2011 Louisiana Laws
Civil Code
CC 3343 — Third person defined


LA Civ Code 3343 What's This?

Art. 3343. Third person defined

A third person is a person who is not a party to or personally bound by an instrument.

A witness to an act is a third person with respect to it.

A person who by contract assumes an obligation or is bound by contract to recognize a right is not a third person with respect to the obligation or right or to the instrument creating or establishing it.

Acts 2005, No. 169, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2006; Acts 2005, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 13, §1, eff. Nov. 29, 2005.

NOTE: Acts 2005, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 13, §1, changed the effective date of Acts 2005, No. 169, to July 1, 2006.

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