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- CCP 1 - Jurisdiction defined
- CCP 2 - Jurisdiction over subject matter
- CCP 3 - Same; cannot be conferred by consent
- CCP 4 - Same; determination when dependent on amount in dispute or value of right asserted
- CCP 5 - Same; effect of reduction of claim
- CCP 6 - Jurisdiction over the person
- CCP 7 - Repealed by Acts 1997, No. 578, 5.
- CCP 8 - Jurisdiction over property; in rem
- CCP 9 - Same; quasi in rem; attachment
- CCP 10 - Jurisdiction over status
- CCP 11 - Military personnel
- CCP 41 - Definition
- CCP 42 - General rules
- CCP 43 - Exceptions to general rules
- CCP 44 - Waiver of objections to venue
- CCP 45 - Conflict between two or more articles in Chapter
- CCP 71 - Action against individual who has changed domicile
- CCP 72 - Certain actions involving property
- CCP 73 - Action against joint or solidary obligors
- CCP 74 - Action on offense or quasi offense
- CCP 74.1 - Action to establish or disavow filiation
- CCP 74.2 - Custody proceedings; support; forum non conveniens
- CCP 74.3 - Marriage of persons related by adoption
- CCP 74.3.1 - Marriage of persons; waiver of certain information
- CCP 74.4 - Action on an open account or a promissory note
- CCP 74.5 - Adult adoption
- CCP 74.6 - Actions to seek court approval by parents during marriage
- CCP 75 - Action on judicial bond
- CCP 76 - Action on insurance policy
- CCP 76.1 - Action on contract
- CCP 77 - Action against person doing business in another parish
- CCP 78 - Action against partners of existing partnership
- CCP 79 - Action to dissolve partnership
- CCP 80 - Action involving immovable property
- CCP 81 - Action involving succession
- CCP 82 - Action to partition community property
- CCP 83 - Action to partition partnership property
- CCP 84 - Action involving certain retirement systems and employee benefit programs
- CCP 85 - Action against domestic corporation; charter revoked by secretary of state
- CCP 86 - Action involving voting trusts
- CCP 87 - Action involving application for compensation for wrongful conviction and imprisonment
- CCP 121 - Action brought in improper venue; transfer
- CCP 122 - Change of proper venue
- CCP 123 - Forum non conveniens
- CCP 124 - Forum non conveniens; transfer to city court
- CCP 151 - Grounds
- CCP 152 - Recusation on court's own motion or by supreme court
- CCP 153 - Judge may act until recused or motion for recusation filed
- CCP 154 - Procedure for recusation
- CCP 155 - Selection of judge to try motion to recuse; court having two or more judges
- CCP 156 - Same; court having single judge
- CCP 157 - Judge ad hoc appointed to try cause when judge recused; power of judge ad hoc
- CCP 158 - Supreme court appointment of district judge to try cause when judge recused
- CCP 159 - Recusation of supreme court justice
- CCP 160 - Recusation of judge of court of appeal
- CCP 161 - Recusation of judge ad hoc
- CCP 191 - Inherent judicial power
- CCP 192 - Appointment of expert witnesses; expenses
- CCP 192.1 - Interpreters for deaf and severely hearing-impaired persons
- CCP 192.2 - Appointment of interpreter for non-English-speaking persons
- CCP 193 - Power to adopt local rules; publication
- CCP 194 - Power of district court to act in chambers; signing orders and judgments
- CCP 195 - Same; judicial proceedings
- CCP 196 - Power of district court to act in vacation
- CCP 196.1 - Power of courts to act during emergencies
- CCP 197 - Testimony of inmates
- CCP 221 - Kinds of contempt
- CCP 222 - Direct contempt
- CCP 222.1 - Direct contempt; fingerprinting and photographing; exception
- CCP 223 - Same; procedure for punishing
- CCP 224 - Constructive contempt
- CCP 225 - Same; procedure for punishing
- CCP 226 - Same; imprisonment until performance
- CCP 227 - Punishment for contempt
- CCP 251 - Custodian of court records; certified copies; records public
- CCP 252 - Issuance of process
- CCP 253 - Pleadings, documents, and exhibits to be filed with clerk
- CCP 253.1 - Pleadings; random assignment of cases
- CCP 253.2 - Transfer and reassignment of pending cases
- CCP 253.3 - Duty judge exceptions; authority to hear certain matters
- CCP 254 - Docket and minute books
- CCP 255 - Deputy clerks and other employees
- CCP 256 - Minute clerk
- CCP 257 - Neglect, failure, or refusal of clerk, deputy, or other employee to perform duty subjects him to punishment for contempt
- CCP 258 - Electronic filing and recording of written instruments
- CCP 259 - Liability of clerk of court
- CCP 281 - Certain articles not applicable to Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans
- CCP 282 - Acts which may be done by district court clerk
- CCP 283 - Orders and judgments which may be signed by district court clerk
- CCP 284 - Judicial powers of district court clerk
- CCP 285 - Powers of district court clerk may be exercised whether judge absent from parish or not
- CCP 286 - Powers of district court clerk which may not be exercised by deputy; powers of chief deputy clerk
- CCP 287 - District court clerk ex officio notary
- CCP 288 - Functions which district court clerk may exercise on holiday
- CCP 321 - Executive officer of district court; serves process, executes writs and mandates directed to him by courts
- CCP 322 - Exercises civil functions only in own parish; exception
- CCP 323 - Writs executed on holiday
- CCP 324 - Returns on process served, and writs and judgments executed
- CCP 325 - Right of entry for execution; may require assistance of others if resistance offered or threatened
- CCP 326 - Protection and preservation of property seized
- CCP 327 - Seizure of rents, fruits, and revenue of property under seizure
- CCP 328 - Power of administration of property under seizure
- CCP 329 - Disbursements for protection, preservation, and administration of seized property
- CCP 330 - Collection of fines from, and imprisonment of, persons found guilty of contempt of court
- CCP 331 - Deputy sheriffs and other employees
- CCP 332 - Service or execution by constable or marshal
- CCP 333 - Crier
- CCP 334 - Neglect, failure, or refusal of sheriff, deputy sheriff, or employee to perform duty subjects him to punishment for contempt
- CCP 371 - Attorney
- CCP 372 - Court reporter
- CCP 373 - Expert appointed by court
- CCP 374 - Legal representative
- CCP 375 - Neglect, failure, or refusal of expert or legal representative to perform a legal duty when ordered to do so, subjects him to punishment for contempt of court
- CCP 376 - Limitation of immunity
- CCP 421 - Civil action; commencement; amicable demand unnecessary
- CCP 422 - Personal, real, mixed actions
- CCP 423 - Implied right to enforce obligation; prematurity
- CCP 424 - Cause of action as a defense
- CCP 425 - Preclusion by judgment
- CCP 426 - Transmission of action and of right to enforce obligation
- CCP 427 - Action against obligor's heirs or legatees
- CCP 428 - No abatement on death of party
- CCP 461 - Cumulation of actions defined
- CCP 462 - Cumulation by single plaintiff against single defendant
- CCP 463 - Cumulation, plural plaintiffs or defendants
- CCP 464 - Improper cumulation, effect
- CCP 465 - Separate trials of cumulated actions
- CCP 466 - Repealed by Acts 1983, No. 534, 11.
- CCP 531 - Suits pending in Louisiana court or courts
- CCP 532 - Motions to stay in suits pending in Louisiana and federal or foreign court
- CCP 561 - Abandonment in trial and appellate court
- CCP 591 - Prerequisites; maintainable class actions
- CCP 592 - Certification procedure; notice; judgment; orders
- CCP 593 - Venue
- CCP 593.1 - Class actions; lis pendens
- CCP 593.2 - Class actions; forum non conveniens
- CCP 594 - Dismissal or compromise
- CCP 595 - Award of expenses of litigation; security for costs
- CCP 596 - Prescription; suspension
- CCP 597 - Effect of judgment
- CCP 611 - Derivative actions; prerequisites
- CCP 612 - Representation
- CCP 613 - Procedure
- CCP 614 - Venue
- CCP 615 - Petition in shareholder's derivative action
- CCP 616 - Shareholder's derivative action when not impracticable to join all shareholders, partners, or members
- CCP 617 - Unincorporated association; definition; applicability
- CCP 641 - Joinder of parties needed for just adjudication
- CCP 642 - Determination by court whenever joinder not feasible
- CCP 643 - Solidary obligees and obligors; joinder
- CCP 644 - Party plaintiff who refuses or fails to sue
- CCP 645 - Pleading nonjoinder of a party
- CCP 646 - Amendment of petition to join a party
- CCP 647 - Permissive joinder governed by rules of cumulation of actions
- CCP 681 - Real and actual interest required
- CCP 682 - Individuals having procedural capacity
- CCP 683 - Unemancipated minor
- CCP 684 - Mental incompetent; interdict
- CCP 685 - Succession
- CCP 686 - Marital community
- CCP 687 - Person doing business under trade name
- CCP 688 - Partnership
- CCP 689 - Unincorporated association
- CCP 690 - Domestic corporation; insurer; limited liability company
- CCP 691 - Foreign corporation; foreign limited liability company; foreign or alien insurance corporation
- CCP 692 - Corporation, limited liability company, or partnership in receivership or liquidation
- CCP 693 - Insurer in receivership
- CCP 694 - Agent
- CCP 695 - Absent or mentally incompetent managing spouse
- CCP 696 - Pledgor and pledgee
- CCP 697 - Subrogor and subrogee
- CCP 698 - Assignor and assignee
- CCP 699 - Trust estate
- CCP 700 - Authority or qualification of plaintiff suing in representative capacity
- CCP 731 - Individuals having procedural capacity
- CCP 732 - Unemancipated minor
- CCP 733 - Mental incompetent; interdict
- CCP 734 - Succession
- CCP 735 - Marital community
- CCP 736 - Person doing business under trade name
- CCP 737 - Partnership; partners
- CCP 738 - Unincorporated association; members
- CCP 739 - Corporation; limited liability company; insurer
- CCP 740 - Corporation; limited liability company; partnership in receivership or liquidation
- CCP 741 - Insurer in receivership
- CCP 742 - Trust estate
- CCP 743 - Absent or mentally incompetent managing spouse
- CCP 771 - Rules applicable
- CCP 801 - Voluntary substitution for deceased party; legal successor
- CCP 802 - Compulsory substitution for deceased party; summons
- CCP 803 - Same; service or publication of summons
- CCP 804 - Same; effect of failure of legal successor to appear
- CCP 805 - Legal representative; successor
- CCP 806 - Public officer
- CCP 807 - Transfer of interest
- CCP 821 - Rules of Chapter applicable to district courts; rules of other appellate courts applicable
- CCP 851 - Three modes of procedure; Book II governs ordinary proceedings
- CCP 852 - Pleadings allowed; replicatory pleadings prohibited
- CCP 853 - Caption of pleadings; adoption by reference; exhibits
- CCP 854 - Form of pleading
- CCP 855 - Pleading special matters; capacity
- CCP 856 - Same; fraud, mistake, or condition of the mind
- CCP 857 - Same; suspensive conditions
- CCP 858 - Same; official document or act
- CCP 859 - Same; judgment or decision
- CCP 860 - Same; time and place
- CCP 861 - Same; special damage
- CCP 862 - Relief granted under pleadings; sufficiency of prayer
- CCP 863 - Signing of pleadings, effect
- CCP 864 - Attorney subject to disciplinary action
- CCP 865 - Construction of pleadings
- CCP 891 - Form of petition
- CCP 892 - Alternative causes of action
- CCP 893 - Pleading of damages
- CCP 921 - Exception defined
- CCP 922 - Kinds of exceptions
- CCP 923 - Functions of exceptions
- CCP 924 - Form of exceptions
- CCP 925 - Objections raised by declinatory exception; waiver
- CCP 926 - Objections raised by dilatory exception; waiver
- CCP 927 - Objections raised by peremptory exception
- CCP 928 - Time of pleading exceptions
- CCP 929 - Time of trial of exceptions
- CCP 930 - Evidence on trial of declinatory and dilatory exceptions
- CCP 931 - Evidence on trial of peremptory exception
- CCP 932 - Effect of sustaining declinatory exception
- CCP 933 - Effect of sustaining dilatory exception
- CCP 934 - Effect of sustaining peremptory exception
- CCP 961 - Written motion required; exception
- CCP 962 - Form of written motion
- CCP 963 - Ex parte and contradictory motions; rule to show cause
- CCP 964 - Motion to strike
- CCP 965 - Motion for judgment on pleadings
- CCP 966 - Motion for summary judgment; procedure
- CCP 967 - Same; affidavits
- CCP 968 - Effect of judgment on pleadings and summary judgment
- CCP 969 - Judgment on pleadings and summary judgment not permitted in certain cases; exception
- CCP 970 - Motion for judgment on offer of judgment
- CCP 971 - Special motion to strike
- CCP 1001 - Delay for answering
- CCP 1002 - Answer or other pleading filed prior to signing of final default judgment
- CCP 1003 - Form of answer
- CCP 1004 - Denials
- CCP 1005 - Affirmative defenses
- CCP 1006 - Alternative defenses
- CCP 1031 - Incidental demands allowed
- CCP 1032 - Form of petition
- CCP 1033 - Delay for filing incidental demand
- CCP 1034 - Exceptions and motions
- CCP 1035 - Answer
- CCP 1036 - Jurisdiction; mode of procedure
- CCP 1037 - Action instituted separately
- CCP 1038 - Separate trial; separate judgment
- CCP 1039 - Effect of dismissal of principal action
- CCP 1040 - Words "plaintiff" and "defendant" include plaintiff and defendant in an incidental action
- CCP 1041 - When prescribed incidental or third party demand is not barred
- CCP 1061 - Actions pleaded in reconventional demand; compulsory
- CCP 1062 - Pleading compensation
- CCP 1063 - Service of reconventional demand; citation unnecessary
- CCP 1064 - Additional parties
- CCP 1065 - Reconventional demand exceeding principal demand
- CCP 1066 - Action matured or acquired after pleading
- CCP 1067 - Redesignated to C.C.P. Art. 1041
- CCP 1071 - Cross-claims
- CCP 1072 - Service of cross-claim, citation unnecessary
- CCP 1073 - Additional parties
- CCP 1091 - Third person may intervene
- CCP 1092 - Third person asserting ownership of, or mortgage or privilege on, seized property
- CCP 1093 - Service of petition; citation unnecessary
- CCP 1094 - Intervener accepts proceedings
- CCP 1111 - Defendant may bring in third person
- CCP 1112 - Defendant in reconvention may bring in third person
- CCP 1113 - Effect of failure to bring in third party
- CCP 1114 - Service of citation and pleadings
- CCP 1115 - Defenses of original defendant available to third party defendant
- CCP 1116 - Third party defendant may bring in third person
- CCP 1151 - Amendment of petition and answer; answer to amended petition
- CCP 1152 - Amendment of exceptions
- CCP 1153 - Amendment relates back
- CCP 1154 - Amendment to conform to evidence
- CCP 1155 - Supplemental pleadings
- CCP 1156 - Amended and supplemental pleadings in incidental action
- CCP 1201 - Citation; waiver; delay for service
- CCP 1202 - Form of citation
- CCP 1203 - Citation to legal representative of multiple defendants
- CCP 1231 - Types of service; time of making
- CCP 1232 - Personal service
- CCP 1233 - Same; where made
- CCP 1234 - Domiciliary service
- CCP 1235 - Service on representative
- CCP 1235.1 - Service on incarcerated person
- CCP 1236 - Service on clerical employees of physicians
- CCP 1237 - Service on individual in multiple capacities
- CCP 1261 - Domestic or foreign corporation
- CCP 1262 - Same; secretary of state
- CCP 1263 - Partnership
- CCP 1264 - Unincorporated association
- CCP 1265 - Political entity; public officer
- CCP 1266 - Limited liability company
- CCP 1267 - Same; service on secretary of state
- CCP 1291 - Service by sheriff
- CCP 1292 - Sheriff's return
- CCP 1293 - Service by private person
- CCP 1311 - Service of copy of exhibit to pleading unnecessary
- CCP 1312 - Service of pleadings subsequent to petition; exceptions
- CCP 1313 - Service by mail, delivery, or electronic means
- CCP 1314 - Same; service by sheriff
- CCP 1351 - Issuance; form
- CCP 1352 - Restrictions on subpoena
- CCP 1353 - Prepayment of fees
- CCP 1354 - Subpoena duces tecum
- CCP 1355 - Service of subpoena
- CCP 1355.1 - Reissuance of subpoena; service by certified or registered mail
- CCP 1356 - Subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum for depositions or inspections
- CCP 1357 - Failure to comply with subpoena
- CCP 1391 - Repealed by Acts 1988, No. 515, 7, eff. Jan. 1, 1989.
- CCP 1392 - Proof of statutes
- CCP 1393 - Repealed by Acts 1988, No. 515, 7, eff. Jan. 1, 1989.
- CCP 1394 - Repealed by Acts 1988, No. 515, 7, eff. Jan. 1, 1989.
- CCP 1395 - Repealed by Acts 1988, No. 515, 7, eff. Jan. 1, 1989.
- CCP 1396 - Repealed by Acts 1988, No. 515, 7, eff. Jan. 1, 1989.
- CCP 1397 - Repealed by Acts 1988, No. 515, 7, eff. Jan. 1, 1989.
- CCP 1420 - Signing of discovery requests, responses, or objections
- CCP 1421 - Discovery methods
- CCP 1422 - Scope of discovery; in general
- CCP 1422.1 - Scope of discovery; records of the Louisiana Bureau of Criminal Identification and Information
- CCP 1423 - Scope of discovery; insurance agreements
- CCP 1424 - Scope of discovery; trial preparation; materials
- CCP 1425 - Experts; pretrial disclosures; scope of discovery
- CCP 1426 - Protective orders
- CCP 1426.1 - Stay of discovery in civil matters by a district attorney in a related criminal matter
- CCP 1427 - Sequence and timing of discovery
- CCP 1428 - Supplementation of responses
- CCP 1429 - Perpetuation of testimony; petition
- CCP 1430 - Notice and service of petition; perpetuation of testimony
- CCP 1430.1 - Ex parte order; death or incapacitating illness
- CCP 1431 - Order and examination; perpetuation of testimony
- CCP 1432 - Use of deposition
- CCP 1433 - Deposition after trial
- CCP 1434 - Person before whom deposition taken
- CCP 1435 - Deposition taken in another state, or in a territory, district, or foreign jurisdiction
- CCP 1436 - Stipulations; manner of taking; modification of procedures
- CCP 1436.1 - Depositions by telephone
- CCP 1437 - Deposition upon oral examination; when deposition may be taken
- CCP 1438 - Notice of examination; time and place; subpoena duces tecum
- CCP 1439 - Special notice
- CCP 1440 - Nonstenographic recordation of testimony
- CCP 1441 - Production of documents and things
- CCP 1442 - Deposition of an organization
- CCP 1443 - Examination and cross-examination; record of examination; oath; objections
- CCP 1444 - Motion to terminate; limit examination
- CCP 1445 - Submission to witness; changes; signing
- CCP 1446 - Certification by officer; custody of deposition; exhibits; copies; notice of availability for inspection or copying; cost of originals and copies of transcripts
- CCP 1447 - Failure to attend or to serve subpoena; expenses
- CCP 1448 - Serving written questions; notice
- CCP 1449 - Taking of testimony; preparation of record; notice of filing
- CCP 1450 - Use of depositions
- CCP 1451 - Objections to admissibility
- CCP 1452 - Effect of taking or using depositions; deposing attorneys of record
- CCP 1453 - Objection to irregularities in notice; waiver
- CCP 1454 - Objections as to disqualification of officer; waiver
- CCP 1455 - Objections, competency of witnesses; relevancy of testimony; manner or form of taking deposition
- CCP 1456 - Objection as to completion and return of deposition
- CCP 1457 - Interrogatories to parties; availability; additional, hearing required
- CCP 1458 - Interrogatories to parties; procedures for use
- CCP 1459 - Interrogatories to parties; scope; use at trial
- CCP 1460 - Option to produce business records
- CCP 1461 - Production of documents and things; entry upon land; scope
- CCP 1462 - Production of documents and things; entry upon land; procedure
- CCP 1463 - Production of documents and things; entry upon land, persons not parties
- CCP 1464 - Order for an additional medical opinion for physical or mental examination of persons
- CCP 1465 - Report of examining physician
- CCP 1465.1 - Requests for release of medical records
- CCP 1466 - Requests for admission; service of request
- CCP 1467 - Requests for admission; answers and objections
- CCP 1468 - Requests for admissions; effect of admission
- CCP 1469 - Motion for order compelling discovery
- CCP 1469.1 - Order compelling discovery of medical records
- CCP 1469.2 - Order compelling discovery of financial records; notice
- CCP 1470 - Failure to comply with order compelling discovery; contempt
- CCP 1471 - Failure to comply with order compelling discovery; sanctions
- CCP 1472 - Failure to admit; expenses
- CCP 1473 - Failure to attend deposition, serve answers or respond to request for inspection
- CCP 1474 - Service of written objections, notices, requests, affidavits, interrogatories, and answers thereto
- CCP 1475 - Affidavit for medical cost; counter affidavit; service
- CCP 1551 - Pretrial and scheduling conference; order
- CCP 1552 - Environmental management orders
- CCP 1561 - Consolidation for trial
- CCP 1562 - Separate trials of issues of insurance coverage, liability, and damages
- CCP 1563 - Limited admission of liability in environmental damage lawsuits; effect
- CCP 1571 - Assignment by court rule
- CCP 1572 - Written request for notice of trial
- CCP 1573 - Assignment of trials; preference; terminally ill
- CCP 1601 - Discretionary grounds
- CCP 1602 - Peremptory grounds
- CCP 1603 - Motion for continuance
- CCP 1604 - Prevention of continuance by admission of adverse party
- CCP 1605 - Trial of motion; order
- CCP 1631 - Power of court over proceedings; exclusion of witnesses; mistrial
- CCP 1632 - Order of trial
- CCP 1633 - Oath or affirmation of witnesses; refusal to testify
- CCP 1633.1 - Live trial testimony by video
- CCP 1634 - Cross-examination of a party or person identified with a party
- CCP 1635 - Exceptions unnecessary
- CCP 1636 - Evidence held inadmissible; record or statement as to nature thereof
- CCP 1637 - Completion of trial; pronouncement of judgment
- CCP 1671 - Voluntary dismissal
- CCP 1672 - Involuntary dismissal
- CCP 1673 - Effect of dismissal with or without prejudice
- CCP 1701 - Preliminary default
- CCP 1702 - Confirmation of default judgment
- CCP 1702.1 - Confirmation of preliminary default without hearing in open court; required information; certifications
- CCP 1703 - Scope of judgment
- CCP 1704 - Confirmation of preliminary default in suits against the state or a political subdivision
- CCP 1731 - Issues triable by jury
- CCP 1732 - Limitation upon jury trials
- CCP 1733 - Demand for jury trial; bond for costs
- CCP 1734 - Fixing the bond; calling the jury venire
- CCP 1734.1 - Cash deposit; procedure
- CCP 1735 - Specification of issues
- CCP 1736 - Trial of less than all issues; stipulation
- CCP 1751 - Qualification and exemptions of jurors
- CCP 1761 - Procedure in general
- CCP 1762 - Swearing of juror before examination
- CCP 1763 - Examination of juror
- CCP 1764 - Peremptory challenges
- CCP 1765 - Challenges for cause
- CCP 1766 - Time for challenges; method
- CCP 1767 - Challenging or excusing jurors after acceptance
- CCP 1768 - Swearing of jurors; selection of foreman
- CCP 1769 - Alternate jurors
- CCP 1791 - Comment on facts by judge prohibited
- CCP 1792 - Charge to the jury
- CCP 1793 - Instructions to jury; objections
- CCP 1794 - Taking evidence to jury room
- CCP 1795 - Jury request to review evidence
- CCP 1796 - Additional instructions
- CCP 1797 - Number required for verdict
- CCP 1810 - Directed verdicts; motion to dismiss at close of plaintiff's evidence
- CCP 1810.1 - Repealed by Acts 1983, No. 534, 11.
- CCP 1811 - Motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict
- CCP 1812 - Special verdicts
- CCP 1813 - General verdict accompanied by answer to interrogatories
- CCP 1814 - Remittitur or additur as alternative to new trial; reformation of verdict
- CCP 1841 - Judgments, interlocutory and final
- CCP 1842 - Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 521, 3, eff. Jan. 1, 1991.
- CCP 1843 - Final default judgment
- CCP 1844 - Judgment of dismissal; effect
- CCP 1871 - Declaratory judgments; scope
- CCP 1872 - Interested parties may obtain declaration of rights, status, or other legal relations
- CCP 1873 - Construction of contract
- CCP 1874 - Interested person may obtain declaration of rights; purpose
- CCP 1875 - Powers enumerated not exclusive
- CCP 1876 - Court may refuse declaratory judgment
- CCP 1877 - Review of judgments and decrees
- CCP 1878 - Supplemental relief; expedited hearing for constitutional determination; effect of pendency of other proceedings
- CCP 1879 - Trial and determination of issue of fact
- CCP 1880 - Parties
- CCP 1881 - Construction
- CCP 1882 - Provisions independent and severable
- CCP 1883 - Uniformity of interpretation
- CCP 1911 - Final judgment; partial final judgment; signing; appeals
- CCP 1912 - Final judgment; multi-parish districts, signing in any parish in the state
- CCP 1913 - Notice of judgment
- CCP 1914 - Interlocutory judgments; notice; delay for further action
- CCP 1915 - Partial final judgment; partial judgment; partial exception; partial summary judgment
- CCP 1916 - Jury cases; compromise agreements; signature of judgment by the court
- CCP 1917 - Findings of the court and reasons for judgment
- CCP 1918 - Form of final judgment
- CCP 1919 - Judgment affecting immovable property; particular description
- CCP 1920 - Costs; parties liable; procedure for taxing
- CCP 1921 - Interest allowed by the judgment
- CCP 1922 - Money judgments; judgment debtor; date of birth; social security number
- CCP 1951 - Amendment of judgment
- CCP 1971 - Granting of new trial
- CCP 1972 - Peremptory grounds
- CCP 1973 - Discretionary grounds
- CCP 1974 - Delay for applying for new trial
- CCP 1975 - Application for new trial; verifying affidavit
- CCP 1976 - Service of notice
- CCP 1977 - Assignment of new trial
- CCP 1978 - Procedure in new trial
- CCP 1979 - Summary decision on motion; maximum delays
- CCP 2001 - Grounds in general
- CCP 2002 - Annulment for vices of form; time for action
- CCP 2003 - Same; action lost through acquiescence
- CCP 2004 - Annulment for vices of substance; peremption of action
- CCP 2005 - Annulment of judgments; effect of appeal
- CCP 2006 - Court where action brought
- CCP 2031 - Revival of judgments
- CCP 2081 - Applicability of Title
- CCP 2082 - Definition of appeal
- CCP 2083 - Judgments appealable
- CCP 2084 - Legal representative may appeal
- CCP 2085 - Limitations on appeals
- CCP 2086 - Right of third person to appeal
- CCP 2087 - Delay for taking devolutive appeal
- CCP 2088 - Divesting of jurisdiction of trial court
- CCP 2089 - Description required of immovable property affected by judgments or decrees
- CCP 2121 - Method of appealing
- CCP 2122 - Appointment or removal of legal representative not suspended by appeal; effect of vacating appointment on appeal
- CCP 2123 - Delay for taking suspensive appeal
- CCP 2124 - Security to be furnished for an appeal
- CCP 2125 - Return day
- CCP 2125.1 - Notice of extension of return day granted by clerk of trial court
- CCP 2126 - Payment of costs
- CCP 2127 - Record on appeal; preparation
- CCP 2127.1 - Same; certified and dated
- CCP 2127.2 - Same; preparation and delivery of transcript
- CCP 2127.3 - Same; contempt
- CCP 2128 - Same; determination of content
- CCP 2128.1 - Depositions
- CCP 2129 - Assignment of errors unnecessary; exception
- CCP 2130 - Record on appeal; statement of facts
- CCP 2131 - Same; narrative of facts
- CCP 2132 - Same; correction
- CCP 2133 - Answer of appellee; when necessary
- CCP 2161 - Dismissal for irregularities
- CCP 2162 - Dismissal by consent of parties, or because of lack of jurisdiction or right to appeal, or abandonment; transfer
- CCP 2163 - Peremptory exception filed in appellate court; remand if prescription pleaded
- CCP 2164 - Scope of appeal and action to be taken; costs
- CCP 2164.1 - Assignment of appellate panels
- CCP 2165 - Appeals deemed abandoned
- CCP 2166 - Rehearing, court of appeal judgment; finality; stay
- CCP 2167 - Rehearing, supreme court judgment; finality; stay
- CCP 2168 - Posting of unpublished opinions; citation
- CCP 2201 - Supervisory writs
- CCP 2251 - Execution only in trial court; appellate court judgment
- CCP 2252 - Delay before proceeding with execution
- CCP 2253 - Writ from clerk to sheriff
- CCP 2254 - Execution by sheriff; return; wrongful seizure
- CCP 2291 - Money judgment; fieri facias
- CCP 2292 - Privilege of creditor on seized property; successive seizures
- CCP 2293 - Notice to judgment debtor; appointment of attorney
- CCP 2294 - Time for seizure; return
- CCP 2294.1 - Time for seizure; return; city courts in Orleans Parish
- CCP 2295 - Order of sale; sale in globo
- CCP 2296 - Reduction of excessive seizure
- CCP 2297 - Alias fieri facias
- CCP 2298 - Injunction prohibiting sale; damages
- CCP 2299 - Order prohibiting payment of proceeds of sale
- CCP 2331 - Publication of notice of sale
- CCP 2332 - Appraisal
- CCP 2333 - Sale of perishable property
- CCP 2334 - Reading of advertisement and certificates
- CCP 2335 - Superior mortgage or privilege
- CCP 2336 - Minimum price; second offering
- CCP 2337 - Price insufficient to discharge superior privileges; property not sold
- CCP 2338 - Judgment creditor having superior privilege; price insufficient to satisfy inferior mortgage
- CCP 2339 - Judgment debtor and creditor may bid
- CCP 2340 - Payment of debt prior to adjudication
- CCP 2341 - Sale when installment not due
- CCP 2342 - Act of sale by sheriff
- CCP 2343 - Sheriff's return after sale
- CCP 2371 - Effect of adjudication
- CCP 2372 - Sale subject to superior real charge or lease
- CCP 2373 - Distribution of proceeds of sale
- CCP 2374 - Property subject to superior mortgage; payment of price
- CCP 2375 - Purchaser's liability; property subject to inferior mortgages
- CCP 2376 - Release of inferior mortgages, liens, and privileges
- CCP 2377 - Inferior mortgages; payment; reference to proceeds
- CCP 2378 - Enforcement of mortgage or privilege superior to that of seizing creditor
- CCP 2379 - Rights of buyer in case of eviction
- CCP 2380 - Loss of recourse when purchaser fails to give judgment debtor timely notice
- CCP 2381 - Action by seizing creditor who has been compelled to reimburse purchaser
- CCP 2411 - Garnishee; effect of service; financial institutions
- CCP 2412 - Method of service; delay for answering
- CCP 2413 - Effect of garnishee's failure to answer
- CCP 2414 - Notice of answer; traversing
- CCP 2415 - Delivery of property or payment of indebtedness to sheriff
- CCP 2416 - Venue of garnishment proceedings
- CCP 2417 - Garnishment in court other than one which rendered judgment
- CCP 2451 - Examination of judgment debtor and third parties; depositions
- CCP 2452 - Court where motion filed and examination conducted
- CCP 2453 - Motion; order; service
- CCP 2454 - Oath; testimony not used in criminal proceedings
- CCP 2455 - Costs
- CCP 2456 - Contempt
- CCP 2501 - Judgment ordering delivery of possession; writ of possession
- CCP 2502 - Writ of distringas; contempt; damages
- CCP 2503 - Distringas, execution and revocation
- CCP 2504 - Specific performance; court directing performance by third party
- CCP 2541 - Execution of foreign judgments
- CCP 2542 - Grounds for recognition of foreign defamation judgments
- CCP 2591 - Proceedings conducted with rapidity
- CCP 2592 - Use of summary proceedings
- CCP 2593 - Pleadings
- CCP 2594 - Service of process
- CCP 2595 - Trial; decision
- CCP 2596 - Rules of ordinary proceedings applicable; exceptions
- CCP 2631 - Use of executory proceedings
- CCP 2632 - Act importing a confession of judgment
- CCP 2633 - Venue
- CCP 2634 - Petition
- CCP 2635 - Authentic evidence submitted with petition
- CCP 2636 - Authentic evidence
- CCP 2637 - Evidence which need not be authentic
- CCP 2638 - Order for issuance of writ of seizure and sale
- CCP 2639 - Repealed by Acts 2003, No. 1072, §2.
- CCP 2640 - Citation unnecessary; service of demand for payment
- CCP 2641 - Service upon, and seizure and sale prosecuted against, attorney for unrepresented defendant
- CCP 2642 - Assertion of defenses; appeal
- CCP 2643 - Third person claiming mortgage, security interest, or privilege on property seized
- CCP 2644 - Conversion to ordinary proceeding
- CCP 2671 - Proceeding against surviving spouse in community
- CCP 2672 - Proceeding against heirs or legatees
- CCP 2673 - Proceeding against legal representative
- CCP 2674 - Attorney appointed to represent unrepresented defendant
- CCP 2675 - Case falling within application of two or more articles; plaintiff may bring proceeding under any applicable article
- CCP 2701 - Alienation of property to third person disregarded
- CCP 2702 - Rights of third person who has acquired property and assumed indebtedness
- CCP 2703 - Rights of third possessor
- CCP 2721 - Seizure of property; notice
- CCP 2722 - Advertisement of sale
- CCP 2723 - Appraisal of property, unless waived
- CCP 2724 - Articles relating to sales under fieri facias applicable
- CCP 2725 - Seizure and sale of a motor vehicle out-of-state; procedure
- CCP 2751 - Grounds for arresting seizure and sale; damages
- CCP 2752 - Injunction procedure
- CCP 2753 - Security not required in certain cases
- CCP 2754 - Security otherwise required
- CCP 2771 - When deficiency judgment obtainable
- CCP 2772 - Procedure to obtain deficiency judgment
- CCP 2781 - When judgments may be made executory by other courts
- CCP 2782 - Procedure; execution of executory judgment
- CCP 2783 - Injunction to arrest execution of judgment made executory
- CCP 2785 - Definitions
- CCP 2786 - Registration of support orders for modification
- CCP 2787 - Objections to registration of support order for modification
- CCP 2788 - Confirmation of registered support order for modification
- CCP 2789 - Confirmed registered support order for modification; effect
- CCP 2790 - Confirmed registered support order; enforcement
- CCP 2791 - Registration of support orders for enforcement only
- CCP 2792 - Objections to registration of support order for enforcement
- CCP 2793 - Confirmation of registered support order for enforcement
- CCP 2794 - Confirmed registered support order; enforcement
- CCP 2795 - Joinder of actions
- CCP 2811 - Court in which succession opened
- CCP 2812 - Proceedings in different courts; stay; adoption of proceedings by court retaining jurisdiction
- CCP 2821 - Evidence of jurisdiction, death, and relationship
- CCP 2822 - Requirements of affidavit evidence
- CCP 2823 - Additional evidence
- CCP 2824 - No affidavit evidence of factual issues
- CCP 2825 - Costs
- CCP 2826 - Definition of certain terms used in Book VI
- CCP 2851 - Petition for probate
- CCP 2852 - Documents submitted with petition for probate
- CCP 2853 - Purported testament must be filed, though possessor doubts validity
- CCP 2854 - Search for testament
- CCP 2855 - Return to order to search for testament
- CCP 2856 - Probate hearing; probate forthwith if witness present
- CCP 2857 - Proponent must produce witnesses; subpoenas
- CCP 2881 - Ex parte probate if no objection
- CCP 2882 - Proceedings at probate hearing
- CCP 2883 - Olographic testament
- CCP 2884 - Nuncupative testament by private act
- CCP 2885 - Mystic testament
- CCP 2886 - Probate of nuncupative testament by private act; mystic testament, when witnesses dead, absent, or incapacitated
- CCP 2887 - Repealed by Acts 1997, No. 1421, 8, eff. July 1, 1999.
- CCP 2888 - Foreign testament
- CCP 2889 - Depositions of witnesses
- CCP 2890 - Proces verbal of probate
- CCP 2891 - Notarial testament, nuncupative testament by public act, and statutory testament executed without probate
- CCP 2892 - Use of probate testimony in subsequent action
- CCP 2893 - Period within which will must be probated
- CCP 2901 - Contradictory trial required; time to file opposition
- CCP 2902 - Opposition to petition for probate
- CCP 2903 - Proponent bears burden of proof
- CCP 2904 - Admissibility of videotape of execution of testament
- CCP 2931 - Annulment of probated testament by direct action; defendants; summary proceeding
- CCP 2932 - Burden of proof in action to annul
- CCP 2933 - Repealed by Acts 1997, No. 1421, 8, eff. July 1, 1999.
- CCP 2951 - Repealed by Acts 2010, No. 175, §6.
- CCP 2952 - Descriptive list of property, if no inventory
- CCP 2953 - Repealed by Acts 2010, No. 175, §6.
- CCP 2954 - Repealed by Acts 2010, No. 175, §6.
- CCP 2971 - Pleading and service of process
- CCP 2972 - Oppositions
- CCP 2973 - Responsive pleadings to opposition
- CCP 2974 - Appeals
- CCP 3001 - Sending into possession without administration when all heirs are competent and accept
- CCP 3002 - Same; petition for possession
- CCP 3003 - Same; evidence of allegations of petition for possession
- CCP 3004 - Discretionary power to send heirs and surviving spouse into possession
- CCP 3005 - Same; petition for possession; evidence
- CCP 3006 - Same; when one of competent heirs cannot join in petition for possession
- CCP 3007 - Creditor may demand security when heirs sent into possession
- CCP 3008 - Administration in default of security
- CCP 3031 - Sending legatees into possession without administration
- CCP 3032 - Same; petition for possession; evidence
- CCP 3033 - Same; compensation of executor
- CCP 3034 - Creditor may demand security when legatees sent into possession; administration in default of security
- CCP 3035 - Particular legatee may demand security for delivery of legacy; administration in default of security
- CCP 3061 - Judgment rendered and signed immediately
- CCP 3062 - Effect of judgment of possession
- CCP 3081 - Petition for confirmation
- CCP 3082 - Order of confirmation; letters
- CCP 3083 - Appointment of dative testamentary executor
- CCP 3091 - Petition for notice of application for appointment
- CCP 3092 - Form of petition for notice of application for appointment
- CCP 3093 - Notice in compliance with petition
- CCP 3094 - Order on application for appointment
- CCP 3095 - Opposition to application for appointment
- CCP 3096 - Appointment when no opposition; appointment after trial of opposition
- CCP 3097 - Disqualifications
- CCP 3098 - Priority of appointment
- CCP 3111 - Appointment
- CCP 3112 - Security; oath; tenure; rights and duties
- CCP 3113 - Inventory taken or descriptive list filed when appointment made
- CCP 3121 - Attorney appointed as administrator of vacant successions; exceptions
- CCP 3122 - Public administrator as administrator of vacant successions in certain parishes
- CCP 3131 - Notary appointed for inventory in each parish
- CCP 3132 - Public inventory
- CCP 3133 - Proces verbal of inventory
- CCP 3134 - Return of proces verbal of inventory
- CCP 3135 - Proces verbal of inventory prima facie proof; traverse
- CCP 3136 - Descriptive list of property in lieu of inventory
- CCP 3137 - Descriptive list prima facie correct; amendment or traverse; reduction or increase of security
- CCP 3151 - Security of administrator
- CCP 3152 - Security of provisional administrator
- CCP 3153 - Security of testamentary executor
- CCP 3154 - Forced heirs and surviving spouse in community may compel executor to furnish security
- CCP 3154.1 - Repealed by Acts 2004, No. 158, §2.
- CCP 3155 - Creditor may compel executor to furnish security
- CCP 3155.1 - Repealed by Acts 1997, No. 1421, 8, eff. July 1, 1999.
- CCP 3156 - Maximum security of executor
- CCP 3157 - Special mortgage in lieu of bond
- CCP 3158 - Oath of succession representative
- CCP 3159 - Issuance of letters to succession representative
- CCP 3171 - Appointment
- CCP 3172 - Duties
- CCP 3173 - Removal; appointment of successor
- CCP 3174 - Compensation
- CCP 3181 - Revocation of appointment or confirmation; extension of time to qualify
- CCP 3182 - Removal
- CCP 3191 - General duties; appointment of agent
- CCP 3192 - Duties and powers of multiple representatives
- CCP 3193 - Powers of surviving representatives
- CCP 3194 - Contracts between succession representative and succession prohibited; penalties for failure to comply
- CCP 3195 - Contracts between succession representative and succession; exceptions
- CCP 3196 - Procedural rights of succession representative
- CCP 3197 - Duty to close succession
- CCP 3198 - Compromise and modification of obligations
- CCP 3211 - Duty to take possession; enforcement of claims and obligations
- CCP 3221 - Preservation of succession property
- CCP 3222 - Deposit of succession funds; unauthorized withdrawals prohibited; penalty
- CCP 3223 - Investment of succession funds
- CCP 3224 - Continuation of business
- CCP 3224.1 - Continuation of corporation or partnership in which decedent held a majority interest
- CCP 3225 - Continuation of business,; interim order unappealable
- CCP 3226 - Lease of succession property
- CCP 3227 - Execution of contracts
- CCP 3228 - Loans to succession representative for specific purposes; authority to encumber succession property as security therefor
- CCP 3229 - Notice by publication of application for court order; opposition
- CCP 3241 - Presenting claim against succession
- CCP 3242 - Acknowledgment or rejection of claim by representative
- CCP 3243 - Effect of acknowledgment of claim by representative
- CCP 3244 - Effect of inclusion of claim in petition or in tableau of distribution
- CCP 3245 - Submission of formal proof of claim to suspend prescription
- CCP 3246 - Rejection of claim; prerequisite to judicial enforcement
- CCP 3247 - Execution against succession property prohibited
- CCP 3248 - Enforcement of conventional mortgage or pledge
- CCP 3249 - Succession representative as party defendant
- CCP 3261 - Purpose of sale
- CCP 3262 - No priority as between movables and immovables
- CCP 3263 - Terms of sale
- CCP 3264 - Perishable property; crops
- CCP 3265 - Prima facie proof of publication
- CCP 3266 - Issuance of certificates of no opposition
- CCP 3271 - Petition; order
- CCP 3272 - Publication of notice of sale; place of sale
- CCP 3273 - Minimum price; second offering
- CCP 3281 - Petition for private sale
- CCP 3282 - Publication
- CCP 3283 - Who may file opposition
- CCP 3284 - Order; hearing
- CCP 3285 - Bonds and stocks
- CCP 3286 - Court may authorize listing
- CCP 3287 - Household goods
- CCP 3288 - Motor vehicles; sale at appraised value
- CCP 3291 - Court may authorize exchange
- CCP 3292 - Petition for authority to exchange
- CCP 3293 - Copy of petition for authority to be served on heirs and legatees; exception
- CCP 3294 - Publication of notice; opposition; hearing; order
- CCP 3295 - Giving in payment of succession property
- CCP 3296 - Petition
- CCP 3297 - Publication
- CCP 3298 - Hearing; order
- CCP 3301 - Payment of estate debts; court order
- CCP 3302 - Time of payment of estate debts; urgent estate debts
- CCP 3303 - Petition for authority; tableau of distribution
- CCP 3304 - Notice of filing of petition; publication
- CCP 3305 - Petition for notice of filing of tableau of distribution
- CCP 3306 - Notice of filing of tableau of distribution; effect of failure to serve
- CCP 3307 - Homologation; payment
- CCP 3308 - Appeal
- CCP 3321 - Interim allowance for maintenance during administration
- CCP 3331 - Time for filing account
- CCP 3332 - Final account
- CCP 3333 - Contents of account
- CCP 3334 - Failure to file account; penalty
- CCP 3335 - Notice to heirs and residuary legatees
- CCP 3336 - Opposition; homologation
- CCP 3337 - Effect of homologation
- CCP 3338 - Deceased or interdicted succession representative
- CCP 3351 - Amount of compensation; when due
- CCP 3351.1 - Amount of compensation; limitation when serving as attorney, corporate officer, or managing partner
- CCP 3352 - More than one succession representative
- CCP 3353 - Legacy to executor
- CCP 3361 - After homologation of final tableau of distribution
- CCP 3362 - Prior to homologation of final tableau of distribution
- CCP 3371 - After homologation of final tableau of distribution
- CCP 3372 - Prior to homologation of final tableau of distribution
- CCP 3381 - Judgment of possession
- CCP 3391 - Discharge of succession representative
- CCP 3392 - Effect of judgment of discharge
- CCP 3393 - Reopening of succession
- CCP 3394 - Refusal or inability to accept funds; deposit in bank
- CCP 3395 - Disposition of movables not accepted by heir
- CCP 3396 - Definitions
- CCP 3396.1 - Scope
- CCP 3396.2 - Provision for independent administration by testator
- CCP 3396.3 - Designation of executor but failure to provide for independent administration by testator
- CCP 3396.4 - Failure to designate an executor
- CCP 3396.5 - Independent administration when decedent dies intestate
- CCP 3396.6 - Independent administration when estate is part testate, part intestate
- CCP 3396.7 - Trusteeships
- CCP 3396.8 - Usufruct
- CCP 3396.9 - Interdict or unemancipated minor
- CCP 3396.10 - Survivorship
- CCP 3396.11 - Possibility of renunciation
- CCP 3396.12 - Death of successor
- CCP 3396.13 - Testamentary prohibition of independent administration
- CCP 3396.14 - Security of independent administrator
- CCP 3396.15 - Rights, powers, and duties; performance without court authority
- CCP 3396.16 - Enforcement of claims against estate
- CCP 3396.17 - Accounting
- CCP 3396.18 - Inventory or sworn descriptive list
- CCP 3396.19 - Final account
- CCP 3396.20 - Removal of succession representative and termination of independent administration
- CCP 3401 - Jurisdiction; procedure
- CCP 3402 - Foreign representative; qualification
- CCP 3403 - Capacity to sue
- CCP 3404 - Priority in appointment
- CCP 3405 - Testament probated outside Louisiana
- CCP 3421 - Small successions defined
- CCP 3422 - Court costs; compensation
- CCP 3422.1 - Small succession immovable property damaged by disaster or catastrophe
- CCP 3431 - Small successions; judicial opening unnecessary
- CCP 3432 - Affidavit for small succession; contents
- CCP 3432.1 - Affidavit for small succession for a person domiciled outside of Louisiana who died testate; contents
- CCP 3433 - Repealed by Acts 2009, No. 81 , §2, eff. June 18, 2009.
- CCP 3434 - Endorsed copy of affidavit authority for delivery of property
- CCP 3441 - Acceptance without administration; procedure
- CCP 3442 - Administration of successions; procedure
- CCP 3443 - Sale of succession property; publication of notice of sale
- CCP 3461 - Venue; procedure
- CCP 3462 - Partition of succession property
- CCP 3501 - Petition; affidavit; security
- CCP 3502 - Issuance of writ before petition filed
- CCP 3503 - Garnishment under writs of attachment or of sequestration
- CCP 3504 - Return of sheriff; inventory
- CCP 3505 - Reduction of excessive seizure
- CCP 3506 - Dissolution of writ; damages
- CCP 3507 - Release of property by defendant; security
- CCP 3507.1 - Release of property by plaintiff; security
- CCP 3508 - Amount of security for release of attached or sequestered property
- CCP 3509 - Release of property by third person
- CCP 3510 - Necessity for judgment and execution
- CCP 3511 - Attachment and sequestration; privilege
- CCP 3512 - Release of plaintiff's security
- CCP 3513 - Sale of perishable property
- CCP 3514 - Release not to affect right to damages
- CCP 3541 - Grounds for attachment
- CCP 3542 - Actions in which attachment can issue
- CCP 3543 - Issuance of a writ of attachment before debt due
- CCP 3544 - Plaintiff's security
- CCP 3545 - Nonresident attachment; venue
- CCP 3571 - Grounds for sequestration
- CCP 3572 - Sequestration before rent due
- CCP 3573 - Sequestration by court on its own motion
- CCP 3574 - Plaintiff's security
- CCP 3575 - Lessor's privilege
- CCP 3576 - Release of property under sequestration
- CCP 3601 - Injunction, grounds for issuance; preliminary injunction; temporary restraining order
- CCP 3602 - Preliminary injunction; notice; hearing
- CCP 3603 - Temporary restraining order; affidavit of irreparable injury and notification efforts
- CCP 3603.1 - Governing provisions for issuance of protective orders; grounds; notice; court-appointed counsel
- CCP 3604 - Form, contents, and duration of restraining order
- CCP 3605 - Content and scope of injunction or restraining order
- CCP 3606 - Temporary restraining order; hearing on preliminary injunction
- CCP 3607 - Dissolution or modification of temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction
- CCP 3607.1 - Registry of temporary restraining order, preliminary injunction or permanent injunction
- CCP 3608 - Damages for wrongful issuance of temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction
- CCP 3609 - Proof at hearings; affidavits
- CCP 3610 - Security for temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction
- CCP 3611 - Penalty for disobedience; damages
- CCP 3612 - Appeals
- CCP 3613 - Jurisdiction not limited
- CCP 3651 - Petitory action
- CCP 3652 - Same; parties; venue
- CCP 3653 - Same; proof of title; immovable
- CCP 3654 - Proof of title in action for declaratory judgment, concursus, expropriation, or similar proceeding
- CCP 3655 - Possessory action
- CCP 3656 - Same; parties; venue
- CCP 3657 - Same; cumulation with petitory action prohibited; conversion into or separate petitory action by defendant
- CCP 3658 - Same; requisites
- CCP 3659 - Same; disturbance in fact and in law defined
- CCP 3660 - Same; possession
- CCP 3661 - Same; title not at issue; limited admissibility of evidence of title
- CCP 3662 - Same; relief which may be granted successful plaintiff in judgment; appeal
- CCP 3663 - Sequestration; injunctive relief
- CCP 3664 - Mineral rights asserted, protected and defended as other immovables
- CCP 3665 - When mineral right owner may assert possessory action
- CCP 3666 - Loss of right to bring possessory action by owner of mineral right
- CCP 3667 - When proof of nonuse required in possessory action against owner of mineral right
- CCP 3668 - When proof of nonuse not required in possessory action against claimant of mineral right
- CCP 3669 - Possessory action unavailable between owner of mineral servitude and owner of dependent mineral royalty
- CCP 3670 - Real actions against mineral lessee unavailable to mineral lessor or possessor bound by lease
- CCP 3671 - Real actions involving mineral rights subject to other provisions governing real actions generally
- CCP 3691 - Boundary action
- CCP 3692 - Appointment of surveyor by court; duties of surveyor
- CCP 3693 - Evidence; judgment
- CCP 3721 - Methods of enforcing mortgage
- CCP 3722 - Enforcement by ordinary proceeding
- CCP 3723 - Enforcement by executory proceeding
- CCP 3741 - Right of enforcement
- CCP 3742 - Notice of seizure
- CCP 3743 - Rights of third possessor
- CCP 3751 - Notice to be recorded to affect third persons
- CCP 3752 - Requirements of notice; recordation
- CCP 3753 - Cancellation of notice of pendency
- CCP 3781 - Petition; summary trial; issuance of writs
- CCP 3782 - Return date
- CCP 3783 - Answer
- CCP 3784 - Hearing
- CCP 3785 - Disobedience of writ or judgment; contempt
- CCP 3821 - Definition
- CCP 3822 - Venue
- CCP 3823 - Persons authorized to make service; proof of service
- CCP 3824 - Method of service
- CCP 3825 - Answer; production of person in custody
- CCP 3826 - Transfer of custody; answer
- CCP 3827 - Inability to produce person in custody
- CCP 3828 - Custody pendente lite
- CCP 3829 - Notice of hearing
- CCP 3830 - Judgment
- CCP 3831 - Appeal not to suspend execution of judgment; delay
- CCP 3861 - Definition
- CCP 3862 - Mandamus; issuance of
- CCP 3863 - Person against whom writ directed
- CCP 3864 - Mandamus against corporation or corporate officer; limited liability company or member or manager
- CCP 3865 - Alternative writ
- CCP 3866 - Judgment
- CCP 3901 - Definition
- CCP 3902 - Judgment
- CCP 3941 - Court where action brought; nullity of judgment of court of improper venue
- CCP 3942 - Appeal from judgment granting or refusing annulment or divorce
- CCP 3943 - Appeal from judgment awarding custody, visitation, or support
- CCP 3944 - Injunctive relief in divorce actions; bond not required in certain cases
- CCP 3945 - Incidental order of temporary child custody; injunctive relief; exceptions
- CCP 3946 - Execution of support and claims for contributions awards in arrears
- CCP 3947 - Name confirmation
- CCP 3951 - Petition for divorce
- CCP 3952 - Rule to show cause and affidavit
- CCP 3953 - Nullity of judgment
- CCP 3954 - Abandonment of action
- CCP 3955 - Service of petition
- CCP 3956 - Evidence of facts in divorce action
- CCP 3957 - Waiver of service of petition and rule to show cause and accompanying notices
- CCP 3958 - Voluntary dismissal
- CCP 3991 - Petition for judicial emancipation
- CCP 3992 - Petition requirements
- CCP 3993 - Venue for judicial emancipation
- CCP 3994 - Emancipation hearing
- CCP 3995 - Judgment of limited emancipation
- CCP 3996 - Appeal
- CCP 3997 - Modification or termination of emancipation
- CCP 3998 - Recordation
- CCP 4031 - Minor domiciled in the state
- CCP 4032 - Minor not domiciled in the state
- CCP 4033 - Petitions filed in two or more courts; stay of proceedings in second and subsequent courts; adoption of proceedings by first court
- CCP 4034 - Proceedings subsequent to appointment of tutor
- CCP 4061 - Natural tutor; general obligations
- CCP 4061.1 - Natural tutor; action for damages on behalf of child
- CCP 4062 - Tutorship by will
- CCP 4063 - Legal tutor
- CCP 4064 - Dative tutor
- CCP 4065 - Legal or dative tutor; petition for appointment; publication of notice
- CCP 4066 - Opposition to application of legal or dative tutor
- CCP 4067 - Appointment of legal or dative tutor
- CCP 4068 - Appeal from judgment confirming, appointing, or removing tutor or undertutor; effect
- CCP 4069 - Separate tutor of property
- CCP 4070 - Provisional tutor
- CCP 4071 - Security, oath, and tenure of provisional tutor
- CCP 4072 - Inventory or detailed descriptive list on appointment of provisional tutor
- CCP 4073 - Functions, duties, and authority of provisional tutor
- CCP 4101 - Inventory and appraisement or descriptive list
- CCP 4102 - Procedure for inventory; proces verbal; return
- CCP 4131 - Amount
- CCP 4132 - Nature of security
- CCP 4133 - Special mortgage instead of bond
- CCP 4134 - Natural tutor; bond; recordation of certificate of inventory or detailed descriptive list
- CCP 4135 - Security instead of legal mortgage
- CCP 4136 - Substitution of one kind of security for another
- CCP 4137 - Subordination of legal mortgage to conventional mortgage
- CCP 4171 - Oath
- CCP 4172 - Issuance of letters
- CCP 4201 - Appointment; oath
- CCP 4202 - General duties of undertutor
- CCP 4203 - Compelling tutor to account
- CCP 4204 - Security of tutor, undertutor's duty regarding sufficiency
- CCP 4205 - Vacancy in tutorship, duty of undertutor
- CCP 4206 - Termination of duties
- CCP 4231 - Disqualification of tutor
- CCP 4232 - Revocation of appointment; extension of time to qualify
- CCP 4233 - Resignation of tutor
- CCP 4234 - Removal of tutor
- CCP 4235 - Authority and liability of tutor after resignation or removal
- CCP 4236 - Undertutor, grounds for disqualification, revocation, or removal
- CCP 4237 - Appointment of successor tutor or undertutor
- CCP 4238 - Heirs of tutor; responsibility
- CCP 4261 - Care of person of minor; expenses
- CCP 4262 - Administration of minor's property
- CCP 4263 - Contracts between tutor and minor
- CCP 4264 - Tutor's administration in his own name; procedural rights
- CCP 4265 - Compromise and modification of obligations
- CCP 4266 - Continuation of business
- CCP 4267 - Loans to tutor for specific purposes; authority to mortgage and pledge minor's property
- CCP 4268 - Lease of minor's property; mineral contracts
- CCP 4269 - Investment and management of minor's property
- CCP 4269.1 - Placement of minor's property in trust
- CCP 4270 - Procedure for investing, reinvesting, or withdrawing funds; checking account on behalf of minor
- CCP 4271 - Court approval of action affecting minor's interest
- CCP 4272 - Court approval of payments to minor
- CCP 4273 - Appointment of agent
- CCP 4274 - Compensation of tutor
- CCP 4275 - Donations to or by minor
- CCP 4301 - Purpose of sale or exchange
- CCP 4302 - Terms of sale
- CCP 4303 - Perishable property; crops
- CCP 4304 - Additional bond prior to sale of immovables
- CCP 4321 - Petition; order
- CCP 4322 - Publication; place of sale
- CCP 4323 - Minimum price; subsequent offering
- CCP 4341 - Petition
- CCP 4342 - Bonds and stocks
- CCP 4361 - Adjudication of minor's interest to parent co-owner
- CCP 4362 - Recordation of judgment; mortgage in favor of minor
- CCP 4363 - Security instead of mortgage
- CCP 4371 - Petition for authority to exchange
- CCP 4391 - Duty to account; annual accounts
- CCP 4392 - Final account
- CCP 4393 - Contents of account
- CCP 4394 - Service of account
- CCP 4395 - Opposition; homologation
- CCP 4396 - Effect of homologation
- CCP 4397 - Deceased or interdicted tutor
- CCP 4398 - Cost of accounting
- CCP 4431 - Foreign tutor; authority and powers
- CCP 4432 - Possession or removal of property from state
- CCP 4433 - Foreign tutor qualifying in Louisiana; authority
- CCP 4461 - Small tutorship defined
- CCP 4462 - Inventory dispensed with
- CCP 4463 - Tutor without bond
- CCP 4464 - Court costs
- CCP 4501 - Father or mother as administrator of minor's property
- CCP 4502 - Repealed
- CCP 4521 - Payments to minor
- CCP 4522 - Repealed
- CCP 4541 - Petition for interdiction
- CCP 4542 - Venue
- CCP 4543 - Service upon defendant and notice to interested persons
- CCP 4544 - Appointment of attorney
- CCP 4545 - Appointment of examiner
- CCP 4546 - Fixing of hearings or trial
- CCP 4547 - Hearing
- CCP 4548 - Burden of proof
- CCP 4549 - Temporary and preliminary interdiction; attorney
- CCP 4550 - Costs and attorney fees
- CCP 4551 - Judgment
- CCP 4552 - Recordation of notice of suit and judgment
- CCP 4553 - Post-judgment proceedings
- CCP 4554 - Modification or termination of interdiction
- CCP 4555 - Appeal
- CCP 4556 - Ancillary interdiction procedure
- CCP 4561 - Appointment of curator
- CCP 4562 - Qualification of curator
- CCP 4563 - Inventory and security
- CCP 4564 - Letters of curatorship
- CCP 4565 - Undercurators
- CCP 4566 - Management of affairs of the interdict
- CCP 4567 - Expenses of interdict and legal dependents
- CCP 4568 - Removal of curator or undercurator
- CCP 4569 - Post-judgment monitoring and reporting
- CCP 4570 - Cause of action for visitation with the interdict
- CCP 4601 - Methods of partition
- CCP 4602 - Judicial partition
- CCP 4603 - Same; procedure; venue
- CCP 4604 - Inventory
- CCP 4605 - Preference; appointment of notary; discretion of court
- CCP 4606 - Partition in kind
- CCP 4607 - Partition by licitation
- CCP 4608 - Controversy before notary effecting partition
- CCP 4609 - Homologation of partition
- CCP 4610 - Opposition to homologation
- CCP 4611 - Supplementary partition when rule to reject or opposition to homologation sustained
- CCP 4612 - Finality of partition when rule to reject or opposition unfounded
- CCP 4613 - Attorney's fee in uncontested proceedings
- CCP 4614 - Purchase by co-owner of property or interest sold
- CCP 4621 - Partition by licitation
- CCP 4622 - Petition
- CCP 4623 - Order; service of citation; contradictory proceedings
- CCP 4624 - Publication of notice
- CCP 4625 - Trial; judgment ordering sale
- CCP 4626 - Judgment ordering reimbursement or payment of amounts due co-owner out of proceeds of sale
- CCP 4627 - Effect of judgment and sale
- CCP 4628 - Deposit of absentee's share into registry of court
- CCP 4629 - Articles applicable to partition by licitation
- CCP 4630 - Partition in kind when defendant appears and prays therefor
- CCP 4641 - Sale of interest of minor or interdict to effect partition
- CCP 4642 - Partition in kind, dispensing with drawing of lots when authorized by court
- CCP 4643 - Appointment of attorney for incompetent when interests conflict
- CCP 4651 - Definition
- CCP 4652 - Claimants who may be impleaded
- CCP 4653 - Parish where proceeding brought
- CCP 4654 - Petition
- CCP 4655 - Service of process; delay for answer
- CCP 4656 - Each defendant both plaintiff and defendant; no responsive pleadings to answer; no default required
- CCP 4657 - Failure of defendant to answer timely
- CCP 4657.1 - Notice to attorney general when the state is a defendant
- CCP 4658 - Deposit of money into registry of court
- CCP 4659 - Costs
- CCP 4660 - Injunctive relief
- CCP 4661 - Applicability of articles to proceedings under certain special statutes
- CCP 4662 - Rules of ordinary proceeding applicable
- CCP 4701 - Termination of lease; notice to vacate; waiver of notice
- CCP 4702 - Notice to occupant other than tenant to vacate
- CCP 4703 - Delivery or service when premises abandoned or closed, or whereabouts of tenant or occupant unknown
- CCP 4704 - Definitions
- CCP 4705 - Lessors' rights or real actions not affected
- CCP 4731 - Rule to show cause why possession should not be delivered; abandonment of premises
- CCP 4732 - Trial of rule; judgment of eviction
- CCP 4733 - Warrant for possession if judgment of eviction not complied with
- CCP 4734 - Execution of warrant
- CCP 4735 - Appeal; bond
- CCP 4831 - Applicability of Book VIII
- CCP 4832 - Trial courts of limited jurisdiction
- CCP 4841 - Subject matter jurisdiction
- CCP 4842 - Parish court jurisdiction; amount in dispute; injunctive actions by a political subdivision
- CCP 4843 - City court jurisdiction; amount in dispute; injunctive actions by state or political subdivision
- CCP 4844 - Amount in dispute; eviction proceedings
- CCP 4845 - Amount in dispute; jurisdiction of incidental demands; parish, city, and justice of the peace courts; payment of costs of transfer
- CCP 4846 - Limitations upon jurisdiction; nature of proceedings
- CCP 4847 - Limitations upon jurisdiction
- CCP 4848 - Contempt power
- CCP 4849 - Jurisdiction over the person
- CCP 4850 - Jurisdiction in rem or quasi in rem; executory proceedings
- CCP 4850.1 - City Court of Alexandria; in rem and quasi in rem jurisdiction
- CCP 4850.2 - First City Court and Second City Court of New Orleans; appellate jurisdiction
- CCP 4851 - Venue
- CCP 4852 - Change of venue; city court; forum non conveniens
- CCP 4853 - Repealed by Acts 1986, No. 156, 3.
- CCP 4854 - Repealed by Acts 1986, No. 156, 3.
- CCP 4857 - Traffic Court of New Orleans; appellate jurisdiction
- CCP 4861 - Recusation of judges
- CCP 4862 - Motion to recuse
- CCP 4863 - Determination of recusation; appointment of judge ad hoc
- CCP 4864 - Appointment of judge ad hoc when judge recuses himself
- CCP 4865 - Appointment of judge ad hoc in event of temporary inability of parish or city court judge
- CCP 4866 - Power and authority of judge ad hoc
- CCP 4871 - Jury trial prohibited
- CCP 4872 - Transfer to district court
- CCP 4873 - Transfer to district court; procedure; contest; effect
- CCP 4874 - Withdrawal of demand for jury trial after transfer
- CCP 4875 - Entire suit transferred
- CCP 4901 - Pleadings in parish and city courts
- CCP 4902 - Citation in parish and city courts
- CCP 4903 - Delay for answering in parish and city courts
- CCP 4904 - Final default judgment in parish and city courts
- CCP 4905 - Notice of judgment in parish or city courts
- CCP 4906 - Form of judgment in parish or city courts
- CCP 4907 - New trials; delay in parish or city courts
- CCP 4908 - New trial; procedure in parish or city courts
- CCP 4911 - Jurisdiction in justice of the peace courts; concurrent with district court; amount in dispute
- CCP 4912 - Possession or ownership of movable property; eviction proceedings; justice of the peace courts
- CCP 4913 - Limitations upon jurisdiction; nature of proceedings; justice of the peace courts
- CCP 4914 - Contempt power; justice of the peace courts
- CCP 4915 - Jurisdiction over the person; justice of the peace courts
- CCP 4916 - Venue; justice of the peace courts
- CCP 4917 - Pleadings; justice of the peace courts; district courts with concurrent jurisdiction
- CCP 4918 - Record of the case; subsequent entries; justice of the peace courts; district courts with concurrent jurisdiction
- CCP 4919 - Citation; service of citation; justice of the peace courts; district courts with concurrent jurisdiction
- CCP 4920 - Delay for answering; justice of the peace courts; district courts with concurrent jurisdiction
- CCP 4921 - Final default judgment; justice of the peace courts; district courts with concurrent jurisdiction
- CCP 4921.1 - Demand for trial; abandonment; applicability
- CCP 4921.2 - Duties of the justice of the peace; trial procedure; rules of evidence; depositions
- CCP 4922 - Notice of judgment; justice of the peace courts; district courts with concurrent jurisdiction
- CCP 4923 - Form of judgment; justice of the peace courts; district courts with concurrent jurisdiction
- CCP 4924 - Appeals from justice of the peace courts; district courts with concurrent jurisdiction
- CCP 4925 - Delay for appeal; justice of the peace courts; district courts with concurrent jurisdiction
- CCP 5001 - Appeals from city and parish courts
- CCP 5002 - Delay for appeal
- CCP 5003 - Procedure for appealing
- CCP 5004 - Repealed by Acts 1986, No. 156, 3.
- CCP 5011 - Procedure
- CCP 5051 - Liberal construction of articles
- CCP 5052 - Unambiguous language not to be disregarded
- CCP 5053 - Words and phrases
- CCP 5054 - Clerical and typographical errors disregarded
- CCP 5055 - Number; gender
- CCP 5056 - Conjunctive, disjunctive, or both
- CCP 5057 - Headings, source notes, cross references
- CCP 5058 - References to code articles or statutory sections
- CCP 5059 - Computation of time
- CCP 5091 - Appointment; contradictory proceedings against attorney; improper designation immaterial
- CCP 5091.1 - Appointment of attorney in disavowal actions
- CCP 5091.2 - Curator ad hoc in adoption cases
- CCP 5092 - Qualifications; suggestions for appointment not permitted
- CCP 5093 - Oath not required; waiver of citation and acceptance of service
- CCP 5094 - Duties; notice to nonresident or absentee
- CCP 5095 - Same; defense of action
- CCP 5096 - Compensation
- CCP 5097 - Attorney appointed to represent claimant in worker's compensation case
- CCP 5098 - Validity of proceeding not affected by failure of attorney to perform duties; punishment of attorney
- CCP 5121 - Bond payable to clerk; cash bonds by plaintiffs authorized; person in interest may sue
- CCP 5121.1 - Bond secured by immovable property
- CCP 5122 - Oath of surety and principal on bond
- CCP 5123 - Testing sufficiency and validity of bond
- CCP 5124 - Furnishing new or supplemental bond to correct defects of original
- CCP 5125 - Insufficiency or invalidity of bond; effect on orders or judgments; appeal from order for supplemental bond
- CCP 5126 - Insufficiency or invalidity of new or supplemental bond
- CCP 5127 - Release bond
- CCP 5151 - Discussion defined
- CCP 5152 - Surety's right to plead
- CCP 5153 - Transferee in revocatory action; right to plead discussion
- CCP 5154 - Third possessor's right to plead
- CCP 5155 - Pleading discussion
- CCP 5156 - Effect of discussion
- CCP 5181 - Privilege of litigating without prior payment of costs
- CCP 5182 - Restrictions on privilege
- CCP 5183 - Affidavits of poverty; documentation; order
- CCP 5184 - Traverse of affidavits of poverty
- CCP 5185 - Rights of party permitted to litigate without payment of costs
- CCP 5186 - Account and payment of costs
- CCP 5187 - Compromise; dismissal of proceedings prior to judgment
- CCP 5188 - Unsuccessful party condemned to pay costs
- CCP 5251 - Words and terms defined
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