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La. Civ. Code art. 712 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 712
Owner for a term or under condition.
Status: in_force

A person having ownership subject to a term or the happening of a condition may establish a predial servitude, but it ceases with his right.

Acts 1977, No. 514, §1.
La. Code Crim. Proc. art. 401 — LA Code / Code code-of-criminal-procedure / Article 401
General qualifications of jurors
Status: in_force

A. In order to qualify to serve as a juror, a person shall meet all of the following requirements:

(1) Be a citizen of the United States and of this state who has resided within the parish in which he is to serve as a juror for at least one year immediately preceding his jury service.

(2) Be at least eighteen years of age.

(3) Be able to read, write, and speak the English language and be possessed of sufficient knowledge of the English language.

(4) Not be under interdiction or incapable of serving as a juror because of a mental or physical infirmity, provided that no person shall be deemed incompetent solely because of the loss of hearing in any degree.

(5) Not be under indictment, incarcerated under an order of imprisonment, or on probation or parole for a felony offense within the five-year period immediately preceding the person's jury service.

B. Notwithstanding any provision in Subsection A, a person may be challenged for cause on one or more of the following:

(1) A loss of hearing or the existence of any other incapacity which satisfies the court that the challenged person is incapable of performing the duties of a juror in the particular action without prejudice to the substantial rights of the challenging party.

(2) When reasonable doubt exists as to the competency of the prospective juror to serve as provided for in Code of Criminal Procedure Article 787.

Amended by Acts 1972, No. 695, §1. Acts 1984, No. 655, §1; Acts 2010, No. 438, §1; Acts 2021, No. 121, §1.
La. Civ. Code art. 2806 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 2806
Ownership of immovable property; retroactivity of partnership's existence; acquisition of immovable property prior to partnership's existence
Status: in_force

A. An immovable acquired in the name of a partnership is owned by the partnership if, at the time of acquisition, the contract of partnership was in writing. If the contract of partnership was not in writing at the time of acquisition, the immovable is owned by the partners.

B. As to third persons, the individual partners shall be deemed to own immovable property acquired in the name of the partnership until the contract of partnership is filed for registry with the secretary of state as provided by law.

C. Whenever any immovable property is acquired by one or more persons acting in any capacity for and in the name of any partnership that has not been created by contract as required by law, and the partnership is subsequently created by contract in accordance with this Title, the partnership's existence shall be retroactive to the date of acquisition of an interest in the immovable property, but the retroactive effect shall be without prejudice to rights validly acquired by third persons in the interim between the date of acquisition and the date that the partnership was created by contract.

Acts 1980, No. 150, §1; Acts 2005, No. 136, §1, eff. June 22, 2005; Acts 2025, No. 488, §1.
La. Civ. Code art. 3302 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 3302
Property burdened by judicial and legal mortgages
Status: in_force

Judicial and legal mortgages burden all the property of the obligor that is made susceptible of mortgage by Paragraphs 1 through 4 of Article 3286 or that is expressly made subject to judicial or legal mortgage by other law.

Acts 1992, No. 1132, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.
La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 3865 — LA Code / Code code-of-civil-procedure / Article 3865
Alternative writ
Status: in_force

Upon the filing of a petition for a writ of mandamus, the court shall order the issuance of an alternative writ directing the defendant to perform the act demanded or to show cause to the contrary.
La. Civ. Code art. 1977 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 1977
Obligation or performance by a third person
Status: in_force

The object of a contract may be that a third person will incur an obligation or render a performance.

The party who promised that obligation or performance is liable for damages if the third person does not bind himself or does not perform.

Acts 1984, No. 331, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1985.
La. Civ. Code art. 3432 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 3432
Presumption of retention of possession
Status: in_force

The intent to retain possession is presumed unless there is clear proof of a contrary intention.

Acts 1982, No. 187, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1983.
La. Civ. Code art. 3074 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 3074
Lawful object
Status: in_force

The civil consequences of an unlawful act giving rise to a criminal action may be the object of a compromise, but the criminal action itself shall not be extinguished by the compromise.

A compromise may relate to the patrimonial effects of a person's civil status, but that civil status cannot be changed by the compromise.

Acts 2007, No. 138, §1.
La. Code Crim. Proc. art. 728 — LA Code / Code code-of-criminal-procedure / Article 728
Defense information and other matters not subject to disclosure
Status: in_force

Except as specifically provided in this Chapter, this Chapter does not authorize the discovery or inspection of reports, memoranda, notes, or other internal documents made by the defendant or by agents of the defendant in connection with the investigation or defense of the case; or of any document, notes, or other items which contain the mental impressions of any attorney for the defendant or any investigator working on behalf of such attorney.

Added by Acts 1977, No. 515, §1; Acts 2013, No. 250, §1.

NOTE: See Acts 2013, No. 250, §2, relative to applicability.
La. Civ. Code art. 3131 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 3131
Retraction or change of award prohibited.
Status: in_force

The arbitrators having once given their award, can not retract it nor change any thing in it.
La. Civ. Code art. 691 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 691
Constructions
Status: in_force

The owner of the enclosed estate may construct on the right-of-way the type of road, railroad, or other works reasonably necessary for the exercise of the right of passage.

Acts 1977, No. 514, §1; Acts 2012, No. 739, §1; Acts 2025, No. 27, §1.
La. Civ. Code art. 2540 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 2540
Redhibitory vice of one of several matched things sold together
Status: in_force

When more than one thing are sold together as a whole so that the buyer would not have bought one thing without the other or others, a redhibitory defect in one of such things gives rise to redhibition for the whole.

Acts 1993, No. 841, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1995.
La. Code Crim. Proc. art. 443 — LA Code / Code code-of-criminal-procedure / Article 443
When indictment to be found
Status: in_force

The grand jury shall find an indictment, charging the defendant with the commission of an offense, when, in its judgment, the evidence considered by it, if unexplained and uncontradicted, warrants a conviction.
La. Civ. Code art. 1235 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 1235
Persons entitled to demand collation
Status: in_force

The right to demand collation is confined to descendants of the first degree who qualify as forced heirs, and only applies with respect to gifts made within the three years prior to the decedent's death, and valued as of the date of the gift. Any provision of the Civil Code to the contrary is hereby repealed.

Acts 1996, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 77, §1.
La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 323 — LA Code / Code code-of-civil-procedure / Article 323
Writs executed on holiday
Status: in_force

The sheriff shall not execute any writ, mandate, order, or judgment of a court in a civil case on a legal holiday, except a writ of attachment, sequestration, fieri facias, or seizure and sale under executory process, or an injunction.

Amended by Acts 1978, No. 169, §1.
La. Civ. Code art. 1765 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 1765
Heritable obligation
Status: in_force

An obligation is heritable when its performance may be enforced by a successor of the obligee or against a successor of the obligor.

Every obligation is deemed heritable as to all parties, except when the contrary results from the terms or from the nature of the contract.

A heritable obligation is also transferable between living persons.

Acts 1984, No. 331, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1985.
La. Ch. Code art. 1615 — LA Code / Code childrens-code / Article 1615
Limitations upon applicability
Status: in_force

NOTE: Art. 1615 repealed by Acts 2010, No. 893, §2, eff. when the 35th state enacts the Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children.

This compact shall not apply to:

(1) The sending or bringing of a child into a receiving state by his parent, stepparent, grandparent, adult brother or sister, adult uncle or aunt, or his guardian and leaving the child with any such relative or nonagency guardian in the receiving state.

(2) Any placement, sending, or bringing of a child into a receiving state pursuant to any other interstate compact to which both the state from which the child is sent or brought and the receiving state are party, or to any other agreement between said states which has the force of law.

Acts 1991, No. 235, §16, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; Acts 2010, No. 893, §2.
La. Civ. Code art. 767 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 767
Acceptance of succession; confusion
Status: in_force

Until a successor has formally or informally accepted a succession, confusion does not take place. If the successor renounces the succession, the servitudes continue to exist.

Acts 1977, No. 514, §1; Acts 2001, No. 572, §1.
La. Code Crim. Proc. art. 415.2 — LA Code / Code code-of-criminal-procedure / Article 415.2
Duration of additional grand juries; extension of impanelment
Status: in_force

Grand juries impaneled in accordance with Article 415.1 shall remain impaneled for a period not to exceed one year unless discharged sooner by the court upon motion of the district attorney. Provided, however, that prior to the discharge of a grand jury by the court, a grand jury shall return its report on all offenses and matters presented or pending before it as authorized by the provisions of Article 444. Upon the request of the district attorney, the court may extend this time limit for an extra six months.

Added by Acts 1975, 1st Ex.Sess., No. 45, §1, eff. Feb. 20, 1975. Amended by Acts 1975, No. 569, §1.
La. Civ. Code art. 1793 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 1793
Interruption of prescription
Status: in_force

Any act that interrupts prescription for one of the solidary obligees benefits all the others.

Acts 1984, No. 331, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1985.
La. Civ. Code art. 1978 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 1978
Stipulation for the benefit of a third person
Status: in_force

A contracting party may stipulate a benefit for a third person called a third-party beneficiary.

Once the third-party beneficiary has manifested his intention to avail himself of the benefit, the parties may not dissolve the contract by mutual consent without the beneficiary's agreement.

Acts 1984, No. 331, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1985; Acts 2025, No. 488, §1.
La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 74.2 — LA Code / Code code-of-civil-procedure / Article 74.2
Custody proceedings; support; forum non conveniens
Status: in_force

A. A proceeding to obtain the legal custody of a child or to establish an obligation of support may be brought in the parish where a party is domiciled or in the parish of the last matrimonial domicile.

B. A proceeding for change of custody may be brought in the parish where the person awarded custody is domiciled or in the parish where the custody decree was rendered. If the person awarded custody is no longer domiciled in the state, the proceeding for change of custody may be brought in the parish where the person seeking a change of custody is domiciled or in the parish where the custody decree was rendered.

C. A proceeding for modification of support may be brought in any of the following:

(1) The parish where the person awarded support is domiciled if the award has been registered in that parish pursuant to the provisions of Article 2785 et seq., regardless of the provisions of Article 2786(A) relative to the domicile of the parties.

(2) The parish where the support award was rendered if it has not been registered and confirmed in another court of this state, pursuant to the provisions of Article 2785 et seq.

(3) The parish where the support award was last registered if registered in multiple courts of this state.

(4) Any of the following, if the person awarded support is no longer domiciled in the state:

(a) The parish where the other person is domiciled.

(b) The parish where the support award was rendered if not confirmed in another court of this state pursuant to Article 2785 et seq.

(c) The parish where the support order was last confirmed pursuant to the provisions of Article 2785 et seq.

D. A proceeding to register a child support, medical support, and income assignment order, or any such order issued by a court of this state for modification, may be brought in the parish where the person awarded support is domiciled.

E. For the convenience of the parties and the witnesses and in the interest of justice, a court, upon contradictory motion or upon its own motion after notice and hearing, may transfer the custody or support proceeding to another court where the proceeding may have been brought.

F. Repealed by Acts 2025, No. 250, §4.

Acts 1987, No. 417, §1; Acts 1997, No. 603, §1; Acts 2007, No. 99, §1; Acts 2010, No. 689, §1, eff. June 29, 2010; Acts 2015, No. 379, §2, eff. Aug. 1, 2016; Acts 2025, No. 250, §§3, 4.
La. Civ. Code art. 246 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 246
Occasion for tutorship.
Status: in_force

The minor not emancipated is placed under the authority of a tutor after the dissolution of the marriage of his father and mother or the separation from bed and board of either one of them from the other.

Amended by Acts 1924, No. 72.
La. Civ. Code art. 2706 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 2706
Loss of crop rent
Status: in_force

When the rent consists of a portion of the crops, then any loss of the crops that is not caused by the fault of the lessor or the lessee shall be borne by both parties in accordance with their respective shares.

Acts 2004, No. 821, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2005.
La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 2340 — LA Code / Code code-of-civil-procedure / Article 2340
Payment of debt prior to adjudication
Status: in_force

The sale of the property may be prevented at any time prior to the adjudication by payment to the sheriff of the judgment, with interest and costs.
La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 2824 — LA Code / Code code-of-civil-procedure / Article 2824
No affidavit evidence of factual issues
Status: in_force

No fact which is an issue in a contradictory proceeding in a succession may be proved by affidavit under Articles 2821 and 2822. In all such contradictory proceedings, issues of fact shall be determined on the trial thereof only by evidence introduced as in ordinary cases.
La. Civ. Code art. 1812 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 1812
Impossibility or unlawfulness of one item of performance
Status: in_force

When the choice belongs to the obligor and one of the items of performance contemplated in the alternative obligation becomes impossible or unlawful, regardless of the fault of the obligor, he must render one of those that remain.

When the choice belongs to the obligee and one of the items of performance becomes impossible or unlawful without the fault of the obligor, the obligee must choose one of the items that remain. If the impossibility or unlawfulness is due to the fault of the obligor, the obligee may choose either one of those that remain, or damages for the item of performance that became impossible or unlawful.

Acts 1984, No. 331, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1985.
La. Code Crim. Proc. art. 33 — LA Code / Code code-of-criminal-procedure / Article 33
Automatic discharge
Status: in_force

A peace bond is automatically discharged at the end of thirty days from the expiration of the period specified therein, unless a proceeding to declare a forfeiture has been brought within that time.
La. Civ. Code art. 1878 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 1878
Fortuitous event after obligor performed in part
Status: in_force

If a contract is dissolved because of a fortuitous event that occurred after an obligor has performed in part, the obligee is bound but only to the extent that he was enriched by the obligor's partial performance.

Acts 1984, No. 331, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1985.
La. Code Crim. Proc. art. 573.2 — LA Code / Code code-of-criminal-procedure / Article 573.2
Running of time limitations; exception; video voyeurism
Status: in_force

The time limitations established by Article 572 shall not commence to run as to the crime of video voyeurism (R.S. 14:283) until the crime is discovered by the victim.

Acts 2016, No. 352, §1.
La. Civ. Code art. 3138 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 3138
Kinds of security
Status: in_force

Kinds of security include suretyship, privilege, mortgage, and pledge. A security interest established to secure performance of an obligation is also a kind of security.

Acts 2014, No. 281, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.
La. Ch. Code art. 724.1 — LA Code / Code childrens-code / Article 724.1
Temporary guardianship; designated successor guardian; construction
Status: in_force

A.(1) A guardian who has entered into a guardianship subsidy agreement with the department may name an individual as a successor guardian in the agreement for the purpose of continued eligibility of the subsidy in the event of the death or incapacity of the guardian.

(2) Nothing relative to the subsidy agreement provided for in this Paragraph shall be construed to confer any right of legal guardianship, as such legal guardianship shall be established or modified pursuant to Articles 720 through 724 exclusively.

B. An individual who has been named as a successor guardian in the guardianship subsidy agreement may request an ex parte order of temporary guardianship of the child in a motion for guardianship or modification of guardianship pursuant to Article 720 or 724.

C. An ex parte order of temporary guardianship of the child may be granted to the named successor only if all of the following conditions are satisfied:

(1) The current guardian is incapacitated or deceased.

(2) It clearly appears from specific facts shown by a verified motion or by supporting affidavit that the individual is able to provide a stable and safe home for the child pending the hearing.

(3) The mover was previously named as a successor guardian in a guardianship subsidy agreement with the department as shown by the agreement.

(4) The mover certifies to the court in writing the efforts undertaken to give notice to the parent of the child, the department, and the attorney for the child of the request for the ex parte order granting temporary guardianship or the reasons supporting the claim that notice should not be required.

D. An ex parte order of temporary guardianship shall:

(1) Continue until a hearing on the motion for guardianship or modification of guardianship is held and guardianship is established or denied by the court.

(2) Provide the date on which the ex parte order is signed and the date and hour of the hearing on the motion for guardianship or modification of the guardianship.

Acts 2015, No. 124, §1, eff. June 19, 2015; Acts 2022, No. 272, §1.
La. Civ. Code art. 2555 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 2555
Liability of the buyer who fails to take delivery
Status: in_force

A buyer who fails to take delivery of the thing after a tender of such delivery, or who fails to pay the price, is liable for expenses incurred by the seller in preservation of the thing and for other damages sustained by the seller.

Acts 1993, No. 841, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1995.
La. Civ. Code art. 684 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 684
Enclosures.
Status: in_force

A landowner has the right to enclose his land.

Acts 1977, No. 514, §1.
La. Ch. Code art. 1025.3 — LA Code / Code childrens-code / Article 1025.3
Failure to appear at appearance to answer
Status: in_force

A. If, after proper service, the parent fails to appear before the court to answer the petition as required by Article 1025.1(A), the court shall set the date for the termination of parental rights hearing as required by Article 1031.

B. Notice of the hearing date shall be sent to the nonappearing parent by either registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid, to the addressee only.

Acts 1997, No. 256, §1.
La. Civ. Code art. 528 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 528
Useful expenses.
Status: in_force

An evicted possessor in good faith is entitled to recover from the owner his useful expenses to the extent that they have enhanced the value of the thing.

Acts 1979, No. 180, §1.
La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 2811 — LA Code / Code code-of-civil-procedure / Article 2811
Court in which succession opened
Status: in_force

A proceeding to open a succession shall be brought in the district court of the parish where the deceased was domiciled at the time of his death.

If the deceased was not domiciled in this state at the time of his death, his succession may be opened in the district court of any parish where:

(1) Immovable property of the deceased is situated; or,

(2) Movable property of the deceased is situated, if he owned no immovable property in the state at the time of his death.
La. Civ. Code art. 1533 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 1533
Right of return; effect
Status: in_force

The effect of the right of return is that the thing donated returns to the donor free of any alienation, lease, or encumbrance made by the donee or his successors after the donation.

The right of return shall not apply, however, to a good faith transferee for value of the thing donated. In such a case, the donee and his successors by gratuitous title are, nevertheless, accountable for the loss sustained by the donor.

Amended by Acts 1974, No. 210, §1; Acts 2008, No. 204, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2009.
La. Civ. Code art. 116 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 116
Modification of spousal support obligation
Status: in_force

The obligation of final spousal support may be modified, waived, or extinguished by judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction or by authentic act or act under private signature duly acknowledged by the obligee.

Acts 1997, No. 1078, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1998.
La. Civ. Code art. 1359 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 1359
Deductions allowed.
Status: in_force

The deductions, which are to be made before the partition of a succession, consist:

1. Of the sums due to one or more of the heirs for a debt due them by the deceased, or advance [advances] made to the succession, or expenses on its effects, according to the account settled among the heirs;

2. Of the amount owing to the heirs to whom a collation is due, when the collation is made by taking less, in order that the heirs may receive a portion equal to the amount of the collation which is due;

3. Of the privileged debts due or paid on account of the succession, which have been incurred since the death of the deceased, or in order to effect the partition.