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Revised Statutes
TITLE 34 - Navigation and Shipping
RS 34:862 - Detaining effects of seamen for debt
LA Rev Stat § 34:862 (2016) What's This?
§862. Detaining effects of seamen for debt
No keeper of a public or lodging house for seamen shall withhold or detain any chest, bed or bedding, clothes, or tools, or other effects of any seaman, for any debt alleged to be due by the seaman. Any magistrate may, by warrant, cause the detained property to be seized and delivered to the seaman.
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