collation.

Collation by taking less; coheirs' election of collation by sale or in kind.

Failure of coheirs to make timely election.

Payment of collation by sale of succession effects.

Payment of collation with property of succession.

Payment of collation by donee where succession effects insufficient.

Time and security for payment.

Rights of coheirs against defaulting heir; foreclosure of special mortgage.

Privilege of seizing coheirs on proceeds of mortgage sale.

Alienation of immovable by donee by onerous title; creation of real right in immovable by donee or operation of law

Purchaser's retention of immovable upon payment of collations.

Collation of movables.

Donation of movables as absolute transfer of rights.

Collation of money.

Collation of movables or money by taking less; payment in money.

Collation of movables or money by taking less; payment in succession effects.

Payment of collation by donee where succession effects insufficient.

Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, 1.

Extent and application of rules; venue of action.

Venue of action where property partly in different parishes.

Undivided ownership rights until partition.

Partition of a succession, definition.

Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, 1.

Definitive and provisional partitions, definitions.

Definitive and provisional partitions, distinguished.

Stipulations against partition.

Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, 1.

Perpetual prohibition against partition by donor.

Limited or conditional prohibition against partition by donor.

Testator's right to prohibit partition during minority of heirs.

Testamentary partition

Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, 1.

Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, 1.

Prescription where possession is separate.

Prescription where one heir possesses separately and others possess in common.

Partition between heirs and legatees.

Partition between owners in common.

Partition between possessors in common.

Nature of possession required.

Action maintainable by one or more co-owners.

Partition suits by tutors and curators.

Partition suits by emancipated minors.

Defense of suits by tutors, curators and emancipated minors.

Partition suits by curators of absent heirs.

Arts. 1316, 1317 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.

Partition by or against heir or successor of co-owner.

Retrocession repealed.

Ownership as basis for action of partition.

Separate possession of one co-owner, partition before prescription.

Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, 1.

Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, 1.

Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.

Inventory within one year of partition suit.

New appraisement.

Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.

Summary proceeding for action of partition.

Parties plaintiff and defendant.

Plaintiff's admission of defendant's heirship.

Collation in action of partition; time for deliberating.

Election to collate in kind.

Election to collate by taking less; failure to elect.

Appraisement of property to be collated.

Matters incidental to partition; procedure.

Judicial regulation of mode of partition.

Partition in kind; sale of movables to pay debts.

Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, 1.

Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, 1.

Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, 1.

Terms of sale of succession effects where all heirs are absent or minors.

Terms of sale of succession effects where heirs present demand sale for cash.

Partition sale; coheir's right to purchase hereditary portion.

Partition sale; purchase of minor's hereditary portion by tutor or curator.

Reference to recorder or notary for continuation of proceedings.

Amicable continuation of proceedings by heirs.

Notice to parties.

Continuances of proceedings.

Settlement of accounts due by heirs to succession.

Items included in accounts.

Deduction of donations not subject to collation.

Court order as to mode of collation exhibited to officer

Inclusion of property collated in kind.

Inclusion of value of property collated by taking less.

Formation of active mass.

Composition of active mass.

Deductions from active mass.

Deductions, definition.

Deductions allowed.

Deductions in absence of collation or when collation is in kind.

Deductions, when collation is by taking less.

Coheir's right to take succession effects in payment of collation.

Disagreement among heirs entitled to receive collation in property.

Division into lots according to number of heirs or roots.

Equality in formation of lots.

Equalization by money when one lot more valuable than others.

Formation of lots by experts.

Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.

Repealed by Acts 1962, No. 70.

Subdivision among coheirs of same root.

Coheirs' proportionate liability for succession debts.

Observance of formalities.

Provisional partitions; persons authorized to demand new partition

Arts. 1374 to 1377 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.

Errors of form, effect.

Delivery of property and title papers after partition.

Subsequent discovery of property, amendment of partition.

Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 989, 7, eff. January 1, 1991.

Partition compared to exchange.

Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, 1.

Reciprocal warranty against disturbance or eviction.

Exclusion of warranty.

Eviction through fault of coheir.

Proportionate liability of coheirs.

Amount of indemnity.

Liability of coheirs for portion of insolvent coheir.

Scope of warranty as to corporeal and incorporeal things.

Warranties always implied.

Warranty of solvency of debtor of rent charge, prescription.

Subsequent deterioration or destruction of property.

New debts or charges.

Tacit mortgage abolished.

Prescription of action of warranty.

Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, 1.

Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, 1.

Definitive partitions involving minors, interdicts, or absent persons

Provisional partitions involving minors, interdicts, or absent persons

Omission of succession effects not cause for rescission.

Rescission of transactions effecting partition.

Rescission inadmissible after compromise.

Rescission inadmissible against sale of succession rights.

Sale of succession rights to coheir at risk of vendor, rescission inadmissible.

Sale to coheir of immovable rights only, rescission for lesion.

Facts required to obtain rescission for lesion.

Termination of partition suit by defendant's tender.

Amount of tender.

Rescission for fraud or violence inadmissible after alienation.

Rescission inadmissible against partition regulated by father.

Rescission in favor of minor effective for all parties.

Prescription of action of rescission.

Prescription against minors after judicial partition.

Estate debts; administrative expenses

Liability of universal successors to creditors

Reserved]

Successors who are creditors, order of preference

Rights of pursuit of creditor

Regulation of payment of debts by testament or by agreement among successors

Estate debts, charged

Debts attributable to identifiable or encumbered property

Decedent's debts charged ratably

Administration expenses, how charged

Liability of successors for contribution or reimbursement

Classification of receipts and expenditures in absence of controlling dispositions

Reporting and deducting as authorized by tax law

Rights and obligations of usufructuary not superseded

Rights and obligations of income interest in trust not superseded

Methods of acquiring or disposing gratuitously

Donations inter vivos; definition

Donation mortis causa; definition

Persons capable of giving or receiving

Capacity to give, time for existence

Capacity to receive, time for existence

Capacity to receive conditional donation, time for existence

Unborn children, capacity to receive

Nullity of donation to person incapable of receiving

Minors; incapacity to make donations, exceptions

Capacity to donate, mental condition of donor

Nullity of donation procured by fraud or duress

Nullity of donation procured through undue influence

Nullity due to fraud, duress, or undue influence; severability of valid provision

Fiduciary appointment, termination

Proof of incapacity to donate

Proof of fraud, duress, or undue influence

Interpretation of revocation or modification

Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 147, 3, eff. July 1, 1990.

Arts. 1486, 1487 Repealed by Acts 1979, No. 607, 4

Repealed by Acts 1978, No. 362, 1.

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Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 147, 3, eff. July 1, 1990.

Forced heirs; representation of forced heirs

Children conceived through donation of gametes

Forced heir entitled to legitime; exception

Amount of forced portion and disposable portion

Calculation of the legitime

Permissible burdens on legitime

Disposable portion in absence of forced heirs

Nullity of donation inter vivos of entire patrimony

Usufruct to surviving spouse

Forced portion in cases of judicial divestment, disinherison, or renunciation of succession rights

Repealed by Acts 1997, No. 706, 1.

Inability to satisfy legitime by usufruct or income interest in trust only

Reduction of excessive donations

Reduction of donations, exclusive right of forced heirs

Calculation of disposable portion on mass of succession

Reserved]

Reduction of legacies before donations inter vivos, order of reduction

Reduction of donations inter vivos

Insolvency of a donee

Remunerative donations, extent of reduction

Onerous donation, extent of reduction

Retention of fruits and products of donation by donee until demand for reduction

Reduction in kind when property is owned by the donee or successors by gratuitous title; effects of alienation by donee

Usufruct of surviving spouse affecting legitime; security

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Impossible, illegal or immoral conditions.

Prohibited substitutions, definitions

Vulgar substitutions

Separate donations of usufruct and naked ownership

Onerous donation

Remunerative donations

Charges or conditions imposed by donor

Donation of future property; nullity

Donation conditional on will of donor; nullity

Donation conditional on payment of future or unexpressed debts and charges; nullity

Stipulation for right of return to donor

Right of return; effect

Form required for donations

Identification of donor, donee, and the thing donated required

Manual gift

Donation effective from time of acceptance

Acceptance in person or by mandatary

Acceptance during lifetime of donee

Acceptance by creditor prohibited

Unemancipated minor; persons authorized to accept

Thing acquired subject to existing charges

Form for donation of certain incorporeal movables

Effects of acceptance

Causes for revocation or dissolution

Revocation for ingratitude

Revocation for ingratitude; prescription, parties

Revocation for ingratitude, effect on alienations, leases, or encumbrances

Revocation for ingratitude, restoration

Reserved

Dissolution for nonfulfillment of suspensive condition or for occurrence of resolutory condition

Nonfulfillment of conditions or nonperformance of charges that donee can perform or prevent

Dissolution for non-execution of other condition; prescription

Dissolution for non-execution of condition

Revocation or dissolution, donee's liability for fruits

Donee unable to return thing in same condition

Testaments; form

Testaments with others or by others prohibited

Testamentary dispositions committed to the choice of a third person

Formalities

Forms of testaments

Olographic testament

Notarial testament

Requirements of form

Notarial testament; testator literate and sighted but physically unable to sign

Notarial testament; testator unable to read

Notarial testament in braille form

Deaf or deaf and blind notarial testament; form; witnesses

Persons incompetent to be witnesses

Effect of witness or notary as legatee

Persons prohibited from witnessing; effect

Certain designations not legacies

Kinds of testamentary dispositions

Universal legacy

General legacy

Particular legacy

Joint or separate legacy

Lapse of legacies

Testamentary accretion

Accretion of particular and general legacies

Accretion among joint legatees

Exception to rule of testamentary accretion

Reserved]

Accretion to universal legatee

Accretion to intestate successors

Loss, extinction, or destruction of property given

Right of legatees to fruits and products

Payment of legacies, preference of payment

Particular legacies; preference of payment

Preference of payment among particular legacies

Discharge of an unsatisfied particular legacy

Reserved]

Discharge of legacies, limitation of liability

Probate of testament

Testator's right of revocation

Revocation of entire testament by testator

Revocation of a legacy or other testamentary provision

Revocation of juridical act prior to testator's death

Other modifications

Grounds for revocation of testamentary dispositions

Intent of testator controls

Preference for interpretation that gives effect

Mistake in identification of object bequeathed

Interpretation as to after-acquired property

Contradictory provisions

Legacy to creditor

Disinherison of forced heirs

Formalities for disinherison

Disinherison, express and for just cause

Limitation of causes for disinherison

Children; causes for disinherison by parents

Grandparents; causes for disinherison of grandchildren

Timing of action; no defense

Mention of cause for disinherison; burden of proof; reconciliation

Reconciliation

Defenses to disinherison

Right of parents and ascendants to partition property among descendants

Method of making partition

Partition by act inter vivos, formalities.

Testamentary partitions, formalities.

Property not included in partition.

Necessity for partition to include all descendants.

Limitation in relation to disposable portion.

Action to rescind partition, payment of costs.

Tender by defendant in action of rescission.

Donation of extra portion not affected by rescission.

Donations in contemplation of marriage by third persons; in general

Form

Condition

Beneficiaries

Beneficiaries

Limited irrevocability

Division following substitution of common descendants

Caducity; causes and effects

Acceptance or renunciation of succession

Universal succession; liability for estate debts

Donations between future or present spouses; in general

Applicability of rules on donations in contemplation of marriage by third person

Objects and beneficiaries

Form

Right of return not presumed

Donation of property to be left at death; caducity

Donations of property to be left at death made during marriage; revocability

Disguised donations and donations to persons interposed

Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 147, 3, eff. July 1, 1990.

Repealed by Acts 1918, No. 238, 1.

Repealed by Acts 2004, No. 619, §1, eff. Sept. 1, 2005.

Repealed by Acts 2004, No. 619, §1, eff. Sept. 1, 2005.

Obligations; definition

Sources of obligations

General effects

Good faith

Moral duties that may give rise to a natural obligation

Effects of a natural obligation

Examples of circumstances giving rise to a natural obligation

Definition

Effects of real obligation

Heritable obligation

Strictly personal obligation

Suspensive and resolutory condition

Expressed and implied conditions

Unlawful or impossible condition

Condition that depends on the whim or the will of the obligor

Obligee's right pending condition

Fault of a party

Time for fulfillment of condition that an event shall occur

Time for fulfillment of condition that an event shall not occur

Effects retroactive

Contract for continuous or periodic performance

Express or implied term

Term for performance

Term presumed to benefit the obligor

Renunciation of a term

Performance before end of term

If the obligor is insolvent

Impairment or failure of security

Term for performance not fixed

Performance on term

Several, joint, and solidary obligations

Several obligations; effects

Joint obligations for obligors or obligees

Divisible and indivisible joint obligation

Solidary obligations for obligees

Extinction of obligation by performance

Remission by one obligee

Interruption of prescription

Solidary obligation for obligors

Solidary obligor may not request division; action against one obligor after action against another

Solidarity not presumed

Solidary obligation arising from different sources

Obligation subject to condition or term

Interruption of prescription

Solidary liability for damages

Defenses that solidary obligor may raise

Renunciation of solidarity

Remission of debt to or transaction or compromise with one obligor

Liability of solidary obligors between themselves

Enforcement of contribution

Insolvency of a solidary obligor

Conjunctive obligation

Alternative obligation

Choice belongs to the obligor

Delay in exercising choice

Obligor may not choose part of one item

Impossibility or unlawfulness of one item of performance

Impossibility or unlawfulness of all items of performance

Obligor's liability for damages

Divisible and indivisible obligation

Effect of divisible obligation between single obligor and obligee

Effects of divisible obligation among successors

Effects of indivisible obligations between more than one obligor or obligee

Effect of indivisible obligation among successors

Solidarity is not indivisibility

Assumption by agreement between obligor and third person

Third person bound for amount assumed

Assumption by agreement between obligee and third person

Defenses

Definition

Effects

Conventional subrogation by the obligee

Conventional subrogation by the obligor

Subrogation by operation of law

Effects of legal subrogation

Party must prove obligation

Written form required by law

Authentic act

Act that fails to be authentic

Authentic act constitutes full proof between parties and heirs

Act under private signature duly acknowledged

Act under private signature

Party must acknowledge or deny signature

Transfer of immovable property

Copy of authentic act

Copy of recorded writing

Confirmation

Ratification

Effects of confirmation and ratification

Confirmation of donation

Contract not in excess of five hundred dollars

Debt of a third person and debt extinguished by prescription

Testimonial or other evidence not admitted to disprove a writing

Proof of simulation

Art. 1850.

Art. 1851.

Art. 1852.

Judicial confession

Extinction by performance

Performance by a third person

Valid transfer of object of performance

Performance rendered to the obligee

Lack of capacity of obligee

Performance in violation of seizure

Quality of thing to be given

Partial performance

Place of performance

Expenses

Imputation by obligor

Imputation to debt not yet due

Payment imputed to interest

Imputation by obligee

Imputation not made by the parties

Offer to perform and deposit by obligor

Notice as tender

Deposit of things by obligor

Sale of a thing and deposit of proceeds

Obligor not liable when failure caused by fortuitous event

Fortuitous event that would have destroyed object in hands of obligee

Fortuitous event

Contract dissolved when performance becomes impossible

Fortuitous event that has made performance impossible in part

Fortuitous event after obligor performed in part

Extinguishment of existing obligation

Novation not presumed

Objective novation

Subjective novation

No effect when obligation is invalid

Security for extinguished obligation

Novation of solidary obligation

Delegation of performance

Discharge of any prior obligor does not affect security

Express or tacit remission

Presumption of remission

Remission effective when communication is received by the obligor

Release of real security

Remission granted to sureties

Compensation extinguishes obligations

Obligation not subject to compensation

Obligations not to be performed at the same place

Rules of imputation of payment

Compensation extinguishes obligation of surety

Compensation between obligee and solidary obligor

Rights acquired by third parties

Assignment by obligee

Compensation by agreement

Compensation by judicial declaration

Union of qualities of obligee and obligor

Obligation of the surety

Solidary obligations

Definition of contract

Unilateral contracts

Bilateral or synallagmatic contracts

Onerous contracts

Gratuitous contracts

Commutative contracts

Aleatory contracts

Principal and accessory contracts

Nominate and innominate contracts

Rules applicable to all contracts

Rules applicable to nominate contracts

Rules applicable to all kinds of obligations

General statement of capacity

Right to plead rescission

Right to require confirmation or rescission of the contract

Rescission of contract for incapacity

Fully emancipated minor

Incapacity of unemancipated minor; exceptions

Mere representation of majority; reliance

Noninterdicted person deprived of reason; protection of innocent contracting party by onerous title

Attack on noninterdicted decedent's contracts

Consent

Irrevocable offer

Expiration of irrevocable offer for lack of acceptance

Revocable offer

Expiration of revocable offer

Expiration of offer by death or incapacity of either party

Option contracts

Time when acceptance of an irrevocable offer is effective

Time when acceptance of a revocable offer is effective

Reasonableness of manner and medium of acceptance

Time when revocation is effective

Reception of revocation, rejection, or acceptance

Acceptance by performance

Acceptance only by completed performance

Notice of commencement of performance

Acceptance by silence

Acceptance not in accordance with offer

Offer of reward made to the public

Revocation of an offer of reward made to the public

Performance by several persons

Form contemplated by parties

Vitiated consent

Error vitiates consent

Error that concerns cause

Other party willing to perform

Rescission; liability for damages

Fraud may result from misrepresentation or from silence

Confidence between the parties

Error induced by fraud

Fraud committed by a third person

Proof

Damages

Nature

Duress directed against third persons

Duress by third person

Threat of exercising a right

Contract with party in good faith

Damages

Lesion

No obligation without cause

Cause defined; detrimental reliance

Unlawful cause

Cause not expressed

Untrue expression of cause

Freedom of parties

Possible or impossible object

Object determined as to kind

Determination by third person

Output or requirements

Future things

Obligation or performance by a third person

Stipulation for a third party

Revocation

Revocation or refusal

Rights of beneficiary and stipulator

Defenses of the promisor

Law for the parties; performance in good faith

Rights and obligations will pass to successors

Effects for third parties

Right of the obligee

Right to restrain obligor

Judgment may stand for act

Damages for delay

Obligor put in default by arrival of term

Manners of putting in default

Risk devolves upon the obligor

Reciprocal obligations

Obligor liable for failure to perform

Measure of damages

Obligor in good faith

Obligor in bad faith

Damages for nonpecuniary loss

Assessment of damages left to the court

Damages for delay measured by interest; no need of proof; attorney fees

Interest on interest

Reasonable efforts to mitigate damages

Obligee in bad faith

Clause that excludes or limits liability

Secondary obligation

Nullity of the principal obligation

Stipulated damages or performance

Failure to perform justified

Obligee not bound to prove damage

Obligor put in default

Benefit from partial performance

Stipulated damages may not be modified

Obligee's right to dissolution

Importance of failure to perform

Dissolution after notice to perform

Dissolution without notice to perform

Express dissolution clause

Effects of dissolution

Contracts for continuous or periodic performance

Contracts made by more than two parties

Rights of third party in good faith

Refusal to perform

Security for performance

Contract terminated by a party's initiative

Definition; simulation and counterletter

Absolute simulation

Relative simulation

Effects as to third persons

Nullity of contracts

Absolute nullity of contracts

Relative nullity of contracts

Prescription of action

Effects

Nullity of a provision

Rights of third party in good faith

Act of the obligor that causes or increases his insolvency

Insolvency

Onerous contract made by the obligor

Gratuitous contract made by the obligor

Contract made in course of business

Action must be brought within one year

Obligee must join obligor and third persons

Assets transferred must be returned

Insolvency by failure to exercise right

Determination of the intent of the parties

No further interpretation when intent is clear

Meaning of words

Words susceptible of different meanings

Provision susceptible of different meanings

Provisions interpreted in light of each other

Contract worded in general terms

Situation to which the contract applies

Nature of contract, equity, usages, conduct of the parties, and other contracts between same parties

No provision of the parties for a particular situation

Equity and usage

Standard-form contracts

Contract interpreted in favor of obligor

Arts. 2058 to 2291 Repealed by Acts 1984, No. 331, 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1985.

Management of affairs; definition

Application of rules governing mandate

Duties of the manager; notice to the owner

Duties of the manager; liability for loss

Capacity

Obligations of the owner

Enrichment without cause; compensation

Obligation to restore

Obligation that does not exist

Obligation under suspensive condition

Payment of the debt of another person

Liability of the person receiving payment

Restoration of a thing or its value

Liability when the thing is alienated

Repealed by Acts 1995, No. 1041, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.

Repealed by Acts 1995, No. 1041, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.

Repealed by Acts 1995, No. 1041, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.

Repealed by Acts 1995, No. 1041, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.

Repealed by Acts 1995, No. 1041, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.

Repealed by Acts 1995, No. 1041, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.

Repealed by Acts 1995, No. 1041, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.

Repealed by Acts 1995, No. 1041, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.

Repealed by Acts 1979, No. 180, 3.

Liability for acts causing damages

Survival action

Wrongful death action

Additional damages; child pornography

Additional damages; intoxicated defendant

Wrongful death and survival action; exception

Liability for damages caused by injury to another

Liability for damages caused by criminal sexual activity occurring during childhood

Liability for damages caused by domestic abuse

Liability for damages caused by acts of terror

Article
2315.10

Liability for death caused by hazing; additional damages

Article
2315.11

Liability for damages caused by sexual assault

Negligence, imprudence or want of skill.

Acts of others and of things in custody.

Damage caused by ruin, vice, or defect in things

Acts of a minor

Acts of interdicts

Acts of servants, students or apprentices

Damage caused by animals

Damage caused by ruin of building

Users of blood or tissue; a medical service

Comparative fault

Liability as solidary or joint and divisible obligation

Damages; discretion of judge or jury

Reduction of recovery

Matrimonial regime.

Kinds of matrimonial regimes.

Legal regime.

Contractual regime; matrimonial agreement.

Exclusion or modification of matrimonial regime.

Limits of contractual freedom.

Form of matrimonial agreement.

Effect toward third persons.

Minors.

Persons; scope of application of the legal regime.

Classification of property

Ownership of community property

Disposition of undivided interest.

Community property.

Fruits and revenues of separate property

Presumption of community.

Separate property.

Acquisition of undivided interests; separate and community property

Declaration of acquisition of separate property

Donation by spouse of interest in community.

Transfer of separate property to the community.

Offenses and quasi-offenses; damages as community or separate property.

Satisfaction of obligation during community.

Management of community property.

Alienation of community property; concurrence of other spouse.

Renunciation of right to concur.

Donation of community property; concurrence of other spouse.

Alienation of movable assets of business

Alienation of registered movables.

Management and disposition of partnership and limited liability company interest

Unauthorized alienation of community property.

Liability for fraud or bad faith.

Judicial authorization to act without the consent of the other spouse

Judicial authorization to manage the community

Causes of termination

Satisfaction of obligation after termination of regime

Claims for reimbursement between spouses

Source of reimbursement

Obligations; community or separate.

Community obligation.

Obligations incurred during marriage; presumption.

Alimentary obligation.

Obligation incurred in an action for divorce

Separate obligation

Satisfaction of separate obligation with community property or former community property.

Repealed by Acts 2009, No. 204, §3.

Satisfaction of community obligation with separate property

Use of community property or former community property for the benefit of separate property

Use of separate property for the benefit of community property

Use of separate property for the benefit of separate property

Component parts of separate property

Satisfaction of separate obligation with separate property

Increase of the value of separate property.

Accounting between spouses; prescription.

Application of co-ownership provisions

Ownership interest

Duty to preserve; standard of care

Alienation, encumbrance, or lease prohibited

Alienation of registered movables

Alienation, encumbrance, or lease of movable assets of former community enterprise

Court authorization to act alone

Right to partition; no exclusion by agreement; judicial partition

Separation of property regime.

Management of property.

Necessaries.

Expenses of the marriage.

Judgment of separation of property

Effect of judgment

Rights of creditors.

Arts. 2377 to 2431 Repealed by Acts 1978, No. 627, 6; Acts 1979, No. 709, 1

Right to marital portion.

Incident of marriage; charge on the succession.

Quantum

Deduction of legacy.

Nonheritable right; prescription.

Periodic allowance.

Rules of other titles

Definition

Sale of immovable, method of making

Reserved]

Recordation of sale of immovable to affect third parties

Purchase of a thing already owned

Repealed by Acts 2012, No. 277, §2.

Reserved]

Reserved]

Sale of litigious rights, prohibitions

Things that may be sold

Reserved]

Sale of future things

Sale of a hope

Sale of the thing of another

Sale of thing pending litigation of ownership

Reserved]

Reserved]

Transfer of ownership

Transfer of ownership; things not individualized

Sale by weight, tale or measure; lump sales

Reserved]

Sale on view or trial

Inclusion of accessories

Reserved]

Expenses

Price, essential elements

Price left to determination by third person

No price fixed by the parties

Transfer of risk

Reserved]

Reserved]

Reserved]

Reserved]

Reserved]

Reserved]

Construction of ambiguities respecting obligations of seller

Seller's obligations of delivery and warranty.

Reserved]

Methods of making delivery

Reserved]

Reserved]

Retention of possession by seller, presumption of simulation

Incorporeals, method of making delivery

Things not in possession of seller

Costs of delivery and of removal

Place of delivery

Buyer's rights upon default, damages

Reserved]

Delivery excused until payment of price and for insolvency

Reserved]

Condition of thing at time of delivery

Reserved]

Immovables, extent of delivery

Sale of immovables at a price per measure

Reserved]

Sale of immovable for lump price

Sale of a certain and limited body or of a distinct object for a lump price

Reserved]

Restitution of price and expenses in case of rescission

Prescription of actions for supplement or diminution of price or for dissolution

Reserved]

Eviction, definition, scope of warranty

Reserved]

Transfer of rights to a thing

Modification or exclusion of warranty, seller's liability for personal acts, restitution of price in case of eviction

Reserved]

Reserved]

Rights of buyer against seller in case of eviction

Restitution of full price despite deterioration, deduction of damage when benefit to buyer

Reserved]

Reimbursement to buyer for useful improvements, liability of seller in bad faith

Reserved]

Partial eviction, rights of buyer

Warranty against eviction from proceeds

Scope of warranty in sale of succession rights

Reserved]

Reserved]

Reserved]

Call in warranty, failure of buyer to call seller in warranty, suit to quiet possession

Reserved]

Reserved]

Warranty against redhibitory defects

Defects that are made known to the buyer or that are apparent

Notice of existence of defect

Reserved]

Thing fit for ordinary use

Reserved]

Reserved]

Reserved]

Reserved]

Thing not of the kind specified in the contract

Defect must exist before delivery

Liability of seller who knew not of the defect

Return of the thing; destruction of the thing

Reserved]

Prescription

Reserved]

Reserved]

Judicial sales

Multiple sellers, multiple buyers, successors

Reserved]

Redhibitory vice of one of several matched things sold together

Reduction of the price

Reserved]

Reserved]

Reserved]

Liability of seller who knows of the defect; presumption of knowledge

Reserved]

Reserved]

Exclusion or limitation of warranty; subrogation

Obligations of the buyer

Time and place of payment of price

Reserved]

Reserved]

Interest on price

Reserved]

Liability of the buyer who fails to take delivery

Reserved]

Eviction and threat of eviction as grounds for suspension of payment

Reserved]

Reserved]

Payment of the price before disturbance of possession

Dissolution of sale for nonpayment of price

Dissolution of sale of immovables for nonpayment of price; extension of time for payment

Payment of price after expiration of term but prior to default

Dissolution of sale of movables

Reserved]

Reserved]

Right of redemption, definition

Limitation on duration

Redemption, presumption of security

Effect of failure to exercise right within time stipulated

Application of time limit against all persons including minors

Redemption against second purchaser

Reserved]

Buyer's benefit of discussion against creditors of the seller

Ownership of fruits and products pending redemption

Reserved]

Ownership of improvements and augmentations pending redemption

Liability for deterioration at the time of redemption

Reserved]

Reserved]

Reserved]

Reserved]

Reserved]

Multiple successors, applicability of rules governing lesion

Reserved]

Reserved]

Reimbursement to buyer on redemption

Encumbrances created by buyer

Rescission for lesion beyond moiety

Time of valuation for determination of lesion

Option of buyer to supplement price

Lesion, return of fruits by buyer and payment of interest by seller

Reserved]

Lesion, action against vendee who has resold the immovable

Peremption of action for lesion

Lesion, action against vendee who has granted a right on the immovable

Condition in which property is returned to seller; reimbursement of buyer for improvements

Reserved]

Buyer's right of retention pending reimbursement

Divisibility of action in lesion among joint sellers and successors, joinder

Additional terms in acceptance of offer to sell a movable

Contract by conduct of the parties

Obligation to deliver conforming things

Buyer's right of inspection

Rejection of nonconforming things by the buyer

Buyer's acceptance of nonconforming things

Buyer may accept part of things delivered

Merchant buyer's duty upon rejection of things

Purchase of substitute things by the buyer

Cure of nonconformity

Resale by the seller

Deposit of the things by seller

Things in transit, ownership

Stoppage in transit

Judicial dissolution

Things in transit, risk of loss

Payment against documents

Reserved]

Reserved]

Option to buy or sell

Acceptance, when effective; option turns into contract to sell; rejection

Warranty of assignor

Bilateral promise of sale; contract to sell

Deposit, earnest money

Right of first refusal

Terms of offered sale

Right of first refusal, time for acceptance

Time limitation for option and right of first refusal

Effect against third persons

Indivisibility of right

Reserved]

Reserved]

Reserved]

Reserved]

Reserved]

Reserved]

Reserved]

Reserved]

Reserved]

Reserved]

Reserved]

Assignability of rights

Assignment effective from the time of knowledge or notice

Performance by debtor before knowledge of assignment

Accessories included in assignment of right

Warranty of existence of debt, solvency of debtor

Reserved]

Scope of warranty of debtor's solvency

Assignor's knowledge of the debtor's insolvency; effects

Warranty in assignment of succession rights

Reserved]

Sale of litigious rights

Assignability prohibited by contract; exceptions

Documents evidencing the right

Giving in payment, definition

Delivery essential to a giving in payment

Giving in partial payment

Reserved]

Application of general rules of sale

Exchange, definition

Rights and obligations of the parties

Rights of party evicted

Rescission for lesion in contracts of exchange

Application of the rules of sale

[Reserved.]

[Reserved.]

[Reserved.]

Contract of lease defined

Relation with other titles

Contract to lease

Types of leases

Mineral lease

The thing

Ownership of the thing

The rent

Agreement as to the rent

Crop rent

Term

Limits of contractual freedom in fixing the term

Duration supplied by law; legal term

Form

The lessor's principal obligations

The lessee's principal obligations

Obligations to deliver the thing at the agreed time and in good condition

Discrepancy between agreed and delivered quantity

Misuse of the thing

Damage caused by fault

Obligation to inform lessor

Payment of taxes and other charges

Alterations by the lessor prohibited

Lessor's obligation for repairs

Lessee's obligation to make repairs

Lessor's right to make repairs

Lessee's right to make repairs

Attachments, additions, or other improvements to leased thing

Warranty against vices or defects

Warranty for unknown vices or defects

Persons protected by warranty

Waiver of warranty for vices or defects

Warranty of peaceful possession

Call in warranty

Disturbance by third persons without claim of right

When and where rent is due

Nonpayment of rent

Abatement of rent for unforeseen loss of crops

Loss of crop rent

Lessor's privilege

Lessor's privilege over sublessee's movables

Lessor's right to seize movables of third persons

Enforcement of the lessor's privilege

Transfer of thing does not terminate lease

Transfer of immovable subject to unrecorded lease

Lessee's right to sublease, assign, or encumber

Expropriation; loss or destruction

Partial destruction, loss, expropriation, or other substantial impairment of use

Termination of lease granted by a usufructuary

Death of lessor or lessee

Leases with reservation of right to terminate

Dissolution for other causes

Termination of lease with a fixed term

Reconduction

Term of reconducted agricultural lease

Term of reconducted nonagricultural lease

Continuity of the reconducted lease

Extension

Amendment

Termination of lease with an indeterminate term

Notice of termination; timing

Notice of termination; form

Kinds of lease of services or labor.

Limited duration of contract.

Contract of servant terminable at will of parties.

Contract of farm or factory laborer, restrictions on termination.

Liability for dismissal of laborer without cause.

Liability of laborer leaving employment without cause.

Obligations of carriers and watermen

Liability for things delivered for shipment.

Birth of child during sea voyage.

Liability for loss or damage.

Master's and crew's privilege on vessel for payment of wages.

Building by plot and work by job, definitions.

Agreement to furnish work or materials or both.

Destruction of work before delivery, liability of contractor furnishing materials.

Destruction of work before delivery, liability of contractor furnishing work only.

Destruction of work before delivery, contractor's right to payment of salary.

Delivery of work in separate parts.

Liability of contractor for damages due to badness of workmanship.

Changes or extensions of original plans, effect.

Substantial and necessary alterations.

Cancellation of contract by owner.

Termination of contract by death of workman.

Payment to heirs of contractor for work or materials completed.

Contractor's liability for acts of employees.

Contractor's liability for non-compliance with contract.

Workmen employed by contractor, rights against owner.

Masons, carpenters and other artificers as contractors.

Repealed

Repealed

Repealed

Repealed

Repealed

Privilege of workmen on ships and boats.

Annuity contract; definition

Applicability of the rules governing obligations

Recipient of payments

Annuity for life or time period

Termination of annuity; absence of a designated term

Assignable and heritable rights and obligations

Annuity in favor of successive recipients

Annuity contract in favor of several recipients of payments

Existence of recipient

Annuity charge

Annuity charge; recordation

Applicable law

Annuity charge for life or time period

Enforcement of the annuity charge

Partnership; definition.

Applicability of rules of conventional obligations.

Participation of partners.

Participation in one category only.

Name of the partnership.

Ownership of immovable property; retroactivity of partnership's existence; acquisition of immovable property prior to partnership's existence

Decisions affecting the partnership.

Obligation of a partner to contribute.

Fiduciary duty; activities prejudicial to the partnership.

Other rights not prejudiced.

Partner as creditor of the partnership.

The sharing of a partner's interest with a third person.

The right of a partner to obtain information.

Partner as mandatary of the partnership

Effect of loss stipulation on third persons.

Contract by partner in his own name; effect on the partnership.

Partnership debts; liability.

Causes of cessation of membership

Seizure of the interest of a partner.

Expulsion of a partner for just cause.

Partnership constituted for term; withdrawal.

Partnership without term; withdrawal.

Rights of a partner after withdrawal.

Payment of interest of partner.

Judicial determination of amount.

Termination of a partnership; causes

Continuation of a partnership.

Continuation for liquidation; sole proprietorship.

Change in number or identity of partners.

Effects of termination; authority of partners.

Termination of the partnership; rights of third parties.

Creditors of the partnership; preference.

Division of the partnership assets.

Liquidation of the partnership.

Final liquidation.

Provisions applicable to partnerships in commendam.

Partnership in commendam; definition.

Name; designation as partnership in commendam.

Name of partner in commendam; use

Partner in commendam; liability; agreed contribution.

Contract form; registry.

Restrictions on the right of a partner in commendam to receive contributions.

Restrictions on the partner in commendam with regard to management or administration of the partnership.

Liability of the partner in commendam to third parties

Repealed by Acts 1995, No. 847, 5, eff. June 27, 1995.

Repealed by Acts 1995, No. 847, 5, eff. June 27, 1995.

Repealed by Acts 1995, No. 847, 5, eff. June 27, 1995.

Repealed by Acts 1995, No. 847, 5, eff. June 27, 1995.

Loan for use; definition

Applicability of the rules governing obligations

Things that may be lent

Preservation and limited use

Ordinary wear and tear; damage caused by the failure to keep, preserve, or use as a prudent administrator

Use for longer time or in other manner

Heritability of contract obligations.Loss caused by fortuitous event

Valuation of the thing

Reimbursement for expenses

Liability of joint borrowers

Retaking before or after conclusion of use or expiration of time

Lender's liability for damage caused by defects in the thing

Liberative prescription

Loan for consumption; definition

Ownership and risk of loss of the thing lent

Loan of nonfungible things

Loan of money or commodities

Lender's liability for damage caused by defects in the thing

Inability to demand performance until expiration of term

Substance and place of performance

Payment of value when restitution is impossible

Payment of interest in case of default

Payment of interest presumed in release of principal

Deposit, definition

Kinds of deposit.

Nature of the contract

Formation of the contract; delivery

Diligence and prudence required

Use of the thing deposited

Use of consumable

Return of the thing deposited

Delivery of value received

Delivery of civil and natural fruits

Proof of ownership of the thing deposited not required; a stolen thing

Place and expense of return

Time of return

Retention of the deposit

Reimbursement of the depositary

Obligation of innkeeper to accept the deposit

Innkeeper as compensated depositary

Availability of a safe

Damaged or stolen things

Limitation of innkeeper's liability

Conventional sequestration; definition

Applicable law

Termination of conventional sequestration by the depositary

Judicial sequestration

Applicable law

Judicial depositary

Repealed

Repealed

Repealed

Representation

The authority of the representative

Procuration defined; person to whom addressed

Applicability of the rules of mandate

Mandate defined

Applicability of the rules governing obligations

Interest served

Onerous or gratuitous contract

Form

General authority

Incidental, necessary, or professional acts

Authority to alienate, acquire, encumber, or lease

Express authority required

Contracting with one's self

Person of limited capacity

Mandatary of both parties

Mandatary's duty of performance; standard of care

Gratuitous mandate; liability of a mandatary

Obligation to provide information

Obligation to deliver; right of retention

Interest on money used by mandatary

Fulfillment of the mandate by the mandatary

Mandatary's liability for acts of the substitute

Liability for acts beyond authority; ratification

Liability of multiple mandataries

Performance of obligations contracted by the mandatary

Advantageous performance despite divergence from authority

Reimbursement of expenses and remuneration

Compensation for loss sustained by the mandatary

Interest on sums expended by the mandatary

Liability of several principals

Disclosed mandate and principal

Undisclosed mandate

Disclosed mandate; undisclosed principal

Liability when authority is exceeded

Obligations of the principal to third persons

Putative mandatary

Disclosed mandate or principal; third person bound

Undisclosed mandate or principal; obligations of third person

Termination of the mandate and of the mandatary's authority

Termination by principal

Incapacity of the principal

Reliance on public records

Rights of third persons without notice of revocation

Termination by the mandatary

Acts of the mandatary after principal's death

Contracts made after termination of the mandate or the mandatary's authority

Obligation to account

Blank

Blank

Definition of suretyship

Obligations for which suretyship may be established

Surety ostensibly bound as a principal with another; effect of knowledge of the creditor

Formal requirements of suretyship

Suretyship requires no formal acceptance

Rules may be varied

Kinds of suretyship

Commercial suretyship

Legal suretyship

Ordinary suretyship; interpretation

Liability of sureties to creditor; division and discussion abolished

Defenses available to surety

Rights of the surety

Surety's right of subrogation

Surety's right of reimbursement for payment of obligation

Surety's right of reimbursement for payment of obligation not owed

Payment by debtor without notice of payment by surety

Limitation on right of surety to recover what he paid creditor

Surety's right to require security

Failure to provide security

Liability among co-sureties

Right of contribution among co-sureties

Limitation upon right of contribution

Extinction of the suretyship

Extinction of principal obligation

Prescription of the surety's obligation, right of reimbursement, and contribution

Termination of suretyship

Effect of modifications of principal obligation

Commercial suretyship rules apply to legal suretyship

Supplementary nature of this Chapter

Qualifications of legal surety; evidenced by affidavit; lack thereof not a defense

Legal suretyship to conform to law

Permissible variations

Pledge of funds in lieu of suretyship

Necessity for judgment against legal surety

Right to demand new security

Compromise; definition

Formal requirements; effects

Capacity and form

Lawful object

Relative effect

Scope of the act

Reserved

After-acquired rights

Tender and acceptance of less than the amount of the claim

Preclusive effect of compromise

Effect on novation

Rescission

Compromise suspends prescription

Repealed

Repealed

Repealed

Repealed

Repealed

Repealed

Repealed

Repealed

Repealed

Repealed

Repealed

Repealed

Repealed

Repealed.

Repealed

Submission to arbitrate.

Writing necessary.

Capacity of parties; authority of mandataries, tutors and curators.

Scope of submission.

Arbitration of damages incurred by public offense.

Power of arbitrators.

Duration of power of arbitrators; prescription

Penal clauses in submission.

Capacity of arbitrators.

Repealed by Acts 1979, No. 709, 2.

Arbitrators and amicable compounders.

Powers of arbitrators and amicable compounders.

Oath of arbitrators.

Presentation and proof of claims by parties.

Time, place and notice of hearing.

Attendance of parties and witnesses.

Attendance and swearing in of witnesses.

Disagreement among arbitrators; umpire.

Nomination of umpire.

Appointment of umpire.

Oath of umpire.

Time for decision of arbitrators.

Arbitrators acting in excess of power, effect.

Scope of arbitrators' authority.

Award null after time limit.

Extension of time for making award.

Award made prior to time specified for examination.

Participation in proceedings; signature of award.

Amount of award.

Interest and costs

Approval of award by judge.

Appeal from award; prepayment and repayment of penalty.

Retraction or change of award prohibited.

Termination of arbitration.

Liability of an obligor for his obligations

Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 281, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.

Ratable treatment of creditors

Limitations upon recourse

Security defined

Personal or real security

Kinds of security

Law governing security interest

Nullity of agreement of forfeiture

Pledge defined

Property susceptible of pledge

Pledge of property susceptible of encumbrance by security interest

Accessory nature of pledge

Preference afforded by pledge

Obligations for which pledge may be given

Pledge securing obligation that is not for the payment of money

Pledge securing an obligation of another person

Formal requirements of contract of pledge

Acceptance

Power to pledge

Delivery and possession of thing pledged

Delivery of incorporeal rights

Things subject to pawn

Incorporeal movables

Claims against other persons

Privilege and preference of pledge creditor

Enforcement of pledge of a movable

Acts of pledge in favor of banks

Pledge of obligation of a third person

Performance by obligor of a pledged obligation

Delivery to creditor or to third person

Partial payment of debt secured by pledge of several things

Right of retention until payment of debt

Rights of pledgee on default of debtor; procedure

Ownership of thing pledged

Pledgee's liability for loss or decay of thing pledged; reimbursement of expenses of preservation

Ownership of fruits of thing pledged

Imputation of interest earned by credit pledged

Pledgee's right to enforce payment of credit pledged; imputation of proceeds

Indivisibility of pawn as to heirs of debtor and creditor

Surplus or deficiency after sale

Debtor taking pledge without creditor's consent

Rights of creditor deceived as to pledge

Acquisitive prescription of pledge impossible

Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 281, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.

Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 281, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.

Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 281, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.

Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 281, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.

Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 281, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.

Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 281, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.

Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 281, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.

Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 281, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.

Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 281, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.

Privileges established only by law, stricti juris.

Privilege, definition.

Basis of preferences among privileges.

Concurrent privileges.

Property affected by privileges.

General or special privileges on movables.

General privileges on all movables, enumeration and ranking.

Funeral charges, definition.

Reduction of funeral charges of insolvent decedent.

Limitation in event of reduction.

Law charges, definition.

Costs which enjoy privilege.

Costs for the general benefit of creditors.

Costs not taxed in suit.

Last sickness, definition.

Chronic sickness.

Maximum period of privileged expenses.

List of expenses privileged.

Amount due for expenses, fixed by contract or by judge.

Last sickness of debtor's children.

Servants, definition.

Prescription of action; extent of privilege.

Wages recoverable but not privileged.

Supplies furnished by retail dealers.

Prescription of action; extent of privilege.

Wholesale dealers.

Innkeepers and masters of boarding houses.

Teachers and preceptors.

Extent of privilege for supplies.

Clerks and secretaries, extent and rank of privilege for salaries.

Repealed by Acts 1979, No. 709, 2.

Special privileges on movables.

List of special privileges on particular movables.

Repealed by Acts 2004, No. 821, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2005.

Method of enforcement of lessor's privilege

Privilege of pledgee.

Enforcement of pledge

Privilege of depositor on thing deposited.

Depositor's privilege on price in case of sale.

Preservation of property of another.

Rights of pledge and retention against owner.

Right of preference against creditors.

Vendor's privilege on movables; agricultural products of the United States.

Loss of privilege by sale with other property of purchaser.

Vendor's claim for restitution.

Restitution dependent on identification.

Restitution of things easily recognized.

Innkeepers, definition.

Innkeepers' rights on property of guests.

Property covered by innkeepers' privilege.

Travelers, definition.

Sale or donation of unclaimed and unredeemed property, procedure.

Privileges on ships and vessels, enumeration and ranking; prescription.

Proportionate payment to creditors of same rank.

Right of pursuit after sale of ship.

Privilege on price of adjudication in case of forced sale.

Voluntary sale, distinction between sale in port or on voyage.

Voluntary sale of ship in port, rights of privileged creditors.

Loss of privilege after voyage in name of purchaser.

Voluntary sale of ship while on voyage, rights of privileged creditors.

Voyage, definition.

Captain's privilege on cargo for freight charges.

Privilege of consignee or agent on merchandise consigned.

Rights of consignor on insolvency of consignee or agent.

Special privileges on immovables

Extent of vendor's privilege.

Successive sales, preference among vendors

General privileges on both movables and immovables.

Order of payment of privileges; debtor's movables taken before immovables.

Special privileges prime general privileges on movables; ranking among general privileges when movables sufficient.

Order of payment when available movables insufficient.

Lessor's privilege primed by costs of sale.

Lessor's privilege primed by funeral charges.

Lessor's privilege primes other general privileges.

Lessor's privilege on crops primed by supplies and labor.

Ranking between privileges of lessor and depositor.

Depositor's privilege and other privileges.

Privilege for expenses of preservation and other privileges.

Vendor's privilege and other privileges.

Privilege of innkeepers.

Privilege of carriers.

Immovables liable when movables insufficient.

Special privileges on immovables and other privileges

Repealed

Order of payment out of immovables; distribution of loss among mortgage creditors.

Effect of priorities among privileges.

Vendor's privilege on immovables, recordation.

Repealed

Recordation, effect against third persons.

Time and place of recordation; effectiveness.

Repealed by Acts 2016, No. 227, §2.

Priority of claims against succession arising after death.

Methods of extinction.

Mortgage defined

Rights created by mortgage

Mortgage is an indivisible real right

Mortgage established only in authorized cases

Accessory nature

Kinds of mortgages

Conventional, legal, and judicial mortgages

General and special mortgages distinguished

Property susceptible of mortgage

Conventional mortgage

Requirements of contract of mortgage

Acceptance

Power to mortgage

Presumption that things are subject to conventional mortgage

Mortgage of future property permitted in certain cases

Obligations for which mortgage may be established

Mortgage securing obligation that is not for the payment of money

Mortgage securing another's obligation

Right of mortgagor to raise defenses

Restrictions upon recourse of mortgagee

Mortgage may secure future obligations

Judicial and legal mortgages

Creation of judicial mortgage

Creation of legal mortgage

Property burdened by judicial and legal mortgages

Nature of judicial and legal mortgages

Judgment; suspensive appeal

Judgments of other jurisdictions

Judgment against person deceased

The effect and rank of mortgages

Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.

Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.

Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.

Mortgage securing several obligations

Transfer of the secured obligation

Transfer does not imply subordination

Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.

Third possessor defined

Liability of third possessor

Rights of third possessor

Right of third possessor for costs of improvements

Methods of extinction

Recordation; limits of effectiveness

Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.

Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.

Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.

Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.

Paraph of notes or written obligations secured by a mortgage, privilege, or other encumbrance

Effect of mortgage filed after death of mortgagor

Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.

Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.

Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.

Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.

Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.

Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.

Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.

Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.

Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.

Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.

Cancellation of mortgages and privileges from the records

Instruments creating real rights in immovables; recordation required to affect third persons

Matters not of record

Effect of recording other documents

Limits on the effect of recordation

Parties to an instrument are precluded from raising certain matters

Third person defined

Refusal for failure of original signature or proper certification; effect of recordation; necessity of proof of signature recordation of a duplicate

Recordation of a duplicate

Place of recordation; duty of the recorder

Effect of recordation arises upon filing

Time of filing; determination

Failure to endorse; effect

Presumption as to time of filing

Ancient documents; presumptions

Recorded acts; required information

Effect of indefinite or incomplete name

Applicability

Mortgage, pledge, or privilege affecting property in several parishes

Transfers, amendments, and releases

Duration; general rule

Duration of recordation of certain mortgages, pledges, and privileges

Duration of recordation of judicial mortgage

Duration of recordation of mortgage given by tutor, curator, or succession representative

Effect of amendment

Method of reinscription

Method of reinscription exclusive

Effect of timely recordation of notice of reinscription

Effect of request recorded after cessation of effect of recordation

Cancellation upon written request; form and content

Cancellation of recordation after effect of recordation has ceased

Cancellation of prescribed judicial mortgage

Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 1132, 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.

Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 1132, 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.

Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 1132, 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.

Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 1132, 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.

Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 1132, 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.

Arts 3400 to 3404 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.

Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 1132, 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.

Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 1132, 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.

Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 1132, 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.

Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 1132, 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.

Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 1132, 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.

Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 1132, 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.

Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 1132, 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.

Occupancy

Wild animals, birds, fish, and shellfish

Loss of ownership of wildlife

Wildlife in enclosures

Tamed wild animals

Domestic animals

Abandoned things

Lost things

Lost things; domestic animals

Treasure

Possession

Nature of possession; right to possess

Rights of possessors

Acquisition of possession

Corporeal possession

Constructive possession

Presumption of intent to own the thing

Acquisition of possession through another

Exercise of possession by another

Juridical persons

Retention of possession; civil possession

Presumption of retention of possession

Loss of possession

Loss of the right to possess

Vices of possession

Violent, clandestine, discontinuous, and equivocal possession

Precarious possession

Presumption of precariousness

Termination of precarious possession

Protection of precarious possession

Transfer of possession

Tacking of possession

Presumption of continuity of possession

Possessory action

Kinds of prescription

Acquisitive prescription

Liberative prescription

Prescription of nonuse

Renunciation of prescription

Express or tacit renunciation

Capacity to renounce

Necessity for pleading prescription

Rights of creditors and other interested parties

Computation of time

Computation of time by months

Computation of time by years

Prescription established by legislation only

Peremption; effect

Application of rules of prescription

Peremption need not be pleaded

Renunciation, interruption, or suspension ineffective

Interruption by filing of suit or by service of process

Duration of interruption; abandonment or discontinuance of suit

Interruption by acknowledgment

Interruption of acquisitive prescription

Effect of interruption

Persons against whom prescription runs

Incompetents

Suspension of prescription

Prescription during delays for inventory; vacant succession

Limits of contractual freedom

Effect of suspension

Emergency suspension of prescription and peremption

Prescription of ten years

Incompetents

Requisites

Attributes of possession

Precarious possessor; inability to prescribe

Termination of precarious possession; commencement of prescription

Particular successor of precarious possessor

Good faith

Presumption of good faith

Good faith at commencement of prescription

Just title

Transfer of undivided part of an immovable

Things susceptible of prescription

Immovables; prescription of thirty years

Restriction as to extent of possession

Applicability of rules governing prescription of ten years

Movables; acquisitive prescription

Prescription of three years

Prescription of ten years

Delictual actions

Damage to immovable property; commencement and accrual of prescription

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Delictual actions; two-year prescription; criminal act

Actions subject to a three-year prescription

Commencement and accrual of prescription

Action against attorney for return of papers

Action against a person for abuse of a minor

Action against a person for sexual assault

Actions subject to a five year prescription

Actions for arrearages of spousal support or of installment payments for contributions made to a spouse's education or training

Actions on negotiable and nonnegotiable instruments

Personal action

Action against contractors and architects

Prescription and revival of money judgments

Actions for arrearages of child support

Action for the recognition of a right of inheritance

Solidary obligors

Surety

Acts extending liberative prescription

Formal requirements

Commencement of period of extension

Effect of extension on other obligors and obligees

Interruption or suspension during a period of extension

General definitions of terms

Arts. 3507 to 3514 Repealed by Acts 1982, No. 187, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1983

Determination of the applicable law; general and residual rule

Meaning of "State"

Renvoi

Domicile

Status of natural persons; general principle

Marriage

Divorce or separation

Effects and incidents of marriage and of divorce

Movables

Immovables situated in this state

Termination of community; immovables in another state acquired by a spouse while domiciled in this state

Termination of community; movables and Louisiana immovables acquired by a spouse while domiciled in another state

Louisiana immovables acquired by a spouse while domiciled in another state; death of the acquiring spouse while domiciled in another state

Formal validity of testamentary dispositions

Capacity and vices of consent

Capacity of heir or legatee

Interpretation of testaments

Movables

Immovables situated in this state

Immovables situated in another state

Real rights in immovables

Real rights in corporeal movables

General rule

Form

Capacity

Party autonomy

Other juridical acts and quasi-contractual obligations

General rule

Issues of conduct and safety

Issues of loss distribution and financial protection

Products liability

Punitive damages

Exceptional cases

Domicile of juridical persons

Law governing liberative prescription

Arts. 3550 to 3555 Repealed by Acts 1983, No. 173, 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.

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