FrankGoortani/open-us-law huggingface dataset:
La. Civ. Code art. 2677 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 2677
Crop rent
Status: in_force

When the parties to an agricultural lease agree that the rent will consist of a portion of the crops, that portion is considered at all times the property of the lessor.

Acts 2004, No. 821, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2005.
La. Civ. Code art. 3284 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 3284
Conventional, legal, and judicial mortgages
Status: in_force

A conventional mortgage is established by contract.

A legal mortgage is established by operation of law.

A judicial mortgage is established by law to secure a judgment.

Acts 1991, No. 652, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1992.
La. Civ. Code art. 3174 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 3174
Judicial sale prohibited
Status: in_force

A pledge of the lessor's rights in the lease of an immovable and its rents does not entitle the pledgee to cause the rights of the lessor to be sold by judicial process. Any clause to the contrary is absolutely null.

Acts 2014, No. 281, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.
La. Civ. Code art. 465 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 465
Things incorporated into an immovable.
Status: in_force

Things incorporated into a tract of land, a building, or other construction, so as to become an integral part of it, such as building materials, are its component parts.

Acts 1978, No. 728, §1.
La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 2333 — LA Code / Code code-of-civil-procedure / Article 2333
Sale of perishable property
Status: in_force

The court, at the request of a party, may order the immediate sale at public auction, without advertisement or appraisement, of property that is perishable and subject to loss or deterioration pending compliance with the usual formalities. Notice of the time and place of the sale shall be given to all parties. The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder.
La. Civ. Code art. 3049 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 3049
Surety's right of reimbursement for payment of obligation
Status: in_force

A surety who pays the creditor is entitled to reimbursement from the principal obligor. He may not recover reimbursement until the principal obligation is due and exigible.

A surety for multiple solidary obligors may recover from any of them reimbursement of the whole amount he has paid the creditor.

Acts 1987, No. 409, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1988.
La. Ch. Code art. 801 — LA Code / Code childrens-code / Article 801
Purpose
Status: in_force

The purpose of this Title is to accord due process to each child who is accused of having committed a delinquent act and ensure that he shall receive, preferably in his own home, the care, guidance, and control that will be conducive to his welfare and the best interests of the state and that in those instances when he is removed from the control of his parents, the court shall secure for him care as nearly as possible equivalent to that which the parents should have given him.

Acts 1991, No. 235, §8, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; Acts 1993, No. 430, §2; Acts 2018, No. 467, §2.
La. Civ. Code art. 1725 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 1725
Method of making partition
Status: in_force

These partitions may be made by act inter vivos or by testament. If a testator has designated the quantum or value of his estate which he bequeaths to a legatee either by formula or by specific sum, he may expressly delegate to his executor the authority to select assets to satisfy the quantum or value.

Amended by Acts 1982, No. 448, §1.
La. Civ. Code art. 1494 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 1494
Forced heir entitled to legitime; exception
Status: in_force

A forced heir may not be deprived of the portion of the decedent's estate reserved to him by law, called the legitime, unless the decedent has just cause to disinherit him.

Acts 1995, No. 1180, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1996; Acts 1996, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 77, §1.
La. Civ. Code art. 2315 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 2315
Liability for acts causing damages
Status: in_force

A. Every act whatever of man that causes damage to another obliges him by whose fault it happened to repair it.

B. Damages may include loss of consortium, service, and society, and shall be recoverable by the same respective categories of persons who would have had a cause of action for wrongful death of an injured person. Damages do not include costs for future medical treatment, services, surveillance, or procedures of any kind unless such treatment, services, surveillance, or procedures are directly related to a manifest physical or mental injury or disease. Damages shall include any sales taxes paid by the owner on the repair or replacement of the property damaged.

Amended by Acts 1884, No. 71; Acts 1908, No. 120, §1; Acts 1918, No. 159, §1; Acts 1932, No. 159, §1; Acts 1948, No. 333, §1; Acts 1960, No. 30, §1; Acts 1982, No. 202, §1; Acts 1984, No. 397, §1; Acts 1986, No. 211, §1; Acts 1999, No. 989, §1, eff. July 9, 1999; Acts 2001, No. 478, §1.
La. Ch. Code art. 1546 — LA Code / Code childrens-code / Article 1546
Venue
Status: in_force

A proceeding brought pursuant to this Chapter may be commenced in the parish in which the minor resides or the marriage ceremony is to be performed.

Acts 1991, No. 235, §15, eff. Jan. 1, 1992.
La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 2644 — LA Code / Code code-of-civil-procedure / Article 2644
Conversion to ordinary proceeding
Status: in_force

The plaintiff in an executory proceeding may convert it into an ordinary proceeding by amending his petition so as to pray that the defendant be cited and for judgment against him on the obligation secured by the mortgage or privilege.

The plaintiff in an ordinary proceeding may not convert it into an executory proceeding.
La. Civ. Code art. 3505 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 3505
Acts extending liberative prescription
Status: in_force

After liberative prescription has commenced to run but before it accrues, an obligor may by juridical act extend the prescriptive period. An obligor may grant successive extensions. The duration of each extension may not exceed one year.

Acts 2013, No. 88, §1.
La. Civ. Code art. 2575 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 2575
Ownership of fruits and products pending redemption
Status: in_force

The fruits and products of a thing sold with right of redemption belong to the buyer.

Acts 1993, No. 841, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1995.
La. Ch. Code art. 1511 — LA Code / Code childrens-code / Article 1511
Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in this Chapter:

(1) "Legal custody" means a legal status created by court order that vests in a custodian the right to have physical custody of the child and the right and duty to protect, train, and discipline and to provide food, shelter, education, and ordinary medical care, all subject to any residual parental rights and responsibilities.

(2) "Physical custody" means the duty and authority to provide care for a child in the home of the custodian.

(3) "Voluntary transfer of custody" is a parent's knowing and voluntary relinquishment of legal custody to an agency, institution, or individual, subject to residual parental rights retained by the parent and under such terms and conditions that enable the child to receive adequate care and treatment.

Acts 1991, No. 235, §15, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; Acts 2011, No. 128, §1.
La. Ch. Code art. 1303.15 — LA Code / Code childrens-code / Article 1303.15
Nonparentage as defense
Status: in_force

A party whose parentage of a child has been previously determined by or pursuant to law may not plead nonparentage as a defense to a proceeding under this Chapter.

Acts 1995, No. 251, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1996; Acts 2015, No. 80, §1, eff. July 1, 2015.
La. Code Crim. Proc. art. 281 — LA Code / Code code-of-criminal-procedure / Article 281
No right of asylum or immunity from other criminal prosecutions
Status: in_force

After a person has been brought back to this state by, or after waiver of, extradition proceedings, he may be tried in this state for other crimes which he may be charged with having committed here as well as that specified in the requisition for his extradition.

Acts 2003, No. 1118, §1.
La. Ch. Code art. 401 — LA Code / Code childrens-code / Article 401
Adoption of local rules of court
Status: in_force

A. Unless procedures are otherwise provided through rules promulgated by the Louisiana Supreme Court, a court may adopt administrative rules governing internal operating procedures not in conflict with provisions of this Code, or of other laws. When a court has more than one judge, its rules shall be adopted or amended by a majority of the judges thereof sitting en banc.

B. The rules shall be made available to the public by filing a copy with the Judicial Council of the Louisiana Supreme Court and by filing a copy with the clerk of court, and a copy shall be furnished on request to any attorney licensed to practice law in this state.

Acts 1991, No. 235, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; Acts 2014, No. 354, §1.
La. Ch. Code art. 1306.9 — LA Code / Code childrens-code / Article 1306.9
Procedure to register child support order of another state for modification
Status: in_force

A party or support enforcement agency seeking to modify, or to modify and enforce, a child support order issued in another state shall register that order in this state in the same manner provided in Articles 1306.1 through 1306.8 if the order has not been registered. A petition for modification may be filed at the same time as a request for registration, or later. The pleading must specify the grounds for modification.

Acts 1995, No. 251, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1996; Acts 2015, No. 80, §1, eff. July 1, 2015.
La. Civ. Code art. 262 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 262
Appointment of several tutors; order of priority.
Status: in_force

If the parent who died last has appointed several tutors to the children, the person first mentioned shall be alone charged with the tutorship, and the second shall not be called to it, except in case of the death, absence, refusal, incapacity or displacing of the first, and in like manner as to the others in succession.
La. Code Crim. Proc. art. 881.6 — LA Code / Code code-of-criminal-procedure / Article 881.6
Reducing a sentence for substantial assistance
Status: in_force

A. Upon motion of the state, the sentencing court may reduce the defendant's sentence if, after sentencing, the defendant provided substantial assistance in furtherance of the investigation or prosecution of another person.

B. In evaluating whether the defendant has provided substantial assistance pursuant to the provisions of this Article, the sentencing court may consider the defendant's presentence or postsentence assistance in furtherance of the investigation or prosecution.

C. If the sentencing court makes a determination to reduce the sentence to a time period which is less than the minimum sentence provided by law, that sentence shall not be imposed without the consent of the district attorney.

D. For purposes of this Article, "sentencing" means the oral announcement of the sentence.

Acts 2011, No. 349, §1.
La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 3351 — LA Code / Code code-of-civil-procedure / Article 3351
Amount of compensation; when due
Status: in_force

An executor shall be allowed as compensation for his services such reasonable amount as is provided in the testament in which he is appointed. An administrator for his services in administering a succession shall be allowed such reasonable amount as is provided by the agreement between the administrator and the surviving spouse, and all competent heirs or legatees of the deceased.

In the absence of a provision in the testament or an agreement between the parties, the administrator or executor shall be allowed a sum equal to two and one-half percent of the amount of the inventory as compensation for his services in administering the succession. The court may increase the compensation upon a proper showing that the usual commission is inadequate.

A provisional administrator or an administrator of a vacant succession shall be allowed fair and reasonable compensation by the court for his services.

The compensation of a succession representative shall be due upon the homologation of his final account. The court may allow an administrator or executor an advance upon his compensation at any time during the administration.

Amended by Acts 1982, No. 281, §1.
La. Civ. Code art. 3506 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 3506
General definitions of terms
Status: in_force

Whenever the terms of law, employed in this Code, have not been particularly defined otherwise, they shall be understood as follows:

(1) Assignment. An assignment is a transfer of rights by particular title, such as by sale, donation, or particular legacy.

(2) Juridical act. A juridical act is a manifestation of will intended to produce legal consequences. Juridical acts may be unilateral, such as donations mortis causa, or bilateral, such as contracts.

(3) Successor. A successor is a person who takes the place of another. There are two kinds of successors: the universal successor, such as the heir, universal legatee, and general legatee; and the particular successor, such as the buyer, donee, or particular legatee. The universal successor represents the person of the deceased and succeeds to his rights and charges. The particular successor succeeds only to the rights appertaining to the thing that is sold, donated, or bequeathed, or otherwise transferred to him.

(4) Third person. A third person is a person who is not a party to a ceremony, an instrument, a juridical act, a judgment, or a legal relationship. Examples of third persons include officiants to ceremonies, witnesses to instruments or juridical acts, and all those other than obligor and obligee to the legal relationship between the former and the latter. With respect to an obligation, a third person does not include a person such as a universal successor or a person who assumes the obligation or is bound by contract to recognize it.

Amended by Acts 1979, No. 607, §1; Acts 1981, No. 919, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1982; Acts 1979, No. 711, §1; Acts 1987, No. 125, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1988; Acts 1990, No. 989, §7, eff. Jan. 1, 1991; Acts 1991, No. 923, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; Acts 1997, No. 1317, §1, eff. July 15, 1997; Acts 1997, No. 1421, §2, eff. July 1, 1999; Acts 1999, No. 503, §1; Acts 2004, No. 26, §1; Acts 2025, No. 488, §1.
La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 1428 — LA Code / Code code-of-civil-procedure / Article 1428
Supplementation of responses
Status: in_force

A party who has responded to a request for discovery with a response that was complete when made is under no duty to supplement his response to include information thereafter acquired, except as follows:

(1) A party is under a duty seasonably to supplement his response with respect to any question directly addressed to the identity and location of persons having knowledge of discoverable matters, and the identity of each person expected to be called as an expert witness at trial, the subject matter on which he is expected to testify, and the substance of his testimony.

(2) A party is under a duty seasonably to amend a prior response if he obtains information upon the basis of which he knows that the response was incorrect when made, or he knows that the response though correct when made is no longer true and the circumstances are such that a failure to amend the response is in substance a knowing concealment.

(3) A duty to supplement responses may be imposed by order of the court, agreement of the parties, or at any time prior to trial through new requests for supplementation of prior responses.

Acts 1976, No. 574, §1.
La. Code Crim. Proc. art. 626 — LA Code / Code code-of-criminal-procedure / Article 626
Change of venue where defendant is on bail
Status: in_force

If a defendant has furnished bail prior to a change of venue, his obligation and that of the surety on his bond shall be the same as if the prosecution had been instituted in the court to which the case is transferred.
La. Civ. Code art. 395 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 395
Capacity to make juridical acts
Status: in_force

A full interdict lacks capacity to make a juridical act. A limited interdict lacks capacity to make a juridical act pertaining to the property or aspects of personal care that the judgment of limited interdiction places under the authority of his curator, except as provided in Article 1482 or in the judgment of limited interdiction.

Acts 2000, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 25, §1, eff. July 1, 2001; Acts 2001, No. 509, §1, eff. June 1, 2001; Acts 2003, No. 1008, §1.
La. Civ. Code art. 2029 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 2029
Nullity of contracts
Status: in_force

A contract is null when the requirements for its formation have not been met.

Acts 1984, No. 331, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1985.
La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 3610 — LA Code / Code code-of-civil-procedure / Article 3610
Security for temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction
Status: in_force

A temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction shall not issue unless the applicant furnishes security in the amount fixed by the court, except where security is dispensed with by law. The security shall indemnify the person wrongfully restrained or enjoined for the payment of costs incurred and damages sustained. However, no security is required when the applicant for a temporary restraining order or preliminary or permanent injunction is seeking protection from domestic abuse, dating violence, stalking, or sexual assault.

Acts 2003, No. 750, §1.
La. Civ. Code art. 2372 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 2372
Necessaries.
Status: in_force

A spouse is solidarily liable with the other spouse who incurs an obligation for necessaries for himself or the family.

Acts 1979, No. 709, §1.
La. Code Crim. Proc. art. 7 — LA Code / Code code-of-criminal-procedure / Article 7
Municipal and parochial officers included
Status: in_force

Unless the context clearly indicates the contrary, the term "district attorney" includes a municipal prosecuting officer; the term "sheriff" includes a city or municipal police chief or a city marshall; and other official titles include their counterparts in municipal and parochial governments.
La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 4609 — LA Code / Code code-of-civil-procedure / Article 4609
Homologation of partition
Status: in_force

When the partition has been completed by the notary, he shall file his proces verbal of the partition, or a copy thereof, in the court which ordered the partition. Any party may rule all other parties into court to show cause why the partition should not be homologated or rejected.
La. Civ. Code art. 1318 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 1318
Partition by or against heir or successor of co-owner.
Status: in_force

Not only the coheir himself, but the heirs of that coheir, and any other successor can compel a partition of the estate, * and be themselves compelled to make it.

* Note error in English translation of French text; "estate" should be "succession."
La. Ch. Code art. 1305.1 — LA Code / Code childrens-code / Article 1305.1
Employer's receipt of income-withholding order of another state
Status: in_force

An income-withholding order issued in another state may be sent by or on behalf of the obligee, or by the support enforcement agency, to the person defined as the obligor's employer under the income withholding law of this state without first filing a petition or comparable pleading or registering the order with a tribunal of this state.

Acts 1995, No. 251, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1996; Acts 1997, No. 1241, §1, eff. July 15, 1997; Acts 2015, No. 80, §1, eff. July 1, 2015.
La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 4551 — LA Code / Code code-of-civil-procedure / Article 4551
Judgment
Status: in_force

A. In the judgment of interdiction, the court shall:

(1) Appoint a curator.

(2) Appoint an undercurator, unless an undercurator is not required by law.

(3) State that the powers of the curator commence only upon qualification.

(4) Direct the clerk of court to record the judgment in the conveyance and mortgage records of the parish where it was rendered.

(5) Set forth the name, domicile, age, and current address of the defendant.

B. In addition, a judgment of limited interdiction shall confer upon the limited curator only those powers necessitated by the interests of the limited interdict to be protected through limited interdiction and shall state that the limited interdict retains the capacity of a natural person except as expressly limited by the judgment.

C. In addition, a judgment granting or extending temporary or preliminary interdiction shall set forth the date of termination.

Acts 2000, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 25, §3, eff. July 1, 2001; Acts 2016, No. 122, §1.
La. Code Crim. Proc. art. 791 — LA Code / Code code-of-criminal-procedure / Article 791
Sequestration of jurors and jury
Status: in_force

A. A jury is sequestered by being kept together in the charge of an officer of the court so as to be secluded from outside communication, except as permitted by R.S. 18:1307.2.

B. In capital cases, after each juror is sworn he shall be sequestered, unless the state and the defense have jointly moved that the jury not be sequestered.

C.(1) In noncapital cases, the jury shall be sequestered during active deliberations and may be sequestered at any time upon order of the court.

(2) At any time after the court's charge, and after notice to the parties and affording the parties an opportunity to be heard on the record outside the presence of the jury, the court may declare the deliberations to be in recess and may then direct the jury to suspend its deliberations, to separate without sequestration, and to return for continued deliberations on the next day of operation of the court. Before each recess, the court shall admonish the jury as provided in Subparagraph (3) of this Paragraph and direct it to not resume its deliberations until all twelve jurors have reassembled in the designated place at the termination of the declared recess.

(3)(a) Upon the court's charge to suspend deliberations and to separate without sequestration, the court shall admonish the jury as follows:

(i) Deliberations shall be conducted only in the jury room when all jurors are present. All deliberations shall cease and shall not resume until all of the jurors have returned to the jury room.

(ii) During the recess, jurors shall not converse with any person about anything related to the case.

(iii) Jurors remain under obligation to not request, accept, agree to accept, or discuss with any person regarding the receiving or accepting of any payment or benefit in return for supplying information concerning the trial.

(iv) Jurors shall promptly report directly to the court any incident within their knowledge involving an attempt by any person to improperly influence any member of the jury.

(v) Jurors shall not visit or view the premises or place where the charged crime was allegedly committed or any other premises or place involved in the case.

(vi) Jurors shall not read, view, or listen to any accounts or discussions of the case reported by newspapers, television, radio, the internet, or any other news media outlet.

(vii) Jurors shall not attempt to research any fact, issue, or law related to the case, whether by discussion with others, by research in a library or on the internet, or by any other means or source.

(b) Upon the jurors returning from any recess, the court shall verify with each juror on the record that he followed the admonition.

Amended by Acts 1981, No. 475, §1; Acts 1995, No. 1172, §1; Acts 1995, No. 1277, §1; Acts 2023, No. 75, §1.