2016 Louisiana Laws
Civil Code
CC 794 - Determination of ownership according to prescription.

LA Civ Code 794 (2016) What's This?

Art. 794. Determination of ownership according to prescription.

When a party proves acquisitive prescription, the boundary shall be fixed according to limits established by prescription rather than titles. If a party and his ancestors in title possessed for thirty years without interruption, within visible bounds, more land than their title called for, the boundary shall be fixed along these bounds.

Acts 1977, No. 169, §1.

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