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PRELIMINARY TITLE
CHAPTER 1 - GENERAL PRINCIPLES
- Art. 1. Sources of law
- Art. 2. Legislation
- Art. 3. Custom
- Art. 4. Absence of legislation or custom
- Art. 5. Ignorance of law
- Art. 6. Retroactivity of laws
- Art. 7. Laws for the preservation of the public interest
- Art. 8. Repeal of laws
CHAPTER 2 - INTERPRETATION OF LAWS
- Art. 9. Clear and unambiguous law
- Art. 10. Language susceptible of different meanings
- Art. 11. Meaning of words
- Art. 12. Ambiguous words
- Art. 13. Laws on the same subject matter
CHAPTER 3. CONFLICT OF LAWS
BOOK I.
OF PERSONS
TITLE I. NATURAL AND JURIDICAL PERSONS
- Art. 24. Kinds of persons
- Art. 25. Commencement and end of natural personality
- Art. 26. Art. 26. Unborn child
- Art. 27. General legal capacity
- Art. 28. Capacity to make juridical acts
- Art. 29. Age of majority
- Art. 30. Presumption of death
- Art. 31. Existence of a person at time of accrual of a right
TITLE II -- DOMICILE
- Art. 38. Domicile
- Art. 39. Domicile and residence
- Art. 40. Domicile of spouses
- Art. 41. Domicile of unemancipated minor.
- Art. 42. Domicile of interdict
- Art. 43. Domicile of person under continued or permanent tutorship
- Art. 44. Change of domicile
- Art. 45. Proof of intent to change domicile
- Art. 46. Person holding temporary position
TITLE III. ABSENT PERSONS
CHAPTER 1. CURATORSHIP OF THE PROPERTY OF
ABSENT PERSONS
- Art. 47. Curator of an absent person's property
- Art. 48. Powers, rights, and duties of curator
- Art. 49. Legal capacity of absent person
- Art. 50. Termination of curatorship of right
- Art. 51. Termination by judgment of declaration of death
- Art. 52. Effects of termination of curatorship
- Art. 53. Validity of acts of curator after termination of the curatorship
CHAPTER 2. DECLARATION OF DEATH
- Art. 54. Absent person; declaration of death
- Art. 55. Declaration of death; effect
- Art. 56. New evidence as to time of death
- Art. 57. Reappearance of absent person; recovery of his property
- Art. 58. Succession rights of person presumed dead or declared dead
- Art. 59. Reappearance of absent person; recovery of his inheritance
- Art. 60. Arts. 60 to 85 repealed by Acts 1990, No. 989, 1, eff. January 1, 1991.
TITLE IV - HUSBAND AND WIFE
CHAPTER 1 - MARRIAGE: GENERAL PRINCIPLES
- Art. 86. Marriage; definition
- Art. 87. Contract of marriage; requirements
- Art. 88. Impediment of existing marriage
NOTE: This provision of law was included in the Unconstitutional Statutes Biennial Report to the Legislature, dated March 14, 2016.
- Art. 89. Impediment of same sex
- Art. 90. Impediments of relationship
- Art. 90.1. Impediment of age
- Art. 91. Marriage ceremony required
- Art. 92. Marriage by procuration prohibited
- Art. 93. Vices of consent
- Art. 3520. Marriage
- Art. 3521. Divorce or separation
- Art. 3522. Effects and incidents of marriage and of divorce
CHAPTER 2 - NULLITY OF MARRIAGE
- Art. 94. Absolutely null marriage
- Art. 95. Relatively null marriage; confirmation
- Art. 96. Civil effects of absolutely null marriage; putative marriage
- Art. 97. Civil effects of relatively null marriage
CHAPTER 3. INCIDENTS AND EFFECTS OF MARRIAGE
- Art. 98. Mutual duties of married persons
- Art. 99. Family authority
- Art. 100. Surname of married persons
CHAPTER 4. TERMINATION OF MARRIAGE
TITLE V - DIVORCE
CHAPTER 1. THE DIVORCE ACTION
- Art. 102. Judgment of divorce; living separate and apart prior to rule
- Art. 103. Judgment of divorce; other grounds
- Art. 103.1. Judgment of divorce; time periods
- Art. 104. Reconciliation
- Art. 105. Determination of incidental matters
CHAPTER 2. PROVISIONAL AND INCIDENTAL
PROCEEDINGS
SECTION 1. SPOUSAL SUPPORT
- Art. 111. Spousal support; authority of court
- Art. 112. Determination of final periodic support
- Art. 113. Interim spousal support
- Art. 114. Modification or termination of award of support
- Art. 115. Extinguishment of support obligation
- Art. 116. Modification of spousal support obligation
- Art. 117. Peremptive period for obligation
- Art. 118. Repealed
SECTION 2. CLAIM FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO
EDUCATION OR TRAINING
- Art. 121. Claim for contributions to education or training; authority of court
- Art. 122. Nature of action
- Art. 123. Form of award; effect of remarriage or death
- Art. 124. Prescription of spousal claim for contributions
SECTION 3. CHILD CUSTODY
- Art. 131. Court to determine custody
- Art. 132. Award of custody to parents
- Art. 133. Award of custody to person other than a parent; order of preference
- Art. 134. Factors in determining child's best interest
- Art. 135. Closed custody hearing
- Art. 136. Award of visitation rights
- Art. 136.1. Award of visitation rights
- Art. 137. Denial of visitation; sex offense; death of a parent
SECTION 4. CHILD SUPPORT
- Art. 141. Child support; authority of court
- Art. 142. Modification or termination of child support award
- Art. 149. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1009, 9, eff. Jan. 1, 1991.
- Art. 150. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1009, 9, eff. Jan. 1, 1991.
SECTION 5. PROVISIONAL AND INCIDENTAL PROCEEDINGS
IN ACTIONS OF NULLITY
- Art. 151. Proceeding for declaration of nullity of a marriage; interim incidental relief
- Art. 152. Proceeding for declaration of nullity of a marriage; final incidental relief
- Art. 153. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1009, 9, eff. Jan. 1, 1991.
- Art. 154. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1009, 9, eff. Jan. 1, 1991.
- Art. 155. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1009, 9, eff. Jan. 1, 1991.
- Art. 156. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1009, 9, eff. Jan. 1, 1991.
CHAPTER 3. EFFECTS OF DIVORCE
- Art. 159. Effect of divorce on community property regime
- Art. 160. Blank]
- Art. 161. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1008, 6, eff. Jan. 1, 1991.
TITLE VI. OF MASTER AND SERVANT
TITLE VII. PARENT AND CHILD
CHAPTER 1. FILIATION
CHAPTER 2. FILIATION BY PROOF OF MATERNITY OR PATERNITY
SECTION 1. PROOF OF MATERNITY
SECTION 2. PROOF OF PATERNITY
SUBSECTION A. THE PRESUMPTION OF PATERNITY OF HUSBAND; DISAVOWAL OF PATERNITY; CONTESTATION; ESTABLISHMENT OF PATERNITY
- Art. 185. Presumption of paternity of husband
- Art. 186. Presumption if child is born after divorce or after death of husband; effect of disavowal
- Art. 187. Disavowal action; proof
- Art. 188. Disavowal precluded in case of assisted conception
- Art. 189. Time limit for disavowal by the husband
- Art. 190. Time limit for disavowal by heir or legatee
- Art. 190.1. Three-party acknowledgment; alternative to disavowal; time period
- Art. 191. Contestation and establishment of paternity by mother
- Art. 192. Contestation action; proof
- Art. 193. Contestation and establishment of paternity; time period
- Art. 194. Judgment in contestation action
SUBSECTION B. PRESUMPTION OF PATERNITY BY SUBSEQUENT
MARRIAGE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENT
SUBSECTION C. OTHER METHODS OF ESTABLISHING PATERNITY
- Art. 196. Formal acknowledgment; presumption
- Art. 197. Child's action to establish paternity; proof; time period
- Art. 198. Father's action to establish paternity; time period
CHAPTER 3. FILIATION BY ADOPTION
SECTION 1. EFFECT OF ADOPTION
SECTION 2. ADOPTION OF MINORS
- Art. 200. Adoption of minors
- Art. 201. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 192, §1, eff. June 29, 2005.
- Art. 202. Repealed by Acts 1979, No. 607, 4.
- Art. 203. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 192, §1, eff. June 29, 2005.
- Art. 204. Repealed by Acts 1979, No. 607, 4.
- Art. 205. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 192, §1, eff. June 29, 2005.
- Art. 206. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 192, §1, eff. June 29, 2005.
- Art. 207. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 192, §1, eff. June 29, 2005.
- Art. 208. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 192, §1, eff. June 29, 2005.
- Art. 209. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 192, §1, eff. June 29, 2005.
- Art. 210. Repealed by Acts 1980, No. 549, 2.
- Art. 211. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 192, §1, eff. June 29, 2005.
SECTION 3. ADOPTION OF ADULTS
- Art. 212. Adult adoption requirements
- Art. 213. Adult adoption; form
- Art. 214. Adult adoption; recordation requirement
CHAPTER 5--OF PARENTAL AUTHORITY
SECTION 1--OF THE DUTIES OF PARENTS TOWARDS THEIR
LEGITIMATE CHILDREN, AND OF THE DUTIES OF LEGITIMATE
CHILDREN TOWARDS THEIR PARENTS
- Art. 215. Repealed
- Art. 216. Repealed
- Art. 217. Repealed
- Art. 218. Repealed
- Art. 219. Repealed
- Art. 220. Repealed
CHAPTER 5. PARENTAL AUTHORITY OF MARRIED PERSONS
SECTION 1. GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF PARENTAL AUTHORITY
- Art. 221. Authority of married parents
- Art. 222. Representation of minor
- Art. 223. Rights and obligations of parental authority
SECTION 2. OBLIGATIONS OF PARENTS
- Art. 224. Parental obligation of support and education
- Art. 225. Parental liability for child's offenses and quasi-offenses
- Art. 226. Parental obligation of direction
SECTION 3. OBLIGATIONS OF CHILDREN
SECTION 4. AUTHORITY OVER THE PROPERTY OF THE CHILD
- Art. 229. Administration of the property of the child
- Art. 230. Alienation, encumbrance, or lease of the property of the child; expenditure of fruits
- Art. 231. Parents' obligation to deliver and account
SECTION 5. PERSON HAVING PARENTAL AUTHORITY AND
OF ITS DELEGATION AND SUSPENSION
- Art. 232. Parental authority
- Art. 233. Delegation of parental authority
- Art. 234. Parental authority; custody award
SECTION 6. TERMINATION OF PARENTAL AUTHORITY
CHAPTER 6. OBLIGATIONS OF CHILDREN AND PARENTS
AND OTHER ASCENDANTS
- Art. 236. Filial honor and respect
- Art. 237. Obligation of providing the basic necessities of life; ascendants and descendants; exceptions
- Art. 238. Amount of support
- Art. 239. Modification or termination of support
- Art. 240. Repealed
- Art. 241. Repealed
- Art. 242. Repealed
- Art. 243. Repealed
- Art. 244. Repealed
- Art. 245. Repealed
TITLE VIII--OF MINORS, OF THEIR TUTORSHIP
AND EMANCIPATION
CHAPTER 1--OF TUTORSHIP
SECTION 1--GENERAL DISPOSITIONS
- Art. 246. Occasion for tutorship.
- Art. 247. Kinds of tutorships.
- Art. 248. Modes of establishment of tutorships.
- Art. 249. Accountability of tutor.
SECTION 2--OF TUTORSHIP BY NATURE
- Art. 250. Persons entitled to tutorship
- Art. 251. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
- Art. 252. Unborn and posthumous children.
- Art. 253. Repealed by Acts 1974, No. 163, 2.
- Art. 254. Arts. 254, 255 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2
- Art. 256. Children born outside of marriage
SECTION 3--OF THE TUTORSHIP BY WILL
- Art. 257. Surviving parent's right of appointment.
- Art. 258. Right of appointment where parents are divorced or separated
- Art. 259. Option of acceptance of tutorship.
- Art. 260. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
- Art. 261. Child born outside of marriage
- Art. 262. Appointment of several tutors; order of priority.
SECTION 4--OF THE TUTORSHIP BY THE EFFECT OF THE LAW
SECTION 5--OF DATIVE TUTORSHIP
SECTION 6--OF THE UNDERTUTOR
- Art. 273. Necessity for appointment.
- Art. 278. Liability concerning minor's legal mortgage.
- Art. 279. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
- Art. 280. Termination of undertutorship.
SECTION 7. OF FAMILY MEETINGS
SECTION 8--OF THE CAUSES WHICH DISPENSE OR EXCUSE
FROM THE TUTORSHIP
- Art. 292. Excuse by reason of office or function.
- Art. 293. Waiver of excuse by subsequent acceptance of tutorship.
- Art. 294. Subsequently acquired excuse.
- Art. 295. Excuse for remote relationship.
- Art. 296. Excuse for age.
- Art. 297. Excuse for infirmity.
- Art. 298. Excuse for prior tutorships
- Art. 299. Time to present excuse.
- Art. 300. Provisional administration pending consideration of excuse.
- Art. 301. Parent's unconditional obligation of tutorship.
SECTION 9--OF THE INCAPACITY FOR, THE EXCLUSION FROM,
AND DEPRIVATION OF THE TUTORSHIP
SECTION 10--OF THE APPOINTMENT, RECOGNITION, OR
CONFIRMATION OF TUTORS, OF THE PERSONS WHOSE DUTY
IT IS TO CAUSE TUTORS TO BE APPOINTED AND OF THE
LIABILITY OF SUCH PERSONS
- Art. 307. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
- Art. 308. Duty to apply for appointment.
- Art. 309. Minors exempt from taking application.
- Art. 310. Liability for failure to make application.
- Art. 311. Action for damages; prescription.
- Art. 322. Minor's legal mortgage on tutor's property.
- Art. 333. Sale of mortgaged property by one claimant; inscription of legal mortgage of remaining minors.
SECTION 11--OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE TUTOR
- Art. 336. Alienation of minor's immovables.
- Art. 337. Repealed by Acts 2001, No. 572, 2.
- Art. 338. Interest.
- Art. 339. Agreements between tutor and minor.
- Art. 340. Prescription of minor's action against tutor.
SECTION 12 - OF CONTINUING TUTORSHIP OF
PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
- Art. 354. Placing under continuing tutorship
- Art. 355. Petition for full or limited continuing tutorship
- Art. 356. Title of proceedings; procedural rules; parents as tutor and undertutor.
- Art. 357. Decree; place of recording; notice
- Art. 358. Full continuing tutorship; authority; privileges and duties of tutor and undertutor
- Art. 358.1. Limited continuing tutorship; authority; privileges and duties of tutor and undertutor
- Art. 358.2. Termination of continuing tutorship
- Art. 359. Restriction on legal capacity.
- Art. 360. Parents' rights of administration.
- Art. 361. Contest of decree restricting legal capacity.
- Art. 362. Persons subject to interdiction
CHAPTER 2. EMANCIPATION
- Art. 365. Emancipation
- Art. 366. Judicial emancipation
- Art. 367. Emancipation by marriage
- Art. 368. Limited emancipation by authentic act
- Art. 369. Emancipation; when effective
- Art. 370. Modification and termination of judicial emancipation
- Art. 371. Modification or termination of limited emancipation by authentic act
TITLE IX. PERSONS UNABLE TO CARE FOR THEIR
PERSONS OR PROPERTY
CHAPTER 1. GROUNDS FOR INTERDICTION
- Art. 389. Full interdiction
- Art. 390. Limited interdiction
- Art. 391. Temporary and preliminary interdiction
CHAPTER 2. GENERAL DUTIES OF CURATORS
AND UNDERCURATORS
CHAPTER 3. EFFECTS OF INTERDICTION
- Art. 394. Pre-interdiction juridical acts
- Art. 395. Capacity to make juridical acts
- Art. 396. Effective date of judgment of interdiction
CHAPTER 4. MODIFICATION AND TERMINATION
OF INTERDICTION
- Art. 397. Modification and termination of interdiction
- Art. 398. Effective date of modification or termination of a judgment of interdiction
CHAPTER 5. RESPONSIBILITY FOR WRONGFUL FILING
OF INTERDICTION PETITION
BOOK II
THINGS AND THE DIFFERENT MODIFICATIONS OF OWNERSHIP
TITLE I--THINGS
CHAPTER 1--DIVISION OF THINGS
SECTION 1--GENERAL PRINCIPLES
- Art. 448. Division of things.
- Art. 449. Common things.
- Art. 450. Public things.
- Art. 451. Seashore.
- Art. 452. Public things and common things subject to public use.
- Art. 453. Private things.
- Art. 454. Freedom of disposition by private persons.
- Art. 455. Private things subject to public use.
- Art. 456. Banks of navigable rivers or streams.
- Art. 457. Roads; public or private.
- Art. 458. Works obstructing the public use.
- Art. 459. Building encroaching on public way.
- Art. 460. Construction of navigation facilities on public places by port commissions or municipalities.
- Art. 461. Corporeals and incorporeals.
SECTION 2--IMMOVABLES
- Art. 462. Tracts of land.
- Art. 463. Component parts of tracts of land.
- Art. 464. Buildings and standing timber as separate immovables.
- Art. 465. Things incorporated into an immovable.
- Art. 466. Component parts of a building or other construction
- Art. 467. Immovables by declaration.
- Art. 468. Deimmobilization.
- Art. 469. Transfer or encumbrance of immovable.
- Art. 470. Incorporeal immovables.
SECTION 3--MOVABLES
- Art. 471. Corporeal movables.
- Art. 472. Building materials.
- Art. 473. Incorporeal movables.
- Art. 474. Movables by anticipation.
- Art. 475. Things not immovable.
CHAPTER 2--RIGHTS IN THINGS
TITLE II--OWNERSHIP
CHAPTER 1. GENERAL PRINCIPLES
- Art. 477. Ownership; content
- Art. 478. Resolutory condition; real right in favor of other person.
- Art. 479. Necessity of a person.
- Art. 480. Co-ownership.
- Art. 481. Ownership and possession distinguished.
- Art. 482. Accession.
CHAPTER 2--RIGHT OF ACCESSION
SECTION 1--OWNERSHIP OF FRUITS
- Art. 483. Ownership of fruits by accession.
- Art. 484. Young of animals.
- Art. 485. Fruits produced by a third person; reimbursement.
- Art. 486. Possessor's right to fruits.
- Art. 487. Possessor in good faith; definition.
- Art. 488. Products; reimbursement of expenses.
- Art. 489. Apportionment of fruits.
SECTION 2--ACCESSION IN RELATION TO IMMOVABLES
- Art. 490. Accession above and below the surface.
- Art. 491. Buildings, other constructions, standing timber, and crops.
- Art. 492. Separate ownership of part of a building.
- Art. 493. Ownership of improvements
- Art. 493.1. Ownership of component parts
- Art. 493.2. Loss of ownership by accession; claims of former owner
- Art. 494. Constructions by landowner with materials of another.
- Art. 495. Things incorporated in, or attached to, an immovable with the consent of the owner of the immovable.
- Art. 496. Constructions by possessor in good faith.
- Art. 497. Constructions by bad faith possessor.
- Art. 498. Claims against third persons
- Art. 499. Alluvion and dereliction.
- Art. 500. Shore of the sea or of a lake.
- Art. 501. Division of alluvion.
- Art. 502. Sudden action of waters.
- Art. 503. Island formed by river opening a new channel.
- Art. 504. Ownership of abandoned bed when river changes course.
- Art. 505. Islands and sandbars in navigable rivers.
- Art. 506. Ownership of beds of nonnavigable rivers or streams.
SECTION 3--ACCESSION IN RELATION TO MOVABLES
- Art. 507. Accession as between movables.
- Art. 508. Things principal and accessory.
- Art. 509. Value or bulk as a basis to determine principal thing.
- Art. 510. Union of a principal and an accessory thing.
- Art. 511. Ownership of new thing made with materials of another.
- Art. 512. Effect of bad faith.
- Art. 513. Use of materials of two owners; separation or co-ownership.
- Art. 514. Mixture of materials.
- Art. 515. Recovery of materials or value in lieu of ownership.
- Art. 516. Liability for unauthorized use of a movable.
CHAPTER 3--TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP BY AGREEMENT
- Art. 517. Voluntary transfer of ownership of an immovable
- Art. 518. Voluntary transfer of the ownership of a movable
- Art. 519. Transfer of action for recovery of movable.
- Art. 520. Transfer of ownership by merchant
- Art. 521. Lost or stolen thing.
- Art. 522. Transfer of ownership by owner under annullable title.
- Art. 523. Good faith; definition.
- Art. 524. Recovery of lost or stolen things.
- Art. 525. Registered movables
CHAPTER 4--PROTECTION OF OWNERSHIP
- Art. 526. Recognition of ownership; recovery of the thing.
- Art. 527. Necessary expenses.
- Art. 528. Useful expenses.
- Art. 529. Right of retention.
- Art. 530. Presumption of ownership of movable.
- Art. 531. Proof of ownership of immovable
- Art. 532. Common author.
TITLE III--PERSONAL SERVITUDES
CHAPTER 1--KINDS OF SERVITUDES
CHAPTER 2--USUFRUCT
SECTION 1--GENERAL PRINCIPLES
- Art. 535. Usufruct.
- Art. 536. Consumable things.
- Art. 537. Nonconsumable things.
- Art. 538. Usufruct of consumable things
- Art. 539. Usufruct of nonconsumable things.
- Art. 540. Nature of usufruct.
- Art. 541. Divisibility of usufruct.
- Art. 542. Divisibility of naked ownership.
- Art. 543. Partition of the property in kind or by licitation
- Art. 544. Methods of establishing usufruct; things susceptible of usufruct.
- Art. 545. Modifications of usufruct.
- Art. 546. Usufruct in favor of successive usufructuaries.
- Art. 547. Usufruct in favor of several usufructuaries.
- Art. 548. Existence of usufructuaries.
- Art. 549. Capacity to receive usufruct
SECTION 2--RIGHTS OF THE USUFRUCTUARY
- Art. 550. Right to all fruits.
- Art. 551. Kinds of fruits.
- Art. 552. Corporate distributions.
- Art. 553. Voting of shares of stock and other rights
- Art. 554. Commencement of the right to fruits.
- Art. 555. Nonapportionment of natural fruits.
- Art. 556. Apportionment of civil fruits.
- Art. 557. Possession and use of the things.
- Art. 558. Improvements and alterations
- Art. 559. Accessories.
- Art. 560. Trees, stones, and other materials.
- Art. 561. Mines and quarries.
- Art. 562. Usufruct of timberlands.
- Art. 563. Alluvion.
- Art. 564. Treasure.
- Art. 565. Predial servitudes.
- Art. 566. Actions.
- Art. 567. Contracts affecting the usufructuary's liability
- Art. 568. Disposition of nonconsumable things
- Art. 568.1. Donation and alienation
- Art. 568.2. Right to lease
- Art. 568.3. Requirement to remove encumbrance
- Art. 569. Duties with regard to things gradually or totally impaired
SECTION 3--OBLIGATIONS OF THE USUFRUCTUARY
- Art. 570. Inventory.
- Art. 571. Security
- Art. 572. Amount of security.
- Art. 573. Dispensation of security
- Art. 574. Delay in giving security
- Art. 575. Failure to give security
- Art. 576. Standard of care.
- Art. 577. Liability for repairs
- Art. 578. Ordinary and extraordinary repairs.
- Art. 579. Rights of action for repairs.
- Art. 580. Reimbursement for necessary repairs
- Art. 581. Liability for necessary expenses
- Art. 582. Abandonment of usufruct.
- Art. 583. Ruin from accident, force majeure, or age
- Art. 584. Periodic charges
- Art. 585. Extraordinary charges.
- Art. 586. Liability for debts; usufruct inter vivos
- Art. 587. Liability for debts; usufruct established mortis causa
- Art. 588. Discharge of debt on encumbered property; usufruct established inter vivos
- Art. 589. Discharge of debt on encumbered property by mortis causa usufructuary
- Art. 590. Encumbered property; discharge of debt on encumbered property by naked owner
- Art. 591. Continuation of usufruct after sale of property
- Art. 592. Multiple usufructuaries; contribution to payment of estate debts
- Art. 593. Discharge of legacy of annuity
- Art. 594. Court costs; expenses of litigation
- Art. 595. Expenses of litigation; legal usufruct.
- Art. 596. Expenses of litigation; conventional usufruct.
- Art. 597. Liability of the usufructuary for servitudes.
- Art. 598. Duty to give information to owner.
- Art. 599. Usufruct of a herd of animals.
- Art. 600. Disposition of animals.
- Art. 601. Removal of improvements
- Art. 602. Set off against damages.
SECTION 4--RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE
NAKED OWNER
- Art. 603. Disposition of the naked ownership; alienation or encumbrance of the property
- Art. 604. Servitudes
- Art. 605. Toleration of the enjoyment.
- Art. 606. Improvements.
SECTION 5--TERMINATION OF USUFRUCT
- Art. 607. Death of the usufructuary.
- Art. 608. Dissolution of juridical person; thirty year limitation
- Art. 609. Termination of legacy of revenues.
- Art. 610. Usufruct for a term or under condition.
- Art. 611. Term; transfer of usufruct to another person.
- Art. 612. Term; third person reaching a certain age.
- Art. 613. Loss, extinction, or destruction of property
- Art. 614. Fault of a third person.
- Art. 615. Change of the form of property
- Art. 616. Sale or exchange of the property; taxes
- Art. 617. Proceeds of insurance.
- Art. 618. Security for proceeds
- Art. 619. Changes made by the testator
- Art. 620. Sale of the property or of the usufruct
- Art. 621. Prescription of nonuse.
- Art. 622. Confusion of usufruct and naked ownership.
- Art. 623. Abuse of the enjoyment; consequences
- Art. 624. Security to prevent termination
- Art. 625. Intervention by creditors of the usufructuary
- Art. 626. Renunciation; rights of creditors.
- Art. 627. Right of retention.
- Art. 628. Consequences of termination; usufruct of nonconsumables.
- Art. 629. Consequences of termination; usufruct of consumables.
CHAPTER 3--HABITATION
- Art. 630. Habitation.
- Art. 631. Establishment and extinction.
- Art. 632. Regulation by title.
- Art. 633. Persons residing in the house.
- Art. 634. Extent of right of habitation.
- Art. 635. Degree of care; duty to restore the property.
- Art. 636. Taxes, repairs, and other charges.
- Art. 637. Nontransferable and nonheritable right.
- Art. 638. Duration of habitation.
CHAPTER 4--RIGHTS OF USE
- Art. 639. Right of use.
- Art. 640. Content of the servitude.
- Art. 641. Persons having the servitude.
- Art. 642. Extent of the servitude.
- Art. 643. Transferable right.
- Art. 644. Heritable right.
- Art. 645. Regulation of the servitude.
TITLE IV--PREDIAL SERVITUDES
CHAPTER 1--GENERAL PRINCIPLES
- Art. 646. Predial servitude; definition.
- Art. 647. Benefit to dominant estate.
- Art. 648. Contiguity or proximity of the estates.
- Art. 649. Nature; incorporeal immovable.
- Art. 650. Inseparability of servitude
- Art. 651. Obligations of the owner of the servient estate
- Art. 652. Indivisibility of servitude.
- Art. 653. Division of advantages.
- Art. 654. Kinds of predial servitudes.
CHAPTER 2--NATURAL SERVITUDES
- Art. 655. Natural drainage.
- Art. 656. Obligations of the owners.
- Art. 657. Estate bordering on running water.
- Art. 658. Estate through which water runs.
CHAPTER 3--LEGAL SERVITUDES
SECTION 1--LIMITATIONS OF OWNERSHIP
- Art. 659. Legal servitudes; notion.
- Art. 660. Keeping buildings in repair
- Art. 661. Building in danger of falling.
- Art. 662. Building near a wall.
- Art. 663. Projections over boundary.
- Art. 664. Rain drip from roof.
- Art. 665. Legal public servitudes.
- Art. 666. River road; substitution if destroyed or impassable.
- Art. 667. Limitations on use of property
- Art. 668. Inconvenience to neighbor.
- Art. 669. Regulation of inconvenience.
- Art. 670. Encroaching building.
- Art. 671. Destruction of private property to arrest fire.
- Art. 672. Other legal servitudes.
SECTION 2--COMMON ENCLOSURES
- Art. 673. Common wall servitude.
- Art. 674. Contribution by neighbor.
- Art. 675. Presumption of common wall.
- Art. 676. Adjoining wall.
- Art. 677. Rights and obligations of co-owners.
- Art. 678. Cost of repairs.
- Art. 679. Abandonment of common wall.
- Art. 680. Rights in common walls.
- Art. 681.
- Art. 682. Raising the height of common wall.
- Art. 683. Neighbor's right to make the raised part common.
- Art. 684. Enclosures.
- Art. 685. Common fences.
- Art. 686. Common ditches.
- Art. 687. Trees, bushes, and plants on the boundary.
- Art. 688. Branches or roots of trees, bushes, or plants on neighboring property.
SECTION 3--RIGHT OF PASSAGE
- Art. 689. Enclosed estate; right of passage
- Art. 690. Extent of passage
- Art. 691. Constructions
- Art. 692. Location of passage
- Art. 693. Enclosed estate; voluntary act.
- Art. 694. Enclosed estate; voluntary alienation or partition
- Art. 695. Relocation of servitude.
- Art. 696. Prescriptibility of action for indemnity.
- Art. 696.1. Utility
CHAPTER 4--CONVENTIONAL OR VOLUNTARY SERVITUDES
SECTION 1--KINDS OF CONVENTIONAL SERVITUDES
- Art. 697. Right to establish predial servitudes; limitations.
- Art. 698. Property susceptible of servitudes.
- Art. 699. Examples of predial servitudes.
- Art. 700. Servitude of support.
- Art. 701. Servitude of view.
- Art. 702. Prohibition of view.
- Art. 703. Servitude of light.
- Art. 704. Prohibition of light.
- Art. 705. Servitude of passage
- Art. 706. Servitudes; affirmative or negative.
- Art. 707. Servitudes; apparent or nonapparent.
SECTION 2--ESTABLISHMENT OF PREDIAL SERVITUDES
BY TITLE
- Art. 708. Establishment of predial servitude.
- Art. 709. Mandatary.
- Art. 710. Naked owner.
- Art. 711. Usufructuary.
- Art. 712. Owner for a term or under condition.
- Art. 713. Purchaser with reservation of redemption.
- Art. 714. Co-owner; servitude on entire estate.
- Art. 715. Exercise of the servitude.
- Art. 716. Servitude on undivided part.
- Art. 717. Partition in kind.
- Art. 718. Partition by licitation.
- Art. 719. Successor of the co-owner.
- Art. 720. Additional servitudes.
- Art. 721. Servitude on mortgaged property.
- Art. 722. Modes of establishment.
- Art. 723. Servitudes on public things.
- Art. 724. Multiple dominant or servient estates.
- Art. 725. Reciprocal servitudes.
- Art. 726. Servitude on after-acquired property.
- Art. 727. Servitude on part of an estate.
- Art. 728. Limitation of use.
- Art. 729. Conventional alteration of legal or natural servitude.
- Art. 730. Interpretation of servitude.
- Art. 731. Charge expressly for the benefit of an estate.
- Art. 732. Interpretation in the absence of express declaration.
- Art. 733. Interpretation; benefit of dominant estate.
- Art. 734. Interpretation; convenience of a person.
SECTION 3--ACQUISITION OF CONVENTIONAL SERVITUDES
FOR THE DOMINANT ESTATE
- Art. 735. Persons acquiring servitude.
- Art. 736. Capacity to acquire servitude.
- Art. 737. Renunciation of servitude by owner of dominant estate.
- Art. 738. No revocation by grantor.
- Art. 739. Acquisition by title only.
- Art. 740. Modes of acquisition of servitudes.
- Art. 741. Destination of the owner.
- Art. 742. Acquisitive prescription.
- Art. 743. Accessory rights.
SECTION 4--RIGHTS OF THE OWNER OF
THE DOMINANT ESTATE
- Art. 744. Necessary works; cost of repairs.
- Art. 745. Right to enter into the servient estate.
- Art. 746. Exoneration from responsibility by abandonment of the servient estate.
- Art. 747. Division of dominant estate.
- Art. 748. Noninterference by the owner of servient estate.
- Art. 749. Extent and manner of use of servitude when title is silent.
- Art. 750. Location of servitude when the title is silent.
SECTION 5--EXTINCTION OF PREDIAL SERVITUDES
- Art. 751. Destruction of dominant or of servient estate.
- Art. 752. Reestablishment of things.
- Art. 753. Prescription for nonuse.
- Art. 754. Commencement of nonuse.
- Art. 755. Obstacle to servitude.
- Art. 756. Failure to rebuild dominant or servient estate.
- Art. 757. Sufficiency of acts by third persons.
- Art. 758. Imprescriptibility of natural servitudes.
- Art. 759. Partial use.
- Art. 760. More extensive use than title.
- Art. 761. Use of accessory right.
- Art. 762. Use by co-owner.
- Art. 763. Minority or other disability.
- Art. 764. Burden of proof of use.
- Art. 765. Confusion.
- Art. 766. Resolutory condition.
- Art. 767. Acceptance of succession; confusion
- Art. 768. Confusion; separate and community property.
- Art. 769. Irrevocability of extinction by confusion.
- Art. 770. Abandonment of servient estate.
- Art. 771. Renunciation of servitude.
- Art. 772. Renunciation by owner.
- Art. 773. Expiration of time or happening of condition.
- Art. 774. Dissolution of the right of the grantor.
TITLE V--BUILDING RESTRICTIONS
- Art. 775. Building restrictions.
- Art. 776. Establishment
- Art. 777. Nature and regulation.
- Art. 778. Affirmative duties
- Art. 779. Injunctive relief.
- Art. 780. Amendment and termination of building restrictions
- Art. 781. Termination; liberative prescription
- Art. 782. Abandonment of plan or of restriction.
NOTE: Art. 783 eff. until Jan. 1, 2025. See Acts 2024, No. 158.
TITLE VI--BOUNDARIES
CHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
- Art. 784. Boundary; marker.
- Art. 785. Fixing of the boundary.
- Art. 786. Persons who may compel fixing of boundary.
- Art. 787. Lessee may compel lessor.
- Art. 788. Imprescriptibility of the right.
- Art. 789. Fixing of boundary judicially or extrajudicially.
- Art. 790. Costs.
- Art. 791. Liability for unauthorized removal of markers.
CHAPTER 2. EFFECT OF TITLES,
PRESCRIPTION, OR POSSESSION
- Art. 792. Fixing of boundary according to ownership or possession
- Art. 793. Determination of ownership according to titles.
- Art. 794. Determination of ownership according to prescription.
- Art. 795. Effect of boundary agreement.
- Art. 796. Error in the location of markers; rectification.
TITLE VII. OWNERSHIP IN INDIVISION
- Art. 797. Ownership in indivision; definition
- Art. 798. Right to fruits and products
- Art. 799. Liability of a co-owner
- Art. 800. Preservation of the thing
- Art. 801. Use and management by agreement
- Art. 802. Right to use the thing
- Art. 803. Use and management of the thing in the absence of agreement
- Art. 804. Substantial alterations or improvements
- Art. 805. Disposition of undivided share
- Art. 806. Expenses of maintenance and management
- Art. 807. Right to partition; exclusion by agreement
- Art. 808. Partition excluded
- Art. 809. Judicial and extrajudicial partition
- Art. 810. Partition in kind
- Art. 811. Partition by licitation or by private sale
- Art. 812. Effect of partition on real rights
- Art. 813. Partition in kind
- Art. 814. Rescission of partition for lesion
- Art. 815. Partition by licitation
- Art. 816. Partition in kind; warranty
- Art. 817. Imprescriptibility of action
- Art. 818. Other rights held in indivision
- Art. 819. Arts. 819 to 822 Repealed by Acts 1977, No. 514, 1.
- Art. 823. Arts. 823 to 855 Repealed by Acts 1977, No. 170, 1
- Art. 856. Arts. 856 to 869 Repealed by Acts 1977, No. 169, 1.
BOOK III
OF THE DIFFERENT MODES OF ACQUIRING THE
OWNERSHIP OF THINGS
PRELIMINARY TITLE--GENERAL DISPOSITIONS
TITLE I--OF SUCCESSIONS
CHAPTER 1--OF THE DIFFERENT SORTS OF
SUCCESSIONS AND SUCCESSORS
- Art. 871. Meaning of succession
- Art. 872. Meaning of estate
- Art. 873. Kinds of succession
- Art. 874. Testate succession
- Art. 875. Intestate succession
- Art. 876. Kinds of successors
- Art. 877.
- Art. 878.
- Art. 879.
CHAPTER 2--OF INTESTATE SUCCESSION
- Art. 880. Intestate succession
- Art. 881. Representation: effect
- Art. 882. Representation in direct line of descendants
- Art. 883. Representation of ascendants not permissible
- Art. 884. Representation in collateral line
- Art. 885. Basis of partition in cases of representation
- Art. 886. Representation of deceased persons only
- Art. 887. Representation of decedent whose succession was renounced
- Art. 888. Succession rights of descendants
- Art. 889. Devolution of community property
- Art. 890. Usufruct of surviving spouse
- Art. 891. Devolution of separate property; parents and brothers and sisters
- Art. 892. Devolution of separate property in absence of parents or in absence of brothers and sisters
- Art. 893. Brothers and sisters related by half-blood
- Art. 894. Separate property; rights of surviving spouse
- Art. 895. Separate property; rights of other ascendants
- Art. 896. Separate property; rights of other collaterals
- Art. 897. Repealed
- Art. 898. Repealed
- Art. 899. Nearest in degree among more remote relations
- Art. 900. Degrees of relationship
- Art. 901. Direct and collateral relationship
CHAPTER 3--OF THE RIGHTS OF THE STATE
- Art. 902. Rights of the state
- Art. 903. Arts. 903 to 933 Repealed by Acts 1981, No. 919, 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
CHAPTER 4. COMMENCEMENT OF SUCCESSION
- Art. 934. Commencement of succession
- Art. 935. Acquisition of ownership; seizin
- Art. 936. Continuation of the possession of decedent
- Art. 937. Transmission of rights of successor
- Art. 938. Exercise of succession rights
CHAPTER 5. LOSS OF SUCCESSION RIGHTS
- Art. 939. Existence of successor
- Art. 940. Same; unborn child
- Art. 941. Declaration of unworthiness
- Art. 942. Persons who may bring action
- Art. 943. Reconciliation or forgiveness
- Art. 944. Prescription
- Art. 945. Effects of declaration of unworthiness
- Art. 946. Devolution of succession rights of successor declared unworthy
CHAPTER 6. ACCEPTANCE AND RENUNCIATION
OF SUCCESSIONS
SECTION 1.
GENERAL PRINCIPLES
- Art. 947. Right of successor to accept or renounce
- Art. 948. Minor successor deemed to accept
- Art. 949. Death of decedent as prerequisite to acceptance or renunciation
- Art. 950. Knowledge required of successor as prerequisite to acceptance or renunciation
- Art. 951. Nullity of premature acceptance or renunciation
- Art. 952. Probate or annulment of testament after acceptance or renunciation of succession
- Art. 953. Legacy subject to a suspensive condition
- Art. 954. Retroactive effects of acceptance and renunciation
- Art. 955. Reserved]
- Art. 956. Claims of successor who is a creditor of the estate
SECTION 2. ACCEPTANCE
- Art. 957. Formal or informal acceptance
- Art. 958. Informal acceptance; use or disposition of property
- Art. 959. Informal acceptance; act of ownership
- Art. 960. Donative renunciation deemed acceptance
- Art. 961. Effect of acceptance
- Art. 962. Presumption of acceptance
SECTION 3. RENUNCIATION
- Art. 963. Requirement of formality
- Art. 964. Accretion upon renunciation in intestate successions
- Art. 965. Accretion upon renunciation in testate successions
- Art. 966. Acceptance or renunciation of accretion
SECTION 4. ACCEPTANCE OF SUCCESSION BY CREDITORS
CHAPTER 7--OF THE SEALS, AND OF THE AFFIXING
AND RAISING OF THE SAME
CHAPTER 8--OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF VACANT
AND INTESTATE SUCCESSIONS
SECTION 1--GENERAL DISPOSITIONS
- Art. 1095. Vacant succession, definition.
- Art. 1096. Intestate succession, definition.
- Art. 1097. Vacant succession; administration by administrators.
- Art. 1098. Arts. 1098, 1099 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
- Art. 1100. Liability for unauthorized possession of vacant succession.
SECTION 2--OF THE INVENTORY OF VACANT AND INTESTATE
SUCCESSIONS SUBJECT TO ADMINISTRATION
- Art. 1101. Arts. 1101, 1102 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
- Art. 1103. Repealed by Acts 1980, No. 150, 3, eff. Jan. 1, 1981.
- Art. 1104. Arts. 1104 to 1112 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
SECTION 3--OF THE APPOINTMENT OF CURATORS TO
SUCCESSIONS, AND OF THE SECURITY THEY ARE
BOUND TO GIVE
SECTION 4--OF THE DUTIES AND POWERS OF CURATORS OF
VACANT SUCCESSIONS AND OF ABSENT HEIRS
- Art. 1133. Arts. 1133 to 1137 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
- Art. 1138. Arts. 1138 to 1145 Repealed by Acts 1980, No. 150, 3, eff. Jan. 1, 1981.
- Art. 1146. Arts. 1146, 1147 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
- Art. 1148. Interest on succession funds; liability for private use.
- Art. 1149. Arts. 1149 to 1157 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
SECTION 5--OF THE CAUSES FOR WHICH A CURATOR OF A
SUCCESSION MAY BE DISMISSED OR SUPERSEDED
SECTION 6--OF THE SALE OF THE EFFECTS AND OF THE
SETTLEMENT OF SUCCESSIONS ADMINISTERED BY CURATORS
- Art. 1162. Arts. 1162 to 1170 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
- Art. 1171. Persons authorized to make sale.
- Art. 1172. Arts. 1172 to 1187 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
- Art. 1188. Unpaid new creditors' action against paid creditors; prescription.
- Art. 1189. Arts. 1189, 1190 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
SECTION 7--OF THE ACCOUNT TO BE RENDERED BY THE
CURATORS AND THE COMMISSION DUE TO THEM
- Art. 1191. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
- Art. 1192. Termination of curator's duties on appearance of heirs.
- Art. 1193. Arts. 1193 to 1209 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
SECTION 8--OF THE APPOINTMENT OF COUNSEL OF ABSENT
HEIRS, AND OF THEIR DUTIES
CHAPTER 9--OF THE SUCCESSIONS OF PERSONS
DOMICILIATED OUT OF THE STATE, AND OF THE TAX DUE BY
FOREIGN HEIRS, LEGATEES AND DONEES SECTION 1--OF THE
SUCCESSIONS OF PERSONS DOMICILIATED OUT OF THE STATE
SECTION 2--OF THE TAX DUE BY FOREIGN HEIRS,
LEGATEES AND DONEES
CHAPTER 10--OF SUCCESSIONS ADMINISTERED BY SYNDICS
CHAPTER 11--OF COLLATIONS
SECTION 1--WHAT COLLATION IS, AND BY WHOM IT IS DUE
- Art. 1227. Collation, definition.
- Art. 1228. Collation by descendants
- Art. 1229. Reasons for collation.
- Art. 1230. Presumption in favor of collation.
- Art. 1231. Express exclusion of collation; extra portion.
- Art. 1232. Method of declaring dispensation from collation
- Art. 1233. Sufficiency of declaration.
- Art. 1234. Reduction of donations exceeding disposable portion; calculation of legitime.
- Art. 1235. Persons entitled to demand collation
- Art. 1236. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 147, 3, eff. July 1, 1990.
- Art. 1237. Renouncing heir's right to donations not exceeding disposable portion.
- Art. 1238. Grandchildren; collation of donations made by grandparent after death of parent
- Art. 1239. Grandchildren; right to donations made by grandparent during life of parent
- Art. 1240. Grandchildren; collation of donations made by grandparent to parent.
- Art. 1241. Collation by great grandchildren and more remote descendants.
SECTION 2--TO WHOM THE COLLATION IS DUE, AND
WHAT THINGS ARE SUBJECT TO IT
- Art. 1242. Collation; succession of donor.
- Art. 1243. Expenditures subject to collation
- Art. 1244. Expenditures not subject to collation.
- Art. 1245. Manual gifts.
- Art. 1246. Profits from contracts with ascendant.
- Art. 1247. Share of partnership with ascendant.
- Art. 1248. Advantages other than donation.
- Art. 1249. Wages for services to ascendant.
- Art. 1250. Immovables destroyed while in possession of donee.
SECTION 3--HOW COLLATIONS ARE MADE
- Art. 1251. Methods of making collations.
- Art. 1252. Collation in kind, definition.
- Art. 1253. Collation by taking less, definition.
- Art. 1254. Movables or immovables.
- Art. 1255. Collation of immovables.
- Art. 1256. Immovables collated in kind; reimbursement for improvements.
- Art. 1257. Immovables collated in kind; allowance for expenses of preservation.
- Art. 1258. Immovables collated in kind; removal by donee of works erected for his pleasure.
- Art. 1259. Kinds of expenses made on immovable property.
- Art. 1260. Deterioration and damage to immovable, liability of donee.
- Art. 1261. Destruction of immovable after election to collate in kind.
- Art. 1262. Partial destruction of immovable after election to collate in kind.
- Art. 1263. Destruction of immovable after election to collate by taking less.
- Art. 1264. Creditors' rights on immovable collated in kind.
- Art. 1265. Preservation of creditor's mortgage rights after partition.
- Art. 1266. Immovables in excess of disposable portion; collation in kind.
- Art. 1267. Immovables in excess of disposable portion; collation by taking less.
- Art. 1268. Collation in kind; retention of immovable until reimbursement of expenses.
- Art. 1269. Collation by taking less; valuation of immovable.
- Art. 1270. Voluntary alienation or negligent loss of immovables subject to collation.
- Art. 1271. Forced alienation of immovables subject to collation.
- Art. 1272. Sale by donee and subsequent destruction of immovable subject to collation.
- Art. 1273. Collation by taking less; coheirs' election of collation by sale or in kind.
- Art. 1274. Failure of coheirs to make timely election.
- Art. 1275. Payment of collation by sale of succession effects.
- Art. 1276. Payment of collation with property of succession.
- Art. 1277. Payment of collation by donee where succession effects insufficient.
- Art. 1278. Time and security for payment.
- Art. 1279. Rights of coheirs against defaulting heir; foreclosure of special mortgage.
- Art. 1280. Privilege of seizing coheirs on proceeds of mortgage sale.
- Art. 1281. Alienation of immovable by donee by onerous title; creation of real right in immovable by donee or operation of law
- Art. 1282. Purchaser's retention of immovable upon payment of collations.
- Art. 1283. Collation of movables.
- Art. 1284. Donation of movables as absolute transfer of rights.
- Art. 1285. Collation of money.
- Art. 1286. Collation of movables or money by taking less; payment in money.
- Art. 1287. Collation of movables or money by taking less; payment in succession effects.
- Art. 1288. Payment of collation by donee where succession effects insufficient.
CHAPTER 12. OF THE PARTITION OF SUCCESSIONS
SECTION 1. OF THE NATURE OF PARTITION,
AND OF ITS SEVERAL KINDS
- Art. 1289. Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, 1.
- Art. 1290. Extent and application of rules; venue of action.
- Art. 1291. Venue of action where property partly in different parishes.
- Art. 1292. Undivided ownership rights until partition.
- Art. 1293. Partition of a succession, definition.
- Art. 1294. Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, 1.
- Art. 1295. Definitive and provisional partitions, definitions.
- Art. 1296. Definitive and provisional partitions, distinguished.
- Art. 1297. Stipulations against partition.
- Art. 1298. Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, 1.
- Art. 1299. Perpetual prohibition against partition by donor.
- Art. 1300. Limited or conditional prohibition against partition by donor.
- Art. 1301. Testator's right to prohibit partition during minority of heirs.
- Art. 1302. Testamentary partition
- Art. 1303. Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, 1.
- Art. 1304. Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, 1.
- Art. 1305. Prescription where possession is separate.
- Art. 1306. Prescription where one heir possesses separately and others possess in common.
SECTION 2--AMONG WHAT PERSONS PARTITION
CAN BE SUED FOR
- Art. 1307. Partition between heirs and legatees.
- Art. 1308. Partition between owners in common.
- Art. 1309. Partition between possessors in common.
- Art. 1310. Nature of possession required.
- Art. 1311. Action maintainable by one or more co-owners.
- Art. 1312. Partition suits by tutors and curators.
- Art. 1313. Partition suits by emancipated minors.
- Art. 1314. Defense of suits by tutors, curators and emancipated minors.
- Art. 1315. Partition suits by curators of absent heirs.
- Art. 1316. Arts. 1316, 1317 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
- Art. 1318. Partition by or against heir or successor of co-owner.
- Art. 1319. Retrocession repealed.
- Art. 1320. Ownership as basis for action of partition.
- Art. 1321. Separate possession of one co-owner, partition before prescription.
SECTION 3--IN WHAT MANNER THE JUDICIAL
PARTITION IS MADE
- Art. 1322. Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, 1.
- Art. 1323. Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, 1.
- Art. 1324. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
- Art. 1325. Inventory within one year of partition suit.
- Art. 1326. New appraisement.
- Art. 1327. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
- Art. 1328. Summary proceeding for action of partition.
- Art. 1329. Parties plaintiff and defendant.
- Art. 1330. Plaintiff's admission of defendant's heirship.
- Art. 1331. Collation in action of partition; time for deliberating.
- Art. 1332. Election to collate in kind.
- Art. 1333. Election to collate by taking less; failure to elect.
- Art. 1334. Appraisement of property to be collated.
- Art. 1335. Matters incidental to partition; procedure.
- Art. 1336. Judicial regulation of mode of partition.
- Art. 1337. Partition in kind; sale of movables to pay debts.
- Art. 1338. Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, 1.
- Art. 1339. Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, 1.
- Art. 1340. Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, 1.
- Art. 1341. Terms of sale of succession effects where all heirs are absent or minors.
- Art. 1342. Terms of sale of succession effects where heirs present demand sale for cash.
- Art. 1343. Partition sale; coheir's right to purchase hereditary portion.
- Art. 1344. Partition sale; purchase of minor's hereditary portion by tutor or curator.
- Art. 1345. Reference to recorder or notary for continuation of proceedings.
- Art. 1346. Amicable continuation of proceedings by heirs.
SECTION 4--HOW THE RECORDER OF THE PARISH OR THE
NOTARY IS BOUND TO PROCEED IN THE JUDICIAL PARTITION
- Art. 1347. Notice to parties.
- Art. 1348. Continuances of proceedings.
- Art. 1349. Settlement of accounts due by heirs to succession.
- Art. 1350. Items included in accounts.
- Art. 1351. Deduction of donations not subject to collation.
- Art. 1352. Court order as to mode of collation exhibited to officer
- Art. 1353. Inclusion of property collated in kind.
- Art. 1354. Inclusion of value of property collated by taking less.
- Art. 1355. Formation of active mass.
- Art. 1356. Composition of active mass.
- Art. 1357. Deductions from active mass.
- Art. 1358. Deductions, definition.
- Art. 1359. Deductions allowed.
- Art. 1360. Deductions in absence of collation or when collation is in kind.
- Art. 1361. Deductions, when collation is by taking less.
- Art. 1362. Coheir's right to take succession effects in payment of collation.
- Art. 1363. Disagreement among heirs entitled to receive collation in property.
- Art. 1364. Division into lots according to number of heirs or roots.
- Art. 1365. Equality in formation of lots.
- Art. 1366. Equalization by money when one lot more valuable than others.
- Art. 1367. Formation of lots by experts.
- Art. 1368. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
- Art. 1369. Repealed by Acts 1962, No. 70.
- Art. 1370. Subdivision among coheirs of same root.
- Art. 1371. Coheirs' proportionate liability for succession debts.
- Art. 1372. Observance of formalities.
- Art. 1373. Provisional partitions; persons authorized to demand new partition
- Art. 1374. Arts. 1374 to 1377 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
- Art. 1378. Errors of form, effect.
- Art. 1379. Delivery of property and title papers after partition.
- Art. 1380. Subsequent discovery of property, amendment of partition.
- Art. 1381. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 989, 7, eff. January 1, 1991.
SECTION 5--OF THE EFFECT OF PARTITION
SECTION 6--OF THE WARRANTY OF PARTITION
- Art. 1384. Reciprocal warranty against disturbance or eviction.
- Art. 1385. Exclusion of warranty.
- Art. 1386. Eviction through fault of coheir.
- Art. 1387. Proportionate liability of coheirs.
- Art. 1388. Amount of indemnity.
- Art. 1389. Liability of coheirs for portion of insolvent coheir.
- Art. 1390. Scope of warranty as to corporeal and incorporeal things.
- Art. 1391. Warranties always implied.
- Art. 1392. Warranty of solvency of debtor of rent charge, prescription.
- Art. 1393. Subsequent deterioration or destruction of property.
- Art. 1394. New debts or charges.
- Art. 1395. Tacit mortgage abolished.
- Art. 1396. Prescription of action of warranty.
SECTION 7--OF THE RESCISSION OF PARTITION
- Art. 1397. Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, 1.
- Art. 1398. Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, 1.
- Art. 1399. Definitive partitions involving minors, interdicts, or absent persons
- Art. 1400. Provisional partitions involving minors, interdicts, or absent persons
- Art. 1401. Omission of succession effects not cause for rescission.
- Art. 1402. Rescission of transactions effecting partition.
- Art. 1403. Rescission inadmissible after compromise.
- Art. 1404. Rescission inadmissible against sale of succession rights.
- Art. 1405. Sale of succession rights to coheir at risk of vendor, rescission inadmissible.
- Art. 1406. Sale to coheir of immovable rights only, rescission for lesion.
- Art. 1407. Facts required to obtain rescission for lesion.
- Art. 1408. Termination of partition suit by defendant's tender.
- Art. 1409. Amount of tender.
- Art. 1410. Rescission for fraud or violence inadmissible after alienation.
- Art. 1411. Rescission inadmissible against partition regulated by father.
- Art. 1412. Rescission in favor of minor effective for all parties.
- Art. 1413. Prescription of action of rescission.
- Art. 1414. Prescription against minors after judicial partition.
CHAPTER 13. PAYMENT OF THE DEBTS
OF AN ESTATE
SECTION 1. GENERAL DISPOSITIONS INTRODUCTION
SECTION 2. RIGHTS OF CREDITORS
- Art. 1416. Liability of universal successors to creditors
- Art. 1417. Reserved]
- Art. 1418. Successors who are creditors, order of preference
- Art. 1419. Rights of pursuit of creditor
SECTION 3. RESPONSIBILITY OF SUCCESSORS
AMONG THEMSELVES
- Art. 1420. Regulation of payment of debts by testament or by agreement among successors
- Art. 1421. Estate debts, charged
- Art. 1422. Debts attributable to identifiable or encumbered property
- Art. 1423. Decedent's debts charged ratably
- Art. 1424. Administration expenses, how charged
- Art. 1425. Liability of successors for contribution or reimbursement
- Art. 1426. Classification of receipts and expenditures in absence of controlling dispositions
- Art. 1427. Reporting and deducting as authorized by tax law
- Art. 1428. Rights and obligations of usufructuary not superseded
- Art. 1429. Rights and obligations of income interest in trust not superseded
TITLE II. DONATIONS
CHAPTER 1. GENERAL DISPOSITIONS
- Art. 1467. Methods of acquiring or disposing gratuitously
- Art. 1468. Donations inter vivos; definition
- Art. 1469. Donation mortis causa; definition
CHAPTER 2. OF THE CAPACITY NECESSARY FOR DISPOSING
AND RECEIVING BY DONATION INTER VIVOS
OR MORTIS CAUSA
- Art. 1470. Persons capable of giving or receiving
- Art. 1471. Capacity to give, time for existence
- Art. 1472. Capacity to receive, time for existence
- Art. 1473. Capacity to receive conditional donation, time for existence
- Art. 1474. Unborn children, capacity to receive
- Art. 1475. Nullity of donation to person incapable of receiving
- Art. 1476. Minors; incapacity to make donations, exceptions
- Art. 1477. Capacity to donate, mental condition of donor
- Art. 1478. Nullity of donation procured by fraud or duress
- Art. 1479. Nullity of donation procured through undue influence
- Art. 1480. Nullity due to fraud, duress, or undue influence; severability of valid provision
- Art. 1481. Fiduciary appointment, termination
- Art. 1482. Proof of incapacity to donate
- Art. 1483. Proof of fraud, duress, or undue influence
- Art. 1484. Interpretation of revocation or modification
- Art. 1485. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 147, 3, eff. July 1, 1990.
- Art. 1486. Arts. 1486, 1487 Repealed by Acts 1979, No. 607, 4
- Art. 1488. Repealed by Acts 1978, No. 362, 1.
- Art. 1489. Arts. 1489 to 1491 [Blank]
- Art. 1492. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 147, 3, eff. July 1, 1990.
CHAPTER 3. THE DISPOSABLE PORTION AND ITS
REDUCTION IN CASE OF EXCESS
- Art. 1493. Forced heirs; representation of forced heirs
- Art. 1493.1. Children conceived through donation of gametes
- Art. 1494. Forced heir entitled to legitime; exception
- Art. 1495. Amount of forced portion and disposable portion
- Art. 1495.1. Calculation of the legitime
- Art. 1496. Permissible burdens on legitime
- Art. 1497. Disposable portion in absence of forced heirs
- Art. 1498. Nullity of donation inter vivos of entire patrimony
- Art. 1499. Usufruct to surviving spouse
- Art. 1500. Forced portion in cases of judicial divestment, disinherison, or renunciation of succession rights
- Art. 1501. Repealed by Acts 1997, No. 706, 1.
- Art. 1502. Inability to satisfy legitime by usufruct or income interest in trust only
- Art. 1503. Reduction of excessive donations
- Art. 1504. Reduction of donations, exclusive right of forced heirs
- Art. 1505. Calculation of disposable portion on mass of succession
- Art. 1506. Reserved]
- Art. 1507. Reduction of legacies before donations inter vivos, order of reduction
- Art. 1508. Reduction of donations inter vivos
- Art. 1509. Insolvency of a donee
- Art. 1510. Remunerative donations, extent of reduction
- Art. 1511. Onerous donation, extent of reduction
- Art. 1512. Retention of fruits and products of donation by donee until demand for reduction
- Art. 1513. Reduction in kind when property is owned by the donee or successors by gratuitous title; effects of alienation by donee
- Art. 1514. Usufruct of surviving spouse affecting legitime; security
- Art. 1515. [Blank]
- Art. 1516. [Blank]
- Art. 1517. [Blank]
- Art. 1518. [Blank]
CHAPTER 4--OF DISPOSITIONS REPROBATED BY LAW IN
DONATIONS INTER VIVOS AND MORTIS CAUSA
- Art. 1519. Impossible, illegal or immoral conditions.
- Art. 1520. Prohibited substitutions, definitions
- Art. 1521. Vulgar substitutions
- Art. 1522. Separate donations of usufruct and naked ownership
CHAPTER 5. DONATIONS INTER VIVOS
SECTION 1. GENERAL DISPOSITIONS
- Art. 1526. Onerous donation
- Art. 1527. Remunerative donations
- Art. 1528. Charges or conditions imposed by donor
- Art. 1529. Donation of future property; nullity
- Art. 1530. Donation conditional on will of donor; nullity
- Art. 1531. Donation conditional on payment of future or unexpressed debts and charges; nullity
- Art. 1532. Stipulation for right of return to donor
- Art. 1533. Right of return; effect
SECTION 2. OF THE FORM OF DONATIONS INTER VIVOS
- Art. 1541. Form required for donations
- Art. 1542. Identification of donor, donee, and the thing donated required
- Art. 1543. Manual gift
- Art. 1544. Donation effective from time of acceptance
- Art. 1545. Acceptance in person or by mandatary
- Art. 1546. Acceptance during lifetime of donee
- Art. 1547. Acceptance by creditor prohibited
- Art. 1548. Unemancipated minor; persons authorized to accept
- Art. 1549. Thing acquired subject to existing charges
- Art. 1550. Form for donation of certain incorporeal movables
- Art. 1551. Effects of acceptance
SECTION 3. EXCEPTIONS TO THE RULE OF THE IRREVOCABILITY OF
DONATIONS INTER VIVOS
- Art. 1556. Causes for revocation or dissolution
- Art. 1557. Revocation for ingratitude
- Art. 1558. Revocation for ingratitude; prescription, parties
- Art. 1559. Revocation for ingratitude, effect on alienations, leases, or encumbrances
- Art. 1560. Revocation for ingratitude, restoration
- Art. 1561. Reserved
- Art. 1562. Dissolution for nonfulfillment of suspensive condition or for occurrence of resolutory condition
- Art. 1563. Nonfulfillment of conditions or nonperformance of charges that donee can perform or prevent
- Art. 1564. Dissolution for non-execution of other condition; prescription
- Art. 1565. Dissolution for non-execution of condition
- Art. 1566. Revocation or dissolution, donee's liability for fruits
- Art. 1567. Donee unable to return thing in same condition
CHAPTER 6. DISPOSITIONS MORTIS CAUSA
SECTION 1. TESTAMENTS GENERALLY
- Art. 1570. Testaments; form
- Art. 1571. Testaments with others or by others prohibited
- Art. 1572. Testamentary dispositions committed to the choice of a third person
- Art. 1573. Formalities
SECTION 2. FORMS OF TESTAMENTS
- Art. 1574. Forms of testaments
- Art. 1575. Olographic testament
- Art. 1576. Notarial testament
- Art. 1577. Requirements of form
- Art. 1578. Notarial testament; testator literate and sighted but physically unable to sign
- Art. 1579. Notarial testament; testator unable to read
- Art. 1580. Notarial testament in braille form
- Art. 1580.1. Deaf or deaf and blind notarial testament; form; witnesses
SECTION 3. OF THE COMPETENCE OF WITNESSES AND OF CERTAIN DESIGNATIONS IN TESTAMENTS
- Art. 1581. Persons incompetent to be witnesses
- Art. 1582. Effect of witness or notary as legatee
- Art. 1582.1. Persons prohibited from witnessing; effect
- Art. 1583. Certain designations not legacies
SECTION 4. TESTAMENTARY DISPOSITIONS
- Art. 1584. Kinds of testamentary dispositions
- Art. 1585. Universal legacy
- Art. 1586. General legacy
- Art. 1587. Particular legacy
- Art. 1588. Joint or separate legacy
- Art. 1589. Lapse of legacies
- Art. 1590. Testamentary accretion
- Art. 1591. Accretion of particular and general legacies
- Art. 1592. Accretion among joint legatees
- Art. 1593. Exception to rule of testamentary accretion
- Art. 1594. Reserved]
- Art. 1595. Accretion to universal legatee
- Art. 1596. Accretion to intestate successors
- Art. 1597. Loss, extinction, or destruction of property given
- Art. 1598. Right of legatees to fruits and products
- Art. 1599. Payment of legacies, preference of payment
- Art. 1600. Particular legacies; preference of payment
- Art. 1601. Preference of payment among particular legacies
- Art. 1602. Discharge of an unsatisfied particular legacy
- Art. 1603. Reserved]
- Art. 1604. Discharge of legacies, limitation of liability
SECTION 5. PROBATE OF TESTAMENTS
SECTION 6. REVOCATION OF TESTAMENTS AND LEGACIES
- Art. 1606. Testator's right of revocation
- Art. 1607. Revocation of entire testament by testator
- Art. 1608. Revocation of a legacy or other testamentary provision
- Art. 1609. Revocation of juridical act prior to testator's death
- Art. 1610. Other modifications
- Art. 1610.1. Grounds for revocation of testamentary dispositions
SECTION 7. RULES FOR THE INTERPRETATION OF LEGACIES
- Art. 1611. Intent of testator controls
- Art. 1612. Preference for interpretation that gives effect
- Art. 1613. Mistake in identification of object bequeathed
- Art. 1614. Interpretation as to after-acquired property
- Art. 1615. Contradictory provisions
- Art. 1616. Legacy to creditor
SECTION 8. DISINHERISON
- Art. 1617. Disinherison of forced heirs
- Art. 1618. Formalities for disinherison
- Art. 1619. Disinherison, express and for just cause
- Art. 1620. Limitation of causes for disinherison
- Art. 1621. Children; causes for disinherison by parents
- Art. 1622. Grandparents; causes for disinherison of grandchildren
- Art. 1623. Timing of action; no defense
- Art. 1624. Mention of cause for disinherison; burden of proof; reconciliation
- Art. 1625. Reconciliation
- Art. 1626. Defenses to disinherison
CHAPTER 7. OF PARTITIONS MADE BY PARENTS AND OTHER
ASCENDANTS AMONG THEIR DESCENDANTS
- Art. 1724. Right of parents and ascendants to partition property among descendants
- Art. 1725. Method of making partition
- Art. 1726. Partition by act inter vivos, formalities.
- Art. 1727. Testamentary partitions, formalities.
- Art. 1728. Property not included in partition.
- Art. 1729. Necessity for partition to include all descendants.
- Art. 1730. Limitation in relation to disposable portion.
- Art. 1731. Action to rescind partition, payment of costs.
- Art. 1732. Tender by defendant in action of rescission.
- Art. 1733. Donation of extra portion not affected by rescission.
CHAPTER 8. OF DONATIONS INTER VIVOS MADE IN CONTEMPLATION
OF MARRIAGE BY THIRD PERSONS
SECTION 1. IN GENERAL
- Art. 1734. Donations in contemplation of marriage by third persons; in general
- Art. 1735. Form
- Art. 1736. Condition
SECTION 2. DONATIONS OF PRESENT PROPERTY
SECTION 3. DONATIONS OF PROPERTY TO BE LEFT AT DEATH
- Art. 1738. Beneficiaries
- Art. 1739. Limited irrevocability
- Art. 1740. Division following substitution of common descendants
- Art. 1741. Caducity; causes and effects
- Art. 1742. Acceptance or renunciation of succession
- Art. 1743. Universal succession; liability for estate debts
CHAPTER 9. OF INTERSPOUSAL DONATIONS INTER VIVOS
- Art. 1744. Donations between future or present spouses; in general
- Art. 1745. Applicability of rules on donations in contemplation of marriage by third person
- Art. 1746. Objects and beneficiaries
- Art. 1747. Form
- Art. 1748. Right of return not presumed
- Art. 1749. Donation of property to be left at death; caducity
- Art. 1750. Donations of property to be left at death made during marriage; revocability
- Art. 1751. Disguised donations and donations to persons interposed
- Art. 1752. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 147, 3, eff. July 1, 1990.
- Art. 1753. Repealed by Acts 1918, No. 238, 1.
- Art. 1754. Repealed by Acts 2004, No. 619, §1, eff. Sept. 1, 2005.
- Art. 1755. Repealed by Acts 2004, No. 619, §1, eff. Sept. 1, 2005.
TITLE III. OBLIGATIONS IN GENERAL
CHAPTER 1. GENERAL PRINCIPLES
- Art. 1756. Obligations; definition
- Art. 1757. Sources of obligations
- Art. 1758. General effects
- Art. 1759. Good faith
CHAPTER 2. NATURAL OBLIGATIONS
- Art. 1760. Moral duties that may give rise to a natural obligation
- Art. 1761. Effects of a natural obligation
- Art. 1762. Examples of circumstances giving rise to a natural obligation
CHAPTER 3. KINDS OF OBLIGATIONS
SECTION 1. REAL OBLIGATIONS
SECTION 2. STRICTLY PERSONAL AND
HERITABLE OBLIGATIONS
SECTION 3. CONDITIONAL OBLIGATIONS
- Art. 1767. Suspensive and resolutory condition
- Art. 1768. Expressed and implied conditions
- Art. 1769. Unlawful or impossible condition
- Art. 1770. Condition that depends on the whim or the will of the obligor
- Art. 1771. Obligee's right pending condition
- Art. 1772. Fault of a party
- Art. 1773. Time for fulfillment of condition that an event shall occur
- Art. 1774. Time for fulfillment of condition that an event shall not occur
- Art. 1775. Effects retroactive
- Art. 1776. Contract for continuous or periodic performance
SECTION 4. OBLIGATIONS WITH A TERM
- Art. 1777. Express or implied term
- Art. 1778. Term for performance
- Art. 1779. Term presumed to benefit the obligor
- Art. 1780. Renunciation of a term
- Art. 1781. Performance before end of term
- Art. 1782. If the obligor is insolvent
- Art. 1783. Impairment or failure of security
- Art. 1784. Term for performance not fixed
- Art. 1785. Performance on term
SECTION 5. OBLIGATIONS WITH MULTIPLE PERSONS
- Art. 1786. Several, joint, and solidary obligations
- Art. 1787. Several obligations; effects
- Art. 1788. Joint obligations for obligors or obligees
- Art. 1789. Divisible and indivisible joint obligation
- Art. 1790. Solidary obligations for obligees
- Art. 1791. Extinction of obligation by performance
- Art. 1792. Remission by one obligee
- Art. 1793. Interruption of prescription
- Art. 1794. Solidary obligation for obligors
- Art. 1795. Solidary obligor may not request division; action against one obligor after action against another
- Art. 1796. Solidarity not presumed
- Art. 1797. Solidary obligation arising from different sources
- Art. 1798. Obligation subject to condition or term
- Art. 1799. Interruption of prescription
- Art. 1800. Solidary liability for damages
- Art. 1801. Defenses that solidary obligor may raise
- Art. 1802. Renunciation of solidarity
- Art. 1803. Remission of debt to or transaction or compromise with one obligor
- Art. 1804. Liability of solidary obligors between themselves
- Art. 1805. Enforcement of contribution
- Art. 1806. Insolvency of a solidary obligor
SECTION 6. CONJUNCTIVE AND ALTERNATIVE OBLIGATIONS
- Art. 1807. Conjunctive obligation
- Art. 1808. Alternative obligation
- Art. 1809. Choice belongs to the obligor
- Art. 1810. Delay in exercising choice
- Art. 1811. Obligor may not choose part of one item
- Art. 1812. Impossibility or unlawfulness of one item of performance
- Art. 1813. Impossibility or unlawfulness of all items of performance
- Art. 1814. Obligor's liability for damages
SECTION 7. DIVISIBLE AND INDIVISIBLE OBLIGATIONS
- Art. 1815. Divisible and indivisible obligation
- Art. 1816. Effect of divisible obligation between single obligor and obligee
- Art. 1817. Effects of divisible obligation among successors
- Art. 1818. Effects of indivisible obligations between more than one obligor or obligee
- Art. 1819. Effect of indivisible obligation among successors
- Art. 1820. Solidarity is not indivisibility
CHAPTER 4. TRANSFER OF OBLIGATIONS
SECTION 1. ASSUMPTION OF OBLIGATIONS
- Art. 1821. Assumption by agreement between obligor and third person
- Art. 1822. Third person bound for amount assumed
- Art. 1823. Assumption by agreement between obligee and third person
- Art. 1824. Defenses
SECTION 2. SUBROGATION
- Art. 1825. Definition
- Art. 1826. Effects
- Art. 1827. Conventional subrogation by the obligee
- Art. 1828. Conventional subrogation by the obligor
- Art. 1829. Subrogation by operation of law
- Art. 1830. Effects of legal subrogation
CHAPTER 5. PROOF OF OBLIGATIONS
- Art. 1831. Party must prove obligation
- Art. 1832. Written form required by law
- Art. 1833. Authentic act
- Art. 1834. Act that fails to be authentic
- Art. 1835. Authentic act constitutes full proof between parties and heirs
- Art. 1836. Act under private signature duly acknowledged
- Art. 1837. Act under private signature
- Art. 1838. Party must acknowledge or deny signature
- Art. 1839. Transfer of immovable property
- Art. 1840. Copy of authentic act
- Art. 1841. Copy of recorded writing
- Art. 1842. Confirmation
- Art. 1843. Ratification
- Art. 1844. Effects of confirmation and ratification
- Art. 1845. Confirmation of donation
- Art. 1846. Contract not in excess of five hundred dollars
- Art. 1847. Debt of a third person and debt extinguished by prescription
- Art. 1848. Testimonial or other evidence not admitted to disprove a writing
- Art. 1849. Proof of simulation
- Art. 1850.
- Art. 1851.
- Art. 1852.
- Art. 1853. Judicial confession
CHAPTER 6. EXTINCTION OF OBLIGATIONS
SECTION 1. PERFORMANCE
- Art. 1854. Extinction by performance
- Art. 1855. Performance by a third person
- Art. 1856. Valid transfer of object of performance
- Art. 1857. Performance rendered to the obligee
- Art. 1858. Lack of capacity of obligee
- Art. 1859. Performance in violation of seizure
- Art. 1860. Quality of thing to be given
- Art. 1861. Partial performance
- Art. 1862. Place of performance
- Art. 1863. Expenses
SUBSECTION A. IMPUTATION OF PAYMENT
- Art. 1864. Imputation by obligor
- Art. 1865. Imputation to debt not yet due
- Art. 1866. Payment imputed to interest
- Art. 1867. Imputation by obligee
- Art. 1868. Imputation not made by the parties
SUBSECTION B. TENDER AND DEPOSIT
- Art. 1869. Offer to perform and deposit by obligor
- Art. 1870. Notice as tender
- Art. 1871. Deposit of things by obligor
- Art. 1872. Sale of a thing and deposit of proceeds
SECTION 2. IMPOSSIBILITY OF PERFORMANCE
- Art. 1873. Obligor not liable when failure caused by fortuitous event
- Art. 1874. Fortuitous event that would have destroyed object in hands of obligee
- Art. 1875. Fortuitous event
- Art. 1876. Contract dissolved when performance becomes impossible
- Art. 1877. Fortuitous event that has made performance impossible in part
- Art. 1878. Fortuitous event after obligor performed in part
SECTION 3. NOVATION
- Art. 1879. Extinguishment of existing obligation
- Art. 1880. Novation not presumed
- Art. 1881. Objective novation
- Art. 1882. Subjective novation
- Art. 1883. No effect when obligation is invalid
- Art. 1884. Security for extinguished obligation
- Art. 1885. Novation of solidary obligation
- Art. 1886. Delegation of performance
- Art. 1887. Discharge of any prior obligor does not affect security
SECTION 4. REMISSION OF DEBT
- Art. 1888. Express or tacit remission
- Art. 1889. Presumption of remission
- Art. 1890. Remission effective when communication is received by the obligor
- Art. 1891. Release of real security
- Art. 1892. Remission granted to sureties
SECTION 5. COMPENSATION
- Art. 1893. Compensation extinguishes obligations
- Art. 1894. Obligation not subject to compensation
- Art. 1895. Obligations not to be performed at the same place
- Art. 1896. Rules of imputation of payment
- Art. 1897. Compensation extinguishes obligation of surety
- Art. 1898. Compensation between obligee and solidary obligor
- Art. 1899. Rights acquired by third parties
- Art. 1900. Assignment by obligee
- Art. 1901. Compensation by agreement
- Art. 1902. Compensation by judicial declaration
SECTION 6. CONFUSION
- Art. 1903. Union of qualities of obligee and obligor
- Art. 1904. Obligation of the surety
- Art. 1905. Solidary obligations
TITLE IV. CONVENTIONAL OBLIGATIONS OR CONTRACTS
CHAPTER 1. GENERAL PRINCIPLES
- Art. 1906. Definition of contract
- Art. 1907. Unilateral contracts
- Art. 1908. Bilateral or synallagmatic contracts
- Art. 1909. Onerous contracts
- Art. 1910. Gratuitous contracts
- Art. 1911. Commutative contracts
- Art. 1912. Aleatory contracts
- Art. 1913. Principal and accessory contracts
- Art. 1914. Nominate and innominate contracts
- Art. 1915. Rules applicable to all contracts
- Art. 1916. Rules applicable to nominate contracts
- Art. 1917. Rules applicable to all kinds of obligations
CHAPTER 2. CONTRACTUAL CAPACITY AND EXCEPTIONS
- Art. 1918. General statement of capacity
- Art. 1919. Right to plead rescission
- Art. 1920. Right to require confirmation or rescission of the contract
- Art. 1921. Rescission of contract for incapacity
- Art. 1922. Fully emancipated minor
- Art. 1923. Incapacity of unemancipated minor; exceptions
- Art. 1924. Mere representation of majority; reliance
- Art. 1925. Noninterdicted person deprived of reason; protection of innocent contracting party by onerous title
- Art. 1926. Attack on noninterdicted decedent's contracts
CHAPTER 3. CONSENT
- Art. 1927. Consent
- Art. 1928. Irrevocable offer
- Art. 1929. Expiration of irrevocable offer for lack of acceptance
- Art. 1930. Revocable offer
- Art. 1931. Expiration of revocable offer
- Art. 1932. Expiration of offer by death or incapacity of either party
- Art. 1933. Option contracts
- Art. 1934. Time when acceptance of an irrevocable offer is effective
- Art. 1935. Time when acceptance of a revocable offer is effective
- Art. 1936. Reasonableness of manner and medium of acceptance
- Art. 1937. Time when revocation is effective
- Art. 1938. Reception of revocation, rejection, or acceptance
- Art. 1939. Acceptance by performance
- Art. 1940. Acceptance only by completed performance
- Art. 1941. Notice of commencement of performance
- Art. 1942. Acceptance by silence
- Art. 1943. Acceptance not in accordance with offer
- Art. 1944. Offer of reward made to the public
- Art. 1945. Revocation of an offer of reward made to the public
- Art. 1946. Performance by several persons
- Art. 1947. Form contemplated by parties
CHAPTER 4. VICES OF CONSENT
SECTION 1. ERROR
- Art. 1948. Vitiated consent
- Art. 1949. Error vitiates consent
- Art. 1950. Error that concerns cause
- Art. 1951. Other party willing to perform
- Art. 1952. Rescission; liability for damages
SECTION 2. FRAUD
- Art. 1953. Fraud may result from misrepresentation or from silence
- Art. 1954. Confidence between the parties
- Art. 1955. Error induced by fraud
- Art. 1956. Fraud committed by a third person
- Art. 1957. Proof
- Art. 1958. Damages
SECTION 3. DURESS
- Art. 1959. Nature
- Art. 1960. Duress directed against third persons
- Art. 1961. Duress by third person
- Art. 1962. Threat of exercising a right
- Art. 1963. Contract with party in good faith
- Art. 1964. Damages
SECTION 4. LESION
CHAPTER 5. CAUSE
- Art. 1966. No obligation without cause
- Art. 1967. Cause defined; detrimental reliance
- Art. 1968. Unlawful cause
- Art. 1969. Cause not expressed
- Art. 1970. Untrue expression of cause
CHAPTER 6. OBJECT AND MATTER OF CONTRACTS
- Art. 1971. Freedom of parties
- Art. 1972. Possible or impossible object
- Art. 1973. Object determined as to kind
- Art. 1974. Determination by third person
- Art. 1975. Output or requirements
- Art. 1976. Future things
- Art. 1977. Obligation or performance by a third person
CHAPTER 7. THIRD PARTY BENEFICIARY
- Art. 1978. Stipulation for a third party
- Art. 1979. Revocation
- Art. 1980. Revocation or refusal
- Art. 1981. Rights of beneficiary and stipulator
- Art. 1982. Defenses of the promisor
CHAPTER 8. EFFECTS OF CONVENTIONAL OBLIGATIONS
SECTION 1. GENERAL EFFECTS OF CONTRACTS
- Art. 1983. Law for the parties; performance in good faith
- Art. 1984. Rights and obligations will pass to successors
- Art. 1985. Effects for third parties
SECTION 2. SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE
- Art. 1986. Right of the obligee
- Art. 1987. Right to restrain obligor
- Art. 1988. Judgment may stand for act
SECTION 3. PUTTING IN DEFAULT
- Art. 1989. Damages for delay
- Art. 1990. Obligor put in default by arrival of term
- Art. 1991. Manners of putting in default
- Art. 1992. Risk devolves upon the obligor
- Art. 1993. Reciprocal obligations
SECTION 4. DAMAGES
- Art. 1994. Obligor liable for failure to perform
- Art. 1995. Measure of damages
- Art. 1996. Obligor in good faith
- Art. 1997. Obligor in bad faith
- Art. 1998. Damages for nonpecuniary loss
- Art. 1999. Assessment of damages left to the court
- Art. 2000. Damages for delay measured by interest; no need of proof; attorney fees
- Art. 2001. Interest on interest
- Art. 2002. Reasonable efforts to mitigate damages
- Art. 2003. Obligee in bad faith
- Art. 2004. Clause that excludes or limits liability
SECTION 5. STIPULATED DAMAGES
- Art. 2005. Secondary obligation
- Art. 2006. Nullity of the principal obligation
- Art. 2007. Stipulated damages or performance
- Art. 2008. Failure to perform justified
- Art. 2009. Obligee not bound to prove damage
- Art. 2010. Obligor put in default
- Art. 2011. Benefit from partial performance
- Art. 2012. Stipulated damages may not be modified
CHAPTER 9. DISSOLUTION
- Art. 2013. Obligee's right to dissolution
- Art. 2014. Importance of failure to perform
- Art. 2015. Dissolution after notice to perform
- Art. 2016. Dissolution without notice to perform
- Art. 2017. Express dissolution clause
- Art. 2018. Effects of dissolution
- Art. 2019. Contracts for continuous or periodic performance
- Art. 2020. Contracts made by more than two parties
- Art. 2021. Rights of third party in good faith
- Art. 2022. Refusal to perform
- Art. 2023. Security for performance
- Art. 2024. Contract terminated by a party's initiative
CHAPTER 10. SIMULATION
- Art. 2025. Definition; simulation and counterletter
- Art. 2026. Absolute simulation
- Art. 2027. Relative simulation
- Art. 2028. Effects as to third persons
CHAPTER 11. NULLITY
- Art. 2029. Nullity of contracts
- Art. 2030. Absolute nullity of contracts
- Art. 2031. Relative nullity of contracts
- Art. 2032. Prescription of action
- Art. 2033. Effects
- Art. 2034. Nullity of a provision
- Art. 2035. Rights of third party in good faith
CHAPTER 12. REVOCATORY ACTION AND OBLIQUE ACTION
SECTION 1. REVOCATORY ACTION
- Art. 2036. Act of the obligor that causes or increases his insolvency
- Art. 2037. Insolvency
- Art. 2038. Onerous contract made by the obligor
- Art. 2039. Gratuitous contract made by the obligor
- Art. 2040. Contract made in course of business
- Art. 2041. Action must be brought within one year
- Art. 2042. Obligee must join obligor and third persons
- Art. 2043. Assets transferred must be returned
SECTION 2. OBLIQUE ACTION
CHAPTER 13. INTERPRETATION OF CONTRACTS
- Art. 2045. Determination of the intent of the parties
- Art. 2046. No further interpretation when intent is clear
- Art. 2047. Meaning of words
- Art. 2048. Words susceptible of different meanings
- Art. 2049. Provision susceptible of different meanings
- Art. 2050. Provisions interpreted in light of each other
- Art. 2051. Contract worded in general terms
- Art. 2052. Situation to which the contract applies
- Art. 2053. Nature of contract, equity, usages, conduct of the parties, and other contracts between same parties
- Art. 2054. No provision of the parties for a particular situation
- Art. 2055. Equity and usage
- Art. 2056. Standard-form contracts
- Art. 2057. Contract interpreted in favor of obligor
- Art. 2058. Arts. 2058 to 2291 Repealed by Acts 1984, No. 331, 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1985.
TITLE V. OBLIGATIONS ARISING WITHOUT AGREEMENT
CHAPTER 1--MANAGEMENT OF AFFAIRS
(Negotiorum Gestio)
- Art. 2292. Management of affairs; definition
- Art. 2293. Application of rules governing mandate
- Art. 2294. Duties of the manager; notice to the owner
- Art. 2295. Duties of the manager; liability for loss
- Art. 2296. Capacity
- Art. 2297. Obligations of the owner
CHAPTER 2--ENRICHMENT WITHOUT CAUSE
SECTION 1. GENERAL PRINCIPLES
SECTION 2. PAYMENT OF A THING NOT OWED
- Art. 2299. Obligation to restore
- Art. 2300. Obligation that does not exist
- Art. 2301. Obligation under suspensive condition
- Art. 2302. Payment of the debt of another person
- Art. 2303. Liability of the person receiving payment
- Art. 2304. Restoration of a thing or its value
- Art. 2305. Liability when the thing is alienated
- Art. 2306. Repealed by Acts 1995, No. 1041, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.
- Art. 2307. Repealed by Acts 1995, No. 1041, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.
- Art. 2308. Repealed by Acts 1995, No. 1041, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.
- Art. 2309. Repealed by Acts 1995, No. 1041, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.
- Art. 2310. Repealed by Acts 1995, No. 1041, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.
- Art. 2311. Repealed by Acts 1995, No. 1041, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.
- Art. 2312. Repealed by Acts 1995, No. 1041, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.
- Art. 2313. Repealed by Acts 1995, No. 1041, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.
- Art. 2314. Repealed by Acts 1979, No. 180, 3.
CHAPTER 3--OF OFFENSES AND QUASI OFFENSES
- Art. 2315. Liability for acts causing damages
- Art. 2315.1. Survival action
- Art. 2315.2. Wrongful death action
- Art. 2315.3. Additional damages; child pornography
- Art. 2315.4. Additional damages; intoxicated defendant
- Art. 2315.5. Wrongful death and survival action; exception
- Art. 2315.6. Liability for damages caused by injury to another
- Art. 2315.7. Liability for damages caused by criminal sexual activity occurring during childhood
- Art. 2315.8. Liability for damages caused by domestic abuse
- Art. 2315.9. Liability for damages caused by acts of terror
- Art. 2315.10. Liability for death caused by hazing; additional damages
- Art. 2315.11. Liability for damages caused by sexual assault
- Art. 2316. Negligence, imprudence or want of skill.
- Art. 2317. Acts of others and of things in custody.
- Art. 2317.1. Damage caused by ruin, vice, or defect in things
- Art. 2318. Acts of a minor
- Art. 2319. Acts of interdicts
- Art. 2320. Acts of servants, students or apprentices
- Art. 2321. Damage caused by animals; livestock
- Art. 2322. Damage caused by ruin of building
- Art. 2322.1. Users of blood or tissue; a medical service
- Art. 2323. Comparative fault
- Art. 2324. Liability as solidary or joint and divisible obligation
- Art. 2324.1. Damages; discretion of judge or jury
- Art. 2324.2. Reduction of recovery
TITLE VI--MATRIMONIAL REGIMES
CHAPTER 1--GENERAL PRINCIPLES
- Art. 2325. Matrimonial regime.
- Art. 2326. Kinds of matrimonial regimes.
- Art. 2327. Legal regime.
- Art. 2328. Contractual regime; matrimonial agreement.
- Art. 2329. Exclusion or modification of matrimonial regime.
- Art. 2330. Limits of contractual freedom.
- Art. 2331. Form of matrimonial agreement.
- Art. 2332. Effect toward third persons.
- Art. 2333. Minors.
CHAPTER 2--THE LEGAL REGIME OF COMMUNITY OF
ACQUETS AND GAINS
SECTION 1--GENERAL DISPOSITIONS
- Art. 2334. Persons; scope of application of the legal regime.
- Art. 2335. Classification of property
- Art. 2336. Ownership of community property
- Art. 2337. Disposition of undivided interest.
- Art. 2338. Community property.
- Art. 2339. Fruits and revenues of separate property
- Art. 2340. Presumption of community.
- Art. 2341. Separate property.
- Art. 2341.1. Acquisition of undivided interests; separate and community property
- Art. 2342. Declaration of acquisition of separate property
- Art. 2343. Donation by spouse of interest in community.
- Art. 2343.1. Transfer of separate property to the community.
- Art. 2344. Offenses and quasi-offenses; damages as community or separate property.
- Art. 2345. Satisfaction of obligation during community.
SECTION 2--MANAGEMENT OF COMMUNITY PROPERTY
- Art. 2346. Management of community property.
- Art. 2347. Alienation of community property; concurrence of other spouse.
- Art. 2348. Renunciation of right to concur.
- Art. 2349. Donation of community property; concurrence of other spouse.
- Art. 2350. Alienation of movable assets of business
- Art. 2351. Alienation of registered movables.
- Art. 2352. Management and disposition of partnership and limited liability company interest
- Art. 2353. Unauthorized alienation of community property.
- Art. 2354. Liability for fraud or bad faith.
- Art. 2355. Judicial authorization to act without the consent of the other spouse
- Art. 2355.1. Judicial authorization to manage the community
SECTION 3--TERMINATION OF THE COMMUNITY
- Art. 2356. Causes of termination
- Art. 2357. Satisfaction of obligation after termination of regime
- Art. 2358. Claims for reimbursement between spouses
- Art. 2358.1. Source of reimbursement
- Art. 2359. Obligations; community or separate.
- Art. 2360. Community obligation.
- Art. 2361. Obligations incurred during marriage; presumption.
- Art. 2362. Alimentary obligation.
- Art. 2362.1. Obligation incurred in an action for divorce
- Art. 2363. Separate obligation
- Art. 2364. Satisfaction of separate obligation with community property or former community property.
- Art. 2364.1. Repealed by Acts 2009, No. 204, §3.
- Art. 2365. Satisfaction of community obligation with separate property
- Art. 2366. Use of community property or former community property for the benefit of separate property
- Art. 2367. Use of separate property for the benefit of community property
- Art. 2367.1. Use of separate property for the benefit of separate property
- Art. 2367.2. Component parts of separate property
- Art. 2367.3. Satisfaction of separate obligation with separate property
- Art. 2368. Increase of the value of separate property.
- Art. 2369. Accounting between spouses; prescription.
- Art. 2369.1. Application of co-ownership provisions
- Art. 2369.2. Ownership interest
- Art. 2369.3. Duty to preserve; standard of care
- Art. 2369.4. Alienation, encumbrance, or lease prohibited
- Art. 2369.5. Alienation of registered movables
- Art. 2369.6. Alienation, encumbrance, or lease of movable assets of former community enterprise
- Art. 2369.7. Court authorization to act alone
- Art. 2369.8. Right to partition; no exclusion by agreement; judicial partition
CHAPTER 3--SEPARATION OF PROPERTY REGIME
- Art. 2370. Separation of property regime.
- Art. 2371. Management of property.
- Art. 2372. Necessaries.
- Art. 2373. Expenses of the marriage.
- Art. 2374. Judgment of separation of property
- Art. 2375. Effect of judgment
- Art. 2376. Rights of creditors.
- Art. 2377. Arts. 2377 to 2431 Repealed by Acts 1978, No. 627, 6; Acts 1979, No. 709, 1
CHAPTER 4--MARITAL PORTION
- Art. 2432. Right to marital portion.
- Art. 2433. Incident of marriage; charge on the succession.
- Art. 2434. Quantum
- Art. 2435. Deduction of legacy.
- Art. 2436. Nonheritable right; prescription.
- Art. 2437. Periodic allowance.
TITLE VII--OF SALE
CHAPTER 1--OF THE NATURE AND FORM OF THE
CONTRACT OF SALE
- Art. 2438. Rules of other titles
- Art. 2439. Definition
- Art. 2440. Sale of immovable, method of making
- Art. 2441. Reserved]
- Art. 2442. Recordation of sale of immovable to affect third parties
- Art. 2443. Purchase of a thing already owned
- Art. 2444. Repealed by Acts 2012, No. 277, §2.
- Art. 2445. Reserved]
- Art. 2446. Reserved]
CHAPTER 2. OF PERSONS CAPABLE OF BUYING AND SELLING
CHAPTER 3. OF THINGS WHICH MAY BE SOLD
- Art. 2448. Things that may be sold
- Art. 2449. Reserved]
- Art. 2450. Sale of future things
- Art. 2451. Sale of a hope
- Art. 2452. Sale of the thing of another
- Art. 2453. Sale of thing pending litigation of ownership
- Art. 2454. Reserved]
- Art. 2455. Reserved]
CHAPTER 4. HOW THE CONTRACT OF SALE
IS TO BE PERFECTED
- Art. 2456. Transfer of ownership
- Art. 2457. Transfer of ownership; things not individualized
- Art. 2458. Sale by weight, tale or measure; lump sales
- Art. 2459. Reserved]
- Art. 2460. Sale on view or trial
- Art. 2461. Inclusion of accessories
- Art. 2462. Reserved]
- Art. 2463. Expenses
CHAPTER 5. OF THE PRICE OF THE CONTRACT OF SALE
- Art. 2464. Price, essential elements
- Art. 2465. Price left to determination by third person
- Art. 2466. No price fixed by the parties
CHAPTER 6. AT WHOSE RISK THE THING IS, AFTER
THE SALE IS COMPLETED
- Art. 2467. Transfer of risk
- Art. 2468. Reserved]
- Art. 2469. Reserved]
- Art. 2470. Reserved]
- Art. 2471. Reserved]
- Art. 2472. Reserved]
- Art. 2473. Reserved]
CHAPTER 7. OF THE OBLIGATIONS OF THE SELLER
- Art. 2474. Construction of ambiguities respecting obligations of seller
- Art. 2475. Seller's obligations of delivery and warranty.
- Art. 2476. Reserved]
- Art. 2477. Methods of making delivery
- Art. 2478. Reserved]
- Art. 2479. Reserved]
- Art. 2480. Retention of possession by seller, presumption of simulation
- Art. 2481. Incorporeals, method of making delivery
- Art. 2482. Things not in possession of seller
- Art. 2483. Costs of delivery and of removal
- Art. 2484. Place of delivery
- Art. 2485. Buyer's rights upon default, damages
- Art. 2486. Reserved]
- Art. 2487. Delivery excused until payment of price and for insolvency
- Art. 2488. Reserved]
- Art. 2489. Condition of thing at time of delivery
- Art. 2490. Reserved]
- Art. 2491. Immovables, extent of delivery
- Art. 2492. Sale of immovables at a price per measure
- Art. 2493. Reserved]
- Art. 2494. Sale of immovable for lump price
- Art. 2495. Sale of a certain and limited body or of a distinct object for a lump price
- Art. 2496. Reserved]
- Art. 2497. Restitution of price and expenses in case of rescission
- Art. 2498. Prescription of actions for supplement or diminution of price or for dissolution
- Art. 2499. Reserved]
CHAPTER 8. EVICTION
- Art. 2500. Eviction, definition, scope of warranty
- Art. 2501. Reserved]
- Art. 2502. Transfer of rights to a thing
- Art. 2503. Modification or exclusion of warranty, seller's liability for personal acts, restitution of price in case of eviction
- Art. 2504. Reserved]
- Art. 2505. Reserved]
- Art. 2506. Rights of buyer against seller in case of eviction
- Art. 2507. Restitution of full price despite deterioration, deduction of damage when benefit to buyer
- Art. 2508. Reserved]
- Art. 2509. Reimbursement to buyer for useful improvements, liability of seller in bad faith
- Art. 2510. Reserved]
- Art. 2511. Partial eviction, rights of buyer
- Art. 2512. Warranty against eviction from proceeds
- Art. 2513. Scope of warranty in sale of succession rights
- Art. 2514. Reserved]
- Art. 2515. Reserved]
- Art. 2516. Reserved]
- Art. 2517. Call in warranty, failure of buyer to call seller in warranty, suit to quiet possession
- Art. 2518. Reserved]
- Art. 2519. Reserved]
CHAPTER 9. REDHIBITION
- Art. 2520. Warranty against redhibitory defects
- Art. 2521. Defects that are made known to the buyer or that are apparent
- Art. 2522. Notice of existence of defect
- Art. 2523. Reserved]
- Art. 2524. Thing fit for ordinary use
- Art. 2525. Reserved]
- Art. 2526. Reserved]
- Art. 2527. Reserved]
- Art. 2528. Reserved]
- Art. 2529. Thing not of the kind specified in the contract
- Art. 2530. Defect must exist before delivery
- Art. 2531. Liability of seller who knew not of the defect
- Art. 2532. Return of the thing; destruction of the thing
- Art. 2533. Reserved]
- Art. 2534. Prescription
- Art. 2535. Reserved]
- Art. 2536. Reserved]
- Art. 2537. Judicial sales
- Art. 2538. Multiple sellers, multiple buyers, successors
- Art. 2539. Reserved]
- Art. 2540. Redhibitory vice of one of several matched things sold together
- Art. 2541. Reduction of the price
- Art. 2542. Reserved]
- Art. 2543. Reserved]
- Art. 2544. Reserved]
- Art. 2545. Liability of seller who knows of the defect; presumption of knowledge
- Art. 2546. Reserved]
- Art. 2547. Reserved]
- Art. 2548. Exclusion or limitation of warranty; subrogation
CHAPTER 10. OF THE OBLIGATIONS OF THE BUYER
- Art. 2549. Obligations of the buyer
- Art. 2550. Time and place of payment of price
- Art. 2551. Reserved]
- Art. 2552. Reserved]
- Art. 2553. Interest on price
- Art. 2554. Reserved]
- Art. 2555. Liability of the buyer who fails to take delivery
- Art. 2556. Reserved]
- Art. 2557. Eviction and threat of eviction as grounds for suspension of payment
- Art. 2558. Reserved]
- Art. 2559. Reserved]
- Art. 2560. Payment of the price before disturbance of possession
- Art. 2561. Dissolution of sale for nonpayment of price
- Art. 2562. Dissolution of sale of immovables for nonpayment of price; extension of time for payment
- Art. 2563. Payment of price after expiration of term but prior to default
- Art. 2564. Dissolution of sale of movables
- Art. 2565. Reserved]
- Art. 2566. Reserved]
CHAPTER 11. OF THE SALE WITH A RIGHT OF REDEMPTION
- Art. 2567. Right of redemption, definition
- Art. 2568. Limitation on duration
- Art. 2569. Redemption, presumption of security
- Art. 2570. Effect of failure to exercise right within time stipulated
- Art. 2571. Application of time limit against all persons including minors
- Art. 2572. Redemption against second purchaser
- Art. 2573. Reserved]
- Art. 2574. Buyer's benefit of discussion against creditors of the seller
- Art. 2575. Ownership of fruits and products pending redemption
- Art. 2576. Reserved]
- Art. 2577. Ownership of improvements and augmentations pending redemption
- Art. 2578. Liability for deterioration at the time of redemption
- Art. 2579. Reserved]
- Art. 2580. Reserved]
- Art. 2581. Reserved]
- Art. 2582. Reserved]
- Art. 2583. Reserved]
- Art. 2584. Multiple successors, applicability of rules governing lesion
- Art. 2585. Reserved]
- Art. 2586. Reserved]
- Art. 2587. Reimbursement to buyer on redemption
- Art. 2588. Encumbrances created by buyer
CHAPTER 12. RESCISSION FOR LESION BEYOND MOIETY
- Art. 2589. Rescission for lesion beyond moiety
- Art. 2590. Time of valuation for determination of lesion
- Art. 2591. Option of buyer to supplement price
- Art. 2592. Lesion, return of fruits by buyer and payment of interest by seller
- Art. 2593. Reserved]
- Art. 2594. Lesion, action against vendee who has resold the immovable
- Art. 2595. Peremption of action for lesion
- Art. 2596. Lesion, action against vendee who has granted a right on the immovable
- Art. 2597. Condition in which property is returned to seller; reimbursement of buyer for improvements
- Art. 2598. Reserved]
- Art. 2599. Buyer's right of retention pending reimbursement
- Art. 2600. Divisibility of action in lesion among joint sellers and successors, joinder
CHAPTER 13. SALES OF MOVABLES
- Art. 2601. Additional terms in acceptance of offer to sell a movable
- Art. 2602. Contract by conduct of the parties
- Art. 2603. Obligation to deliver conforming things
- Art. 2604. Buyer's right of inspection
- Art. 2605. Rejection of nonconforming things by the buyer
- Art. 2606. Buyer's acceptance of nonconforming things
- Art. 2607. Buyer may accept part of things delivered
- Art. 2608. Merchant buyer's duty upon rejection of things
- Art. 2609. Purchase of substitute things by the buyer
- Art. 2610. Cure of nonconformity
- Art. 2611. Resale by the seller
- Art. 2612. Deposit of the things by seller
- Art. 2613. Things in transit, ownership
- Art. 2614. Stoppage in transit
- Art. 2615. Judicial dissolution
- Art. 2616. Things in transit, risk of loss
- Art. 2617. Payment against documents
- Art. 2618. Reserved]
- Art. 2619. Reserved]
CHAPTER 14. AGREEMENTS PREPARATORY TO THE SALE
SECTION 1. OPTION
- Art. 2620. Option to buy or sell
- Art. 2621. Acceptance, when effective; option turns into contract to sell; rejection
- Art. 2622. Warranty of assignor
SECTION 2. CONTRACT TO SELL
SECTION 3. RIGHT OF FIRST REFUSAL
SECTION 4. EFFECTS
- Art. 2627. Right of first refusal, time for acceptance
- Art. 2628. Time limitation for option and right of first refusal
- Art. 2629. Effect against third persons
- Art. 2630. Indivisibility of right
- Art. 2631. Reserved]
- Art. 2632. Reserved]
- Art. 2633. Reserved]
- Art. 2634. Reserved]
- Art. 2635. Reserved]
- Art. 2636. Reserved]
- Art. 2637. Reserved]
- Art. 2638. Reserved]
- Art. 2639. Reserved]
- Art. 2640. Reserved]
- Art. 2641. Reserved]
CHAPTER 15. ASSIGNMENT OF RIGHTS
- Art. 2642. Assignability of rights
- Art. 2643. Assignment effective from the time of knowledge or notice
- Art. 2644. Performance by debtor before knowledge of assignment
- Art. 2645. Accessories included in assignment of right
- Art. 2646. Warranty of existence of debt, solvency of debtor
- Art. 2647. Reserved]
- Art. 2648. Scope of warranty of debtor's solvency
- Art. 2649. Assignor's knowledge of the debtor's insolvency; effects
- Art. 2650. Warranty in assignment of succession rights
- Art. 2651. Reserved]
- Art. 2652. Sale of litigious rights
- Art. 2653. Assignability prohibited by contract; exceptions
- Art. 2654. Documents evidencing the right
CHAPTER 16. OF THE GIVING IN PAYMENT
- Art. 2655. Giving in payment, definition
- Art. 2656. Delivery essential to a giving in payment
- Art. 2657. Giving in partial payment
- Art. 2658. Reserved]
- Art. 2659. Application of general rules of sale
TITLE VIII--OF EXCHANGE
- Art. 2660. Exchange, definition
- Art. 2661. Rights and obligations of the parties
- Art. 2662. Rights of party evicted
- Art. 2663. Rescission for lesion in contracts of exchange
- Art. 2664. Application of the rules of sale
- Art. 2665. [Reserved.]
- Art. 2666. [Reserved.]
- Art. 2667. [Reserved.]
TITLE IX. LEASE
CHAPTER 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- Art. 2668. Contract of lease defined
- Art. 2669. Relation with other titles
- Art. 2670. Contract to lease
- Art. 2671. Types of leases
- Art. 2672. Mineral lease
CHAPTER 2. ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS
SECTION 1. THE THING
SECTION 2. THE RENT
SECTION 3. THE TERM
- Art. 2678. Term
- Art. 2679. Limits of contractual freedom in fixing the term
- Art. 2680. Duration supplied by law; legal term
SECTION 4. FORM
CHAPTER 3. THE OBLIGATIONS
OF THE LESSOR AND THE LESSEE
SECTION 1. PRINCIPAL OBLIGATIONS
SECTION 2. DELIVERY
- Art. 2684. Obligations to deliver the thing at the agreed time and in good condition
- Art. 2685. Discrepancy between agreed and delivered quantity
SECTION 3. USE OF THE THING BY THE LESSEE
- Art. 2686. Misuse of the thing
- Art. 2687. Damage caused by fault
- Art. 2688. Obligation to inform lessor
- Art. 2689. Payment of taxes and other charges
SECTION 4. ALTERATIONS, REPAIRS, AND ADDITIONS
- Art. 2690. Alterations by the lessor prohibited
- Art. 2691. Lessor's obligation for repairs
- Art. 2692. Lessee's obligation to make repairs
- Art. 2693. Lessor's right to make repairs
- Art. 2694. Lessee's right to make repairs
- Art. 2695. Attachments, additions, or other improvements to leased thing
SECTION 5. LESSOR'S WARRANTIES
SUBSECTION 1. WARRANTY AGAINST VICES OR DEFECTS
- Art. 2696. Warranty against vices or defects
- Art. 2697. Warranty for unknown vices or defects
- Art. 2698. Persons protected by warranty
- Art. 2699. Waiver of warranty for vices or defects
SUBSECTION 2. WARRANTY OF PEACEFUL POSSESSION
- Art. 2700. Warranty of peaceful possession
- Art. 2701. Call in warranty
- Art. 2702. Disturbance by third persons without claim of right
SECTION 6. PAYMENT OF RENT
- Art. 2703. When and where rent is due
- Art. 2704. Nonpayment of rent
- Art. 2705. Abatement of rent for unforeseen loss of crops
- Art. 2706. Loss of crop rent
SECTION 7. LESSOR'S SECURITY RIGHTS
- Art. 2707. Lessor's privilege
- Art. 2708. Lessor's privilege over sublessee's movables
- Art. 2709. Lessor's right to seize movables of third persons
- Art. 2710. Enforcement of the lessor's privilege
SECTION 8. TRANSFER OF INTEREST BY THE LESSOR OR THE LESSEE
- Art. 2711. Transfer of thing does not terminate lease
- Art. 2712. Transfer of immovable subject to unrecorded lease
- Art. 2713. Lessee's right to sublease, assign, or encumber
CHAPTER 4. TERMINATION AND DISSOLUTION
SECTION 1. RULES APPLICABLE TO ALL LEASES
- Art. 2714. Expropriation; loss or destruction
- Art. 2715. Partial destruction, loss, expropriation, or other substantial impairment of use
- Art. 2716. Termination of lease granted by a usufructuary
- Art. 2717. Death of lessor or lessee
- Art. 2718. Leases with reservation of right to terminate
- Art. 2719. Dissolution for other causes
SECTION 2. LEASES WITH A FIXED TERM
- Art. 2720. Termination of lease with a fixed term
- Art. 2721. Reconduction
- Art. 2722. Term of reconducted agricultural lease
- Art. 2723. Term of reconducted nonagricultural lease
- Art. 2724. Continuity of the reconducted lease
- Art. 2725. Extension
- Art. 2726. Amendment
SECTION 3. LEASES WITH INDETERMINATE TERM
- Art. 2727. Termination of lease with an indeterminate term
- Art. 2728. Notice of termination; timing
- Art. 2729. Notice of termination; form
CHAPTER 5. OF THE LETTING OUT OF LABOR OR INDUSTRY
SECTION 1--OF THE HIRING OF SERVANTS AND LABORERS
- Art. 2746. Limited duration of contract.
- Art. 2747. Contract of servant terminable at will of parties.
- Art. 2748. Contract of farm or factory laborer, restrictions on termination.
- Art. 2749. Liability for dismissal of laborer without cause.
- Art. 2750. Liability of laborer leaving employment without cause.
SECTION 2--OF CARRIERS AND WATERMEN
- Art. 2751. Obligations of carriers and watermen
- Art. 2752. Liability for things delivered for shipment.
- Art. 2753. Birth of child during sea voyage.
- Art. 2754. Liability for loss or damage.
- Art. 2755. Master's and crew's privilege on vessel for payment of wages.
SECTION 3--OF CONSTRUCTING BUILDINGS ACCORDING TO
PLOTS, AND OTHER WORKS BY THE JOB, AND
OF FURNISHING MATERIALS
- Art. 2756. Building by plot and work by job, definitions.
- Art. 2757. Agreement to furnish work or materials or both.
- Art. 2758. Destruction of work before delivery, liability of contractor furnishing materials.
- Art. 2759. Destruction of work before delivery, liability of contractor furnishing work only.
- Art. 2760. Destruction of work before delivery, contractor's right to payment of salary.
- Art. 2761. Delivery of work in separate parts.
- Art. 2762. Liability of contractor for damages due to badness of workmanship.
- Art. 2763. Changes or extensions of original plans, effect.
- Art. 2764. Substantial and necessary alterations.
- Art. 2765. Cancellation of contract by owner.
- Art. 2766. Termination of contract by death of workman.
- Art. 2767. Payment to heirs of contractor for work or materials completed.
- Art. 2768. Contractor's liability for acts of employees.
- Art. 2769. Contractor's liability for non-compliance with contract.
- Art. 2770. Workmen employed by contractor, rights against owner.
- Art. 2771. Masons, carpenters and other artificers as contractors.
- Art. 2772. Repealed
- Art. 2773. Repealed
- Art. 2774. Repealed
- Art. 2775. Repealed
- Art. 2776. Repealed
- Art. 2777. Privilege of workmen on ships and boats.
TITLE X. ANNUITIES
CHAPTER 1. ANNUITY CONTRACT
- Art. 2778. Annuity contract; definition
- Art. 2779. Applicability of the rules governing obligations
- Art. 2780. Recipient of payments
- Art. 2781. Annuity for life or time period
- Art. 2782. Termination of annuity; absence of a designated term
- Art. 2783. Assignable and heritable rights and obligations
- Art. 2784. Annuity in favor of successive recipients
- Art. 2785. Annuity contract in favor of several recipients of payments
- Art. 2786. Existence of recipient
CHAPTER 2. ANNUITY CHARGE
- Art. 2787. Annuity charge
- Art. 2788. Annuity charge; recordation
- Art. 2789. Applicable law
- Art. 2790. Annuity charge for life or time period
- Art. 2791. Enforcement of the annuity charge
TITLE XI--PARTNERSHIP
CHAPTER 1--GENERAL PRINCIPLES
- Art. 2801. Partnership; definition.
- Art. 2802. Applicability of rules of conventional obligations.
- Art. 2803. Participation of partners.
- Art. 2804. Participation in one category only.
- Art. 2805. Name of the partnership.
- Art. 2806. Ownership of immovable property; retroactivity of partnership's existence; acquisition of immovable property prior to partnership's existence
- Art. 2807. Decisions affecting the partnership.
CHAPTER 2--OBLIGATIONS AND RIGHTS OF PARTNERS
TOWARD EACH OTHER AND TOWARD THE PARTNERSHIP
- Art. 2808. Obligation of a partner to contribute.
- Art. 2809. Fiduciary duty; activities prejudicial to the partnership.
- Art. 2810. Other rights not prejudiced.
- Art. 2811. Partner as creditor of the partnership.
- Art. 2812. The sharing of a partner's interest with a third person.
- Art. 2813. The right of a partner to obtain information.
CHAPTER 3--RELATIONS OF THE PARTNERSHIP AND THE
PARTNERS WITH THIRD PERSONS
- Art. 2814. Partner as mandatary of the partnership
- Art. 2815. Effect of loss stipulation on third persons.
- Art. 2816. Contract by partner in his own name; effect on the partnership.
- Art. 2817. Partnership debts; liability.
CHAPTER 4. CESSATION OF MEMBERSHIP
SECTION 1. CAUSES OF CESSATION
- Art. 2818. Causes of cessation of membership
- Art. 2819. Seizure of the interest of a partner.
- Art. 2820. Expulsion of a partner for just cause.
- Art. 2821. Partnership constituted for term; withdrawal.
- Art. 2822. Partnership without term; withdrawal.
SECTION 2--EFFECTS OF CESSATION OF MEMBERSHIP AND
RIGHTS OF THE FORMER PARTNER
- Art. 2823. Rights of a partner after withdrawal.
- Art. 2824. Payment of interest of partner.
- Art. 2825. Judicial determination of amount.
CHAPTER 5--TERMINATION OF A PARTNERSHIP
SECTION 1--CAUSES OF TERMINATION
- Art. 2826. Termination of a partnership; causes
- Art. 2827. Continuation of a partnership.
- Art. 2828. Continuation for liquidation; sole proprietorship.
- Art. 2829. Change in number or identity of partners.
SECTION 2--EFFECTS OF TERMINATION OF
PARTNERSHIP AND RIGHTS OF FORMER PARTNERS
- Art. 2830. Effects of termination; authority of partners.
- Art. 2831. Termination of the partnership; rights of third parties.
CHAPTER 6--DISSOLUTION, LIQUIDATION, AND
DIVISION OF ASSETS
- Art. 2832. Creditors of the partnership; preference.
- Art. 2833. Division of the partnership assets.
- Art. 2834. Liquidation of the partnership.
- Art. 2835. Final liquidation.
CHAPTER 7--PARTNERSHIP IN COMMENDAM
- Art. 2836. Provisions applicable to partnerships in commendam.
- Art. 2837. Partnership in commendam; definition.
- Art. 2838. Name; designation as partnership in commendam.
- Art. 2839. Name of partner in commendam; use
- Art. 2840. Partner in commendam; liability; agreed contribution.
- Art. 2841. Contract form; registry.
- Art. 2842. Restrictions on the right of a partner in commendam to receive contributions.
- Art. 2843. Restrictions on the partner in commendam with regard to management or administration of the partnership.
- Art. 2844. Liability of the partner in commendam to third parties
- Art. 2845. Repealed by Acts 1995, No. 847, 5, eff. June 27, 1995.
- Art. 2846. Repealed by Acts 1995, No. 847, 5, eff. June 27, 1995.
- Art. 2847. Repealed by Acts 1995, No. 847, 5, eff. June 27, 1995.
- Art. 2848. Repealed by Acts 1995, No. 847, 5, eff. June 27, 1995.
TITLE XII. LOAN
CHAPTER 1. LOAN FOR USE (COMMODATUM)
- Art. 2891. Loan for use; definition
- Art. 2892. Applicability of the rules governing obligations
- Art. 2893. Things that may be lent
- Art. 2894. Preservation and limited use
- Art. 2895. Ordinary wear and tear; damage caused by the failure to keep, preserve, or use as a prudent administrator
- Art. 2896. Use for longer time or in other manner
- Art. 2897. Heritability of contract obligations.Loss caused by fortuitous event
- Art. 2898. Valuation of the thing
- Art. 2899. Reimbursement for expenses
- Art. 2900. Liability of joint borrowers
- Art. 2901. Retaking before or after conclusion of use or expiration of time
- Art. 2902. Lender's liability for damage caused by defects in the thing
- Art. 2903. Liberative prescription
CHAPTER 2. LOAN FOR CONSUMPTION (MUTUUM)
- Art. 2904. Loan for consumption; definition
- Art. 2905. Ownership and risk of loss of the thing lent
- Art. 2906. Loan of nonfungible things
- Art. 2907. Loan of money or commodities
- Art. 2908. Lender's liability for damage caused by defects in the thing
- Art. 2909. Inability to demand performance until expiration of term
- Art. 2910. Substance and place of performance
- Art. 2911. Payment of value when restitution is impossible
- Art. 2912. Payment of interest in case of default
CHAPTER 3. LOAN ON INTEREST
TITLE XIII. DEPOSIT AND SEQUESTRATION
CHAPTER 1. DEPOSIT
- Art. 2926. Deposit, definition
- Art. 2927. Kinds of deposit.
- Art. 2928. Nature of the contract
- Art. 2929. Formation of the contract; delivery
- Art. 2930. Diligence and prudence required
- Art. 2931. Use of the thing deposited
- Art. 2932. Use of consumable
- Art. 2933. Return of the thing deposited
- Art. 2934. Delivery of value received
- Art. 2935. Delivery of civil and natural fruits
- Art. 2936. Proof of ownership of the thing deposited not required; a stolen thing
- Art. 2937. Place and expense of return
- Art. 2938. Time of return
- Art. 2939. Retention of the deposit
- Art. 2940. Reimbursement of the depositary
CHAPTER 2. DEPOSIT WITH INNKEEPERS
- Art. 2941. Obligation of innkeeper to accept the deposit
- Art. 2942. Innkeeper as compensated depositary
- Art. 2943. Availability of a safe
- Art. 2944. Damaged or stolen things
- Art. 2945. Limitation of innkeeper's liability
CHAPTER 3. CONVENTIONAL SEQUESTRATION
- Art. 2946. Conventional sequestration; definition
- Art. 2947. Applicable law
- Art. 2948. Termination of conventional sequestration by the depositary
CHAPTER 4. JUDICIAL SEQUESTRATION
TITLE XIV--OF ALEATORY CONTRACTS
TITLE XV. REPRESENTATION AND MANDATE
CHAPTER 1. REPRESENTATION
- Art. 2985. Representation
- Art. 2986. The authority of the representative
- Art. 2987. Procuration defined; person to whom addressed
- Art. 2988. Applicability of the rules of mandate
CHAPTER 2. MANDATE
SECTION 1. GENERAL PRINCIPLES
- Art. 2989. Mandate defined
- Art. 2990. Applicability of the rules governing obligations
- Art. 2991. Interest served
- Art. 2992. Onerous or gratuitous contract
- Art. 2993. Form
- Art. 2994. General authority
- Art. 2995. Incidental, necessary, or professional acts
- Art. 2996. Authority to alienate, acquire, encumber, or lease
- Art. 2997. Express authority required
- Art. 2998. Contracting with one's self
- Art. 2999. Person of limited capacity
- Art. 3000. Mandatary of both parties
SECTION 2. RELATIONS BETWEEN THE PRINCIPAL
AND THE MANDATARY
- Art. 3001. Mandatary's duty of performance; standard of care
- Art. 3002. Gratuitous mandate; liability of a mandatary
- Art. 3003. Obligation to provide information
- Art. 3004. Obligation to deliver; right of retention
- Art. 3005. Interest on money used by mandatary
- Art. 3006. Fulfillment of the mandate by the mandatary
- Art. 3007. Mandatary's liability for acts of the substitute
- Art. 3008. Liability for acts beyond authority; ratification
- Art. 3009. Liability of multiple mandataries
- Art. 3010. Performance of obligations contracted by the mandatary
- Art. 3011. Advantageous performance despite divergence from authority
- Art. 3012. Reimbursement of expenses and remuneration
- Art. 3013. Compensation for loss sustained by the mandatary
- Art. 3014. Interest on sums expended by the mandatary
- Art. 3015. Liability of several principals
SECTION 3. RELATIONS BETWEEN THE PRINCIPAL, THE
MANDATARY, AND THIRD PERSONS
Subsection A. Relations Between the Mandatary and Third Persons
- Art. 3016. Disclosed mandate and principal
- Art. 3017. Undisclosed mandate
- Art. 3018. Disclosed mandate; undisclosed principal
- Art. 3019. Liability when authority is exceeded
Subsection B. Relations Between the Principal and Third Persons
- Art. 3020. Obligations of the principal to third persons
- Art. 3021. Putative mandatary
- Art. 3022. Disclosed mandate or principal; third person bound
- Art. 3023. Undisclosed mandate or principal; obligations of third person
SECTION 4. TERMINATION OF THE MANDATE AND
OF THE AUTHORITY OF THE MANDATARY
- Art. 3024. Termination of the mandate and of the mandatary's authority
- Art. 3025. Termination by principal
- Art. 3026. Incapacity of the principal
- Art. 3027. Reliance on public records
- Art. 3028. Rights of third persons without notice of revocation
- Art. 3029. Termination by the mandatary
- Art. 3030. Acts of the mandatary after principal's death
- Art. 3031. Contracts made after termination of the mandate or the mandatary's authority
- Art. 3032. Obligation to account
- Art. 3033. Blank
- Art. 3034. Blank
TITLE XVI. SURETYSHIP
CHAPTER 1. NATURE AND EXTENT OF SURETYSHIP
- Art. 3035. Definition of suretyship
- Art. 3036. Obligations for which suretyship may be established
- Art. 3037. Surety ostensibly bound as a principal with another; effect of knowledge of the creditor
- Art. 3038. Formal requirements of suretyship
- Art. 3039. Suretyship requires no formal acceptance
- Art. 3040. Rules may be varied
CHAPTER 2. KINDS OF SURETYSHIP
- Art. 3041. Kinds of suretyship
- Art. 3042. Commercial suretyship
- Art. 3043. Legal suretyship
- Art. 3044. Ordinary suretyship; interpretation
CHAPTER 3.- THE EFFECTS OF SURETYSHIP BETWEEN
THE SURETY AND CREDITOR
- Art. 3045. Liability of sureties to creditor; division and discussion abolished
- Art. 3046. Defenses available to surety
CHAPTER 4. THE EFFECTS OF SURETYSHIP BETWEEN
THE SURETY AND PRINCIPAL OBLIGOR
- Art. 3047. Rights of the surety
- Art. 3048. Surety's right of subrogation
- Art. 3049. Surety's right of reimbursement for payment of obligation
- Art. 3050. Surety's right of reimbursement for payment of obligation not owed
- Art. 3051. Payment by debtor without notice of payment by surety
- Art. 3052. Limitation on right of surety to recover what he paid creditor
- Art. 3053. Surety's right to require security
- Art. 3054. Failure to provide security
CHAPTER 5. THE EFFECTS OF SURETYSHIP AMONG
SEVERAL SURETIES
- Art. 3055. Liability among co-sureties
- Art. 3056. Right of contribution among co-sureties
- Art. 3057. Limitation upon right of contribution
CHAPTER 6. TERMINATION OR EXTINCTION OF SURETYSHIP
- Art. 3058. Extinction of the suretyship
- Art. 3059. Extinction of principal obligation
- Art. 3060. Prescription of the surety's obligation, right of reimbursement, and contribution
- Art. 3061. Termination of suretyship
- Art. 3062. Effect of modifications of principal obligation
CHAPTER 7. LEGAL SURETYSHIP
- Art. 3063. Commercial suretyship rules apply to legal suretyship
- Art. 3064. Supplementary nature of this Chapter
- Art. 3065. Qualifications of legal surety; evidenced by affidavit; lack thereof not a defense
- Art. 3066. Legal suretyship to conform to law
- Art. 3067. Permissible variations
- Art. 3068. Pledge of funds in lieu of suretyship
- Art. 3069. Necessity for judgment against legal surety
- Art. 3070. Right to demand new security
TITLE XVII. COMPROMISE
- Art. 3071. Compromise; definition
- Art. 3072. Formal requirements; effects
- Art. 3073. Capacity and form
- Art. 3074. Lawful object
- Art. 3075. Relative effect
- Art. 3076. Scope of the act
- Art. 3077. Reserved
- Art. 3078. After-acquired rights
- Art. 3079. Tender and acceptance of less than the amount of the claim
- Art. 3080. Preclusive effect of compromise
- Art. 3081. Effect on novation
- Art. 3082. Rescission
- Art. 3083. Compromise suspends prescription
TITLE XVIII--OF RESPITE
- Art. 3084. Repealed
- Art. 3085. Repealed
- Art. 3086. Repealed
- Art. 3087. Repealed
- Art. 3088. Repealed
- Art. 3089. Repealed
- Art. 3090. Repealed
- Art. 3091. Repealed
- Art. 3092. Repealed
- Art. 3093. Repealed
- Art. 3094. Repealed
- Art. 3095. Repealed
- Art. 3096. Repealed
- Art. 3097. Repealed.
- Art. 3098. Repealed
TITLE XIX--OF ARBITRATION
- Art. 3099. Submission to arbitrate.
- Art. 3100. Writing necessary.
- Art. 3101. Capacity of parties; authority of mandataries, tutors and curators.
- Art. 3102. Scope of submission.
- Art. 3103. Arbitration of damages incurred by public offense.
- Art. 3104. Power of arbitrators.
- Art. 3105. Duration of power of arbitrators; prescription
- Art. 3106. Penal clauses in submission.
- Art. 3107. Capacity of arbitrators.
- Art. 3108. Repealed by Acts 1979, No. 709, 2.
- Art. 3109. Arbitrators and amicable compounders.
- Art. 3110. Powers of arbitrators and amicable compounders.
- Art. 3111. Oath of arbitrators.
- Art. 3112. Presentation and proof of claims by parties.
- Art. 3113. Time, place and notice of hearing.
- Art. 3114. Attendance of parties and witnesses.
- Art. 3115. Attendance and swearing in of witnesses.
- Art. 3116. Disagreement among arbitrators; umpire.
- Art. 3117. Nomination of umpire.
- Art. 3118. Appointment of umpire.
- Art. 3119. Oath of umpire.
- Art. 3120. Time for decision of arbitrators.
- Art. 3121. Arbitrators acting in excess of power, effect.
- Art. 3122. Scope of arbitrators' authority.
- Art. 3123. Award null after time limit.
- Art. 3124. Extension of time for making award.
- Art. 3125. Award made prior to time specified for examination.
- Art. 3126. Participation in proceedings; signature of award.
- Art. 3127. Amount of award.
- Art. 3128. Interest and costs
- Art. 3129. Approval of award by judge.
- Art. 3130. Appeal from award; prepayment and repayment of penalty.
- Art. 3131. Retraction or change of award prohibited.
- Art. 3132. Termination of arbitration.
TITLE XX–SECURITY
- Art. 3133. Liability of an obligor for his obligations
- Art. 3133.1. Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 281, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.
- Art. 3134. Ratable treatment of creditors
- Art. 3135. Limitations upon recourse
- Art. 3136. Security defined
- Art. 3137. Personal or real security
- Art. 3138. Kinds of security
- Art. 3139. Law governing security interest
- Art. 3140. Nullity of agreement of forfeiture
TITLE XX-A. PLEDGE
CHAPTER 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- Art. 3141. Pledge defined
- Art. 3142. Property susceptible of pledge
- Art. 3143. Pledge of property susceptible of encumbrance by security interest
- Art. 3144. Accessory nature of pledge
- Art. 3145. Preference afforded by pledge
- Art. 3146. Obligations for which pledge may be given
- Art. 3147. Pledge securing obligation that is not for the payment of money
- Art. 3148. Pledge securing an obligation of another person
- Art. 3149. Formal requirements of contract of pledge
- Art. 3150. Acceptance
- Art. 3151. Power to pledge
- Art. 3152. Delivery and possession of thing pledged
- Art. 3153. Delivery of incorporeal rights
- Art. 3154. Things subject to pawn
- Art. 3155. Incorporeal movables
- Art. 3156. Claims against other persons
- Art. 3157. Privilege and preference of pledge creditor
- Art. 3158. Enforcement of pledge of a movable
- Art. 3159. Acts of pledge in favor of banks
- Art. 3160. Pledge of obligation of a third person
- Art. 3161. Performance by obligor of a pledged obligation
- Art. 3162. Delivery to creditor or to third person
- Art. 3163. Partial payment of debt secured by pledge of several things
- Art. 3164. Right of retention until payment of debt
- Art. 3165. Rights of pledgee on default of debtor; procedure
- Art. 3166. Ownership of thing pledged
- Art. 3167. Pledgee's liability for loss or decay of thing pledged; reimbursement of expenses of preservation
CHAPTER 2. THE PLEDGE OF THE LESSOR'S RIGHTS IN THE
LEASE OF AN IMMOVABLE AND ITS RENTS
- Art. 3168. Ownership of fruits of thing pledged
- Art. 3169. Imputation of interest earned by credit pledged
- Art. 3170. Pledgee's right to enforce payment of credit pledged; imputation of proceeds
- Art. 3171. Indivisibility of pawn as to heirs of debtor and creditor
- Art. 3172. Surplus or deficiency after sale
- Art. 3173. Debtor taking pledge without creditor's consent
- Art. 3174. Rights of creditor deceived as to pledge
- Art. 3175. Acquisitive prescription of pledge impossible
- Art. 3176. Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 281, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.
- Art. 3177. Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 281, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.
- Art. 3178. Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 281, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.
- Art. 3179. Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 281, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.
- Art. 3180. Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 281, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.
- Art. 3181. Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 281, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.
TITLE XXI. OF PRIVILEGES
CHAPTER 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- Art. 3182. Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 281, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.
- Art. 3183. Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 281, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.
- Art. 3184. Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 281, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.
- Art. 3185. Privileges established only by law, stricti juris.
CHAPTER 2--OF THE SEVERAL KINDS OF PRIVILEGES
- Art. 3186. Privilege, definition.
- Art. 3187. Basis of preferences among privileges.
- Art. 3188. Concurrent privileges.
- Art. 3189. Property affected by privileges.
CHAPTER 3--OF PRIVILEGES ON MOVABLES
SECTION 1--OF GENERAL PRIVILEGES ON MOVABLES
- Art. 3191. General privileges on all movables, enumeration and ranking.
- Art. 3192. Funeral charges, definition.
- Art. 3193. Reduction of funeral charges of insolvent decedent.
- Art. 3194. Limitation in event of reduction.
- Art. 3195. Law charges, definition.
- Art. 3196. Costs which enjoy privilege.
- Art. 3197. Costs for the general benefit of creditors.
- Art. 3198. Costs not taxed in suit.
- Art. 3199. Last sickness, definition.
- Art. 3200. Chronic sickness.
- Art. 3201. Maximum period of privileged expenses.
- Art. 3202. List of expenses privileged.
- Art. 3203. Amount due for expenses, fixed by contract or by judge.
- Art. 3204. Last sickness of debtor's children.
- Art. 3205. Servants, definition.
- Art. 3206. Prescription of action; extent of privilege.
- Art. 3207. Wages recoverable but not privileged.
- Art. 3208. Supplies furnished by retail dealers.
- Art. 3209. Prescription of action; extent of privilege.
- Art. 3210. Wholesale dealers.
- Art. 3211. Innkeepers and masters of boarding houses.
- Art. 3212. Teachers and preceptors.
- Art. 3213. Extent of privilege for supplies.
- Art. 3214. Clerks and secretaries, extent and rank of privilege for salaries.
- Art. 3215. Repealed by Acts 1979, No. 709, 2.
SECTION 2--OF THE PRIVILEGES ON PARTICULAR MOVABLES
- Art. 3216. Special privileges on movables.
- Art. 3217. List of special privileges on particular movables.
- Art. 3218. Repealed by Acts 2004, No. 821, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2005.
- Art. 3219. Method of enforcement of lessor's privilege
- Art. 3220. Privilege of pledgee.
- Art. 3221. Enforcement of pledge
- Art. 3222. Privilege of depositor on thing deposited.
- Art. 3223. Depositor's privilege on price in case of sale.
- Art. 3224. Preservation of property of another.
- Art. 3225. Rights of pledge and retention against owner.
- Art. 3226. Right of preference against creditors.
- Art. 3227. Vendor's privilege on movables; agricultural products of the United States.
- Art. 3228. Loss of privilege by sale with other property of purchaser.
- Art. 3229. Vendor's claim for restitution.
- Art. 3230. Restitution dependent on identification.
- Art. 3231. Restitution of things easily recognized.
§6--OF THE PRIVILEGE OF THE INNKEEPER ON THE
EFFECTS OF THE TRAVELER
- Art. 3232. Innkeepers, definition.
- Art. 3233. Innkeepers' rights on property of guests.
- Art. 3234. Property covered by innkeepers' privilege.
- Art. 3235. Travelers, definition.
- Art. 3236. Sale or donation of unclaimed and unredeemed property, procedure.
SECTION 3--OF THE PRIVILEGE ON SHIPS AND MERCHANDISE
- Art. 3237. Privileges on ships and vessels, enumeration and ranking; prescription.
- Art. 3238. Proportionate payment to creditors of same rank.
- Art. 3239. Right of pursuit after sale of ship.
- Art. 3240. Privilege on price of adjudication in case of forced sale.
- Art. 3241. Voluntary sale, distinction between sale in port or on voyage.
- Art. 3242. Voluntary sale of ship in port, rights of privileged creditors.
- Art. 3243. Loss of privilege after voyage in name of purchaser.
- Art. 3244. Voluntary sale of ship while on voyage, rights of privileged creditors.
- Art. 3245. Voyage, definition.
- Art. 3246. Captain's privilege on cargo for freight charges.
- Art. 3247. Privilege of consignee or agent on merchandise consigned.
- Art. 3248. Rights of consignor on insolvency of consignee or agent.
CHAPTER 4-OF PRIVILEGES ON IMMOVABLES
- Art. 3249. Special privileges on immovables
- Art. 3250. Extent of vendor's privilege.
- Art. 3251. Successive sales, preference among vendors
CHAPTER 5--OF PRIVILEGES WHICH EMBRACE BOTH
MOVABLES AND IMMOVABLES
- Art. 3252. General privileges on both movables and immovables.
- Art. 3253. Order of payment of privileges; debtor's movables taken before immovables.
CHAPTER 6--OF THE ORDER IN WHICH PRIVILEGED
CREDITORS ARE TO BE PAID
- Art. 3254. Special privileges prime general privileges on movables; ranking among general privileges when movables sufficient.
- Art. 3255. Order of payment when available movables insufficient.
- Art. 3256. Lessor's privilege primed by costs of sale.
- Art. 3257. Lessor's privilege primed by funeral charges.
- Art. 3258. Lessor's privilege primes other general privileges.
- Art. 3259. Lessor's privilege on crops primed by supplies and labor.
- Art. 3260. Ranking between privileges of lessor and depositor.
- Art. 3261. Depositor's privilege and other privileges.
- Art. 3262. Privilege for expenses of preservation and other privileges.
- Art. 3263. Vendor's privilege and other privileges.
- Art. 3264. Privilege of innkeepers.
- Art. 3265. Privilege of carriers.
- Art. 3266. Immovables liable when movables insufficient.
- Art. 3267. Special privileges on immovables and other privileges
- Art. 3268. Repealed
- Art. 3269. Order of payment out of immovables; distribution of loss among mortgage creditors.
- Art. 3270. Effect of priorities among privileges.
CHAPTER 7--HOW PRIVILEGES ARE
PRESERVED AND RECORDED
- Art. 3271. Vendor's privilege on immovables, recordation.
- Art. 3272. Repealed
- Art. 3273. Recordation, effect against third persons.
- Art. 3274. Time and place of recordation; effectiveness.
- Art. 3275. Repealed by Acts 2016, No. 227, §2.
- Art. 3276. Priority of claims against succession arising after death.
CHAPTER 8--OF THE MANNER IN WHICH
PRIVILEGES ARE EXTINGUISHED
TITLE XXII--MORTGAGES
CHAPTER 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- Art. 3278. Mortgage defined
- Art. 3279. Rights created by mortgage
- Art. 3280. Mortgage is an indivisible real right
- Art. 3281. Mortgage established only in authorized cases
- Art. 3282. Accessory nature
- Art. 3283. Kinds of mortgages
- Art. 3284. Conventional, legal, and judicial mortgages
- Art. 3285. General and special mortgages distinguished
- Art. 3286. Property susceptible of mortgage
CHAPTER 2. CONVENTIONAL MORTGAGES
- Art. 3287. Conventional mortgage
- Art. 3288. Requirements of contract of mortgage
- Art. 3289. Acceptance
- Art. 3290. Power to mortgage
- Art. 3291. Presumption that things are subject to conventional mortgage
- Art. 3292. Mortgage of future property permitted in certain cases
- Art. 3293. Obligations for which mortgage may be established
- Art. 3294. Mortgage securing obligation that is not for the payment of money
- Art. 3295. Mortgage securing another's obligation
- Art. 3296. Right of mortgagor to raise defenses
- Art. 3297. Restrictions upon recourse of mortgagee
- Art. 3298. Mortgage may secure future obligations
CHAPTER 3. JUDICIAL AND LEGAL MORTGAGES
- Art. 3299. Judicial and legal mortgages
- Art. 3300. Creation of judicial mortgage
- Art. 3301. Creation of legal mortgage
- Art. 3302. Property burdened by judicial and legal mortgages
- Art. 3303. Nature of judicial and legal mortgages
- Art. 3304. Judgment; suspensive appeal
- Art. 3305. Judgments of other jurisdictions
- Art. 3306. Judgment against person deceased
CHAPTER 4. THE EFFECT AND RANK OF MORTGAGES
- Art. 3307. The effect and rank of mortgages
- Art. 3308. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.
- Art. 3309. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.
- Art. 3310. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.
- Art. 3311. Mortgage securing several obligations
- Art. 3312. Transfer of the secured obligation
- Art. 3313. Transfer does not imply subordination
- Art. 3314. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.
CHAPTER 5. THIRD POSSESSORS
- Art. 3315. Third possessor defined
- Art. 3316. Liability of third possessor
- Art. 3317. Rights of third possessor
- Art. 3318. Right of third possessor for costs of improvements
CHAPTER 6. EXTINCTION OF MORTGAGES
CHAPTER 7. INSCRIPTION OF MORTGAGES AND PRIVILEGES
- Art. 3320. Recordation; limits of effectiveness
- Art. 3321. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.
- Art. 3322. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.
- Art. 3323. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.
- Art. 3324. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.
- Art. 3325. Paraph of notes or written obligations secured by a mortgage, privilege, or other encumbrance
- Art. 3326. Effect of mortgage filed after death of mortgagor
- Art. 3327. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.
- Art. 3328. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.
- Art. 3329. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.
- Art. 3330. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.
- Art. 3331. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.
- Art. 3332. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.
- Art. 3333. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.
- Art. 3334. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.
- Art. 3335. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.
- Art. 3336. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.
- Art. 3337. Cancellation of mortgages and privileges from the records
TITLE XXII-A-OF REGISTRY
CHAPTER 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- Art. 3338. Instruments creating real rights in immovables; recordation required to affect third persons
- Art. 3339. Matters not of record
- Art. 3340. Effect of recording other documents
- Art. 3341. Limits on the effect of recordation
- Art. 3342. Parties to an instrument are precluded from raising certain matters
- Art. 3343. Third person defined
- Art. 3344. Refusal for failure of original signature or proper certification; effect of recordation; necessity of proof of signature recordation of a duplicate
- Art. 3345. Recordation of a duplicate
- Art. 3346. Place of recordation; duty of the recorder
- Art. 3347. Effect of recordation arises upon filing
- Art. 3348. Time of filing; determination
- Art. 3349. Failure to endorse; effect
- Art. 3350. Presumption as to time of filing
- Art. 3351. Ancient documents; presumptions
- Art. 3352. Recorded acts; required information
- Art. 3353. Effect of indefinite or incomplete name
CHAPTER 2. MORTGAGE RECORDS
SECTION 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- Art. 3354. Applicability
- Art. 3355. Mortgage, pledge, or privilege affecting property in several parishes
- Art. 3356. Transfers, amendments, and releases
- Art. 3357. Duration; general rule
- Art. 3358. Duration of recordation of certain mortgages, pledges, and privileges
- Art. 3359. Duration of recordation of judicial mortgage
- Art. 3360. Duration of recordation of mortgage given by tutor, curator, or succession representative
- Art. 3361. Effect of amendment
- Art. 3362. Method of reinscription
- Art. 3363. Method of reinscription exclusive
- Art. 3364. Effect of timely recordation of notice of reinscription
- Art. 3365. Effect of request recorded after cessation of effect of recordation
SECTION 3. CANCELLATION
- Art. 3366. Cancellation upon written request; form and content
- Art. 3367. Cancellation of recordation after effect of recordation has ceased
- Art. 3368. Cancellation of prescribed judicial mortgage
- Art. 3369. Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 1132, 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.
- Art. 3370. Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 1132, 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.
- Art. 3397. Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 1132, 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.
- Art. 3398. Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 1132, 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.
- Art. 3399. Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 1132, 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.
- Art. 3400. Arts 3400 to 3404 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
- Art. 3405. Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 1132, 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.
- Art. 3406. Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 1132, 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.
- Art. 3407. Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 1132, 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.
- Art. 3408. Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 1132, 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.
- Art. 3409. Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 1132, 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.
- Art. 3410. Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 1132, 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.
- Art. 3411. Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 1132, 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.
TITLE XXIII--OCCUPANCY AND POSSESSION
CHAPTER 1--OCCUPANCY
- Art. 3412. Occupancy
- Art. 3413. Wild animals, birds, fish, and shellfish
- Art. 3414. Loss of ownership of wildlife
- Art. 3415. Wildlife in enclosures
- Art. 3416. Tamed wild animals
- Art. 3417. Domestic animals
- Art. 3418. Abandoned things
- Art. 3419. Lost things
- Art. 3419.1. Lost things; domestic animals
- Art. 3420. Treasure
CHAPTER 2--POSSESSION
SECTION 1--NOTION AND KINDS OF POSSESSION
- Art. 3421. Possession
- Art. 3422. Nature of possession; right to possess
- Art. 3423. Rights of possessors
SECTION 2--ACQUISITION, EXERCISE, RETENTION,
AND LOSS OF POSSESSION
- Art. 3424. Acquisition of possession
- Art. 3425. Corporeal possession
- Art. 3426. Constructive possession
- Art. 3427. Presumption of intent to own the thing
- Art. 3428. Acquisition of possession through another
- Art. 3429. Exercise of possession by another
- Art. 3430. Juridical persons
- Art. 3431. Retention of possession; civil possession
- Art. 3432. Presumption of retention of possession
- Art. 3433. Loss of possession
- Art. 3434. Loss of the right to possess
SECTION 3. VICES OF POSSESSION
- Art. 3435. Vices of possession
- Art. 3436. Violent, clandestine, discontinuous, and equivocal possession
SECTION 4. PRECARIOUS POSSESSION
- Art. 3437. Precarious possession
- Art. 3438. Presumption of precariousness
- Art. 3439. Termination of precarious possession
- Art. 3440. Protection of precarious possession
SECTION 5. TRANSFER, TACKING, AND PROOF OF POSSESSION
- Art. 3441. Transfer of possession
- Art. 3442. Tacking of possession
- Art. 3443. Presumption of continuity of possession
- Art. 3444. Possessory action
TITLE XXIV--PRESCRIPTION
CHAPTER 1--GENERAL PRINCIPLES
SECTION 1--PRESCRIPTION
- Art. 3445. Kinds of prescription
- Art. 3446. Acquisitive prescription
- Art. 3447. Liberative prescription
- Art. 3448. Prescription of nonuse
- Art. 3449. Renunciation of prescription
- Art. 3450. Express or tacit renunciation
- Art. 3451. Capacity to renounce
- Art. 3452. Necessity for pleading prescription
- Art. 3453. Rights of creditors and other interested parties
- Art. 3454. Computation of time
- Art. 3455. Computation of time by months
- Art. 3456. Computation of time by years
- Art. 3457. Prescription established by legislation only
SECTION 2--PEREMPTION
- Art. 3458. Peremption; effect
- Art. 3459. Application of rules of prescription
- Art. 3460. Peremption need not be pleaded
- Art. 3461. Renunciation, interruption, or suspension ineffective
CHAPTER 2--INTERRUPTION AND SUSPENSION
OF PRESCRIPTION
SECTION 1--INTERRUPTION OF PRESCRIPTION
- Art. 3462. Interruption by filing of suit or by service of process
- Art. 3463. Duration of interruption; abandonment or discontinuance of suit
- Art. 3464. Interruption by acknowledgment
- Art. 3465. Interruption of acquisitive prescription
- Art. 3466. Effect of interruption
SECTION 2--SUSPENSION OF PRESCRIPTION
- Art. 3467. Persons against whom prescription runs
- Art. 3468. Incompetents
- Art. 3469. Suspension of prescription
- Art. 3470. Prescription during delays for inventory; vacant succession
- Art. 3471. Limits of contractual freedom
- Art. 3472. Effect of suspension
- Art. 3472.1. Emergency suspension of prescription and peremption
CHAPTER 3--ACQUISITIVE PRESCRIPTION
SECTION 1--IMMOVABLES: PRESCRIPTION OF TEN YEARS IN
GOOD FAITH AND UNDER JUST TITLE
- Art. 3473. Prescription of ten years
- Art. 3474. Incompetents
- Art. 3475. Requisites
- Art. 3476. Attributes of possession
- Art. 3477. Precarious possessor; inability to prescribe
- Art. 3478. Termination of precarious possession; commencement of prescription
- Art. 3479. Particular successor of precarious possessor
- Art. 3480. Good faith
- Art. 3481. Presumption of good faith
- Art. 3482. Good faith at commencement of prescription
- Art. 3483. Just title
- Art. 3484. Transfer of undivided part of an immovable
- Art. 3485. Things susceptible of prescription
SECTION 2--IMMOVABLES: PRESCRIPTION OF THIRTY YEARS
- Art. 3486. Immovables; prescription of thirty years
- Art. 3487. Restriction as to extent of possession
- Art. 3488. Applicability of rules governing prescription of ten years
SECTION 3--MOVABLES: ACQUISITIVE PRESCRIPTION OF
THREE YEARS OR TEN YEARS
- Art. 3489. Movables; acquisitive prescription
- Art. 3490. Prescription of three years
- Art. 3491. Prescription of ten years
CHAPTER 4. LIBERATIVE PRESCRIPTION
SECTION 1. ONE YEAR PRESCRIPTION
- Art. 3492. Repealed by Acts 2024, No. 423, §2, eff. July 1, 2024.
- Art. 3493. Repealed by Acts 2024, No. 423, §2, eff. July 1, 2024.
SECTION 1-A. TWO-YEAR PRESCRIPTION
- Art. 3493.1. Delictual actions
- Art. 3493.2. Damage to immovable property; commencement and accrual of prescription
- Art. 3493.3. Delictual actions; two-year prescription; criminal act
- Art. 3493.10. Redesignated as C.C. Art. 3493.3 by Acts 2024, No. 423, §1.
SECTION 2. THREE YEAR PRESCRIPTION
- Art. 3494. Actions subject to a three-year prescription
- Art. 3495. Commencement and accrual of prescription
- Art. 3496. Action against attorney for return of papers
- Art. 3496.1. Action against a person for abuse of a minor
- Art. 3496.2. Action against a person for sexual assault
SECTION 3. FIVE YEAR PRESCRIPTION
- Art. 3497. Actions subject to a five year prescription
- Art. 3497.1. Actions for arrearages of spousal support or of installment payments for contributions made to a spouse's education or training
- Art. 3498. Actions on negotiable and nonnegotiable instruments
SECTION 4. TEN YEAR PRESCRIPTION
- Art. 3499. Personal action
- Art. 3500. Action against contractors and architects
- Art. 3501. Prescription and revival of money judgments
- Art. 3501.1. Actions for arrearages of child support
SECTION 5. THIRTY YEAR PRESCRIPTION
SECTION 6. INTERRUPTION AND SUSPENSION OF
LIBERATIVE PRESCRIPTION
SECTION 7. EXTENSION OF LIBERATIVE PRESCRIPTION
- Art. 3505. Acts extending liberative prescription
- Art. 3505.1. Formal requirements
- Art. 3505.2. Commencement of period of extension
- Art. 3505.3. Effect of extension on other obligors and obligees
- Art. 3505.4. Interruption or suspension during a period of extension
TITLE XXV. OF THE SIGNIFICATION OF SUNDRY TERMS
OF LAW EMPLOYED IN THIS CODE
- Art. 3506. General definitions of terms
- Art. 3507. Arts. 3507 to 3514 Repealed by Acts 1982, No. 187, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1983
BOOK IV. CONFLICT OF LAWS
TITLE I. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- Art. 3515. Determination of the applicable law; general and residual rule
- Art. 3516. Meaning of "State"
- Art. 3517. Renvoi
- Art. 3518. Domicile
TITLE II. STATUS
TITLE III. MARITAL PROPERTY
- Art. 3523. Movables
- Art. 3524. Immovables situated in this state
- Art. 3525. Termination of community; immovables in another state acquired by a spouse while domiciled in this state
- Art. 3526. Termination of community; movables and Louisiana immovables acquired by a spouse while domiciled in another state
- Art. 3527. Louisiana immovables acquired by a spouse while domiciled in another state; death of the acquiring spouse while domiciled in another state
TITLE IV. SUCCESSIONS
- Art. 3528. Formal validity of testamentary dispositions
- Art. 3529. Capacity and vices of consent
- Art. 3530. Capacity of heir or legatee
- Art. 3531. Interpretation of testaments
- Art. 3532. Movables
- Art. 3533. Immovables situated in this state
- Art. 3534. Immovables situated in another state
TITLE V. REAL RIGHTS
TITLE VI. CONVENTIONAL OBLIGATIONS
- Art. 3537. General rule
- Art. 3538. Form
- Art. 3539. Capacity
- Art. 3540. Party autonomy
- Art. 3541. Other juridical acts and quasi-contractual obligations
TITLE VII. DELICTUAL AND QUASI-DELICTUAL OBLIGATIONS
- Art. 3542. General rule
- Art. 3543. Issues of conduct and safety
- Art. 3544. Issues of loss distribution and financial protection
- Art. 3545. Products liability
- Art. 3546. Punitive damages
- Art. 3547. Exceptional cases
- Art. 3548. Domicile of juridical persons
TITLE VIII. LIBERATIVE PRESCRIPTION
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