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2020 Louisiana Laws
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Art. 655. Natural drainage.
Universal Citation: LA Civ Code art. 655 (2020)
An estate situated below is the servient estate and is bound to receive the surface waters that flow naturally from a dominant estate situated above unless an act of man has created the flow.
Acts 1977, No. 514, §1; Acts 2017, No. 105, §1, eff. June 12, 2017.
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