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LA Rev Stat § 41:291 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 41 - Public Lands|§291. §§291 to 294 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 568, §2

RS 291 - §§291 to 294 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 568, §2
LA Rev Stat § 41:331 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 41 - Public Lands|§331. §§331 to 337 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 568, §2

RS 331 - §§331 to 337 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 568, §2
LA Rev Stat § 41:381 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 41 - Public Lands|§381. Refund of purchase price in event of invalid sale

RS 381 - Refund of purchase price in event of invalid sale  Every person, or his legal representatives who is the purchaser from the state of a tract of land, which had actually and immediately been located by the state and which is or may be void by reason of a prior sale thereof or by any valid right of pre-emption, or for want of title thereto in the state, shall be entitled to a repayment of any sum of money paid for the tract of land, on making proof to the satisfaction of the Register of the State Land Office that the land was erroneously sold by the state. The register may draw a warrant on the State Auditor for the repayment of this money.
LA Rev Stat § 41:382 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 41 - Public Lands|§382. Re-transfer of land to state and return of warrant

RS 382 - Re-transfer of land to state and return of warrant  Before the money is refunded, the party applying must deposit a duly executed transfer to the state of the tract purchased, together with the warrant under which the selection or location was made.
LA Rev Stat § 41:421 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 41 - Public Lands|§421. Recovery by state for illegal or excessive entry of swamp lands

RS 421 - Recovery by state for illegal or excessive entry of swamp lands  Whenever the governor is satisfied from information received, that swamp lands of the state, not subject to tidal overflow, have been illegally and fraudulently entered by private persons or corporations and sold by the state for a price less than one dollar and twenty five cents per acre, or for a price authorized by law, but in a quantity in excess of six hundred and forty acres, he may order the institution of proceedings for the recovery of all such lands in excess of six hundred and forty acres, for the value of timber taken therefrom, or for damage thereto and waste thereon.
LA Rev Stat § 41:422 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 41 - Public Lands|§422. Certified abstracts

RS 422 - Certified abstracts  The Register of the State Land Office, when requested to do so by the governor, shall prepare from the records of the state land office and deliver to the district attorney of the parish wherein the lands are located, certified abstracts of such lands as may be designated by the governor, as swamp lands illegally and fraudulently entered by private persons or corporations and sold by the state. The abstracts shall show the particulars of each sale or entry, giving the date, price per acre, number of acres entered and sold with full description of the lands by township, range, section or fraction of sections. The abstracts shall also include the name of the person entering or purchasing, and date and number of certificate or patent, if issued, with copy of application to purchase or enter and with copy of the affidavit and proof submitted therewith. The register may charge the state with the cost of the abstract.
LA Rev Stat § 41:423 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 41 - Public Lands|§423. Proceedings

RS 423 - Proceedings  On receipt of the abstract, the district attorney shall, without delay, institute suit against the claimants or possessors for the recovery of the lands, for the value of such timber as may have been taken therefrom, and for the damage to the lands or the timber thereon whether due to waste or otherwise; and he may sue out such injunctions, sequestrations, or other conservatory process as may be necessary to protect the interests of the state.
LA Rev Stat § 41:424 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 41 - Public Lands|§424. Suits in name of state

RS 424 - Suits in name of state  All suits or process shall be in the name of and for the use and benefit of the state, and shall be issued and served by the proper officials without advance of costs, or security therefor. All suits shall be prosecuted to judgment and final execution; and in cases where suits have already been instituted the district attorney shall prosecute them to final judgment and execution.
LA Rev Stat § 41:425 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 41 - Public Lands|§425. Compensation of officers and of district attorney

RS 425 - Compensation of officers and of district attorney  The state shall make provision for the compensation of the officers of the court and the state land office for their services under this Part in those cases where judgment may be rendered adverse to the state. Where judgment is rendered in favor of the state the parties cast shall be liable for all costs of court. For his compensation the district attorney shall receive such an amount as may be fixed by the attorney general and the governor.
LA Rev Stat § 41:426 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 41 - Public Lands|§426. Records and maps to show lands recovered

RS 426 - Records and maps to show lands recovered The lands recovered shall be placed upon the official records and maps of the state land office as lands belonging to the state, and copies of the final judgment decreeing them to be the property of the state shall be kept on file and of record in the office and shall so remain as muniments of title to the lands.
LA Rev Stat § 41:461 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 41 - Public Lands|§461. Contest of entries

RS 461 - Contest of entries  In all cases where lands belonging to the state are entered under any of the laws requiring their settlement and cultivation as a part of the consideration received or to be received by the state, and particularly where the entries were made under the homestead laws, the graduation laws, or the settlement and cultivation laws, any person or persons desiring to acquire title to them, or any part thereof, and who is otherwise lawfully qualified to acquire them, may contest the entry, and if successful may acquire title to the lands covered in the manner following:  (1) He shall file a written notice of contest in the state land office describing the entry by number, date, and the name of the enterers and the land by section, township and range, or other proper description, and setting forth the facts constituting the alleged invalidity of said entry. (2) The notice shall be supported by the affidavit of the contestant and two witnesses. (3) On filing the notice with the Register of the State Land Office on the payment of two dollars and fifty cents for each entry so contested to cover the cost thereof, except that of the services of notices of contest as hereafter provided. (4) The Register shall issue his notices to the enterer, and shall deliver them to the contestant or his attorney of record. (5) The notice shall substantially state the facts, the ground of contest, and that on a day to be therein fixed, the parties will be heard in person or by counsel, with such proof as either may adduce, under the principles and rules of evidence applicable and now in force in like contests in the land offices of the United States.
LA Rev Stat § 41:462 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 41 - Public Lands|§462. Hearing by register

RS 462 - Hearing by register  On the day fixed for the trial of the contest and in as expeditious a manner as may be consistent with justice the register shall hear the evidence and the arguments, and shall decide the entries, valid or invalid, and shall affirm or cancel them accordingly. The decision shall be final so far as the executive department is concerned, unless an appeal is taken under existing laws. If the entry is invalid and is cancelled, the register shall notify the parties to the contest, or their attorneys.
LA Rev Stat § 41:463 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 41 - Public Lands|§463. Contestant's rights where entries are declared invalid

RS 463 - Contestant's rights where entries are declared invalid  For a period of sixty days after an entry has been declared invalid and cancelled, the contestant shall have the sole right, exclusive of all other persons, to enter any or all of the lands under any of the laws then in force, in accordance with all the limitations, conditions and requirements of the laws as to quantity, price or acts of settlement and cultivation; provided that none of the provisions of this Part shall apply to any land for which the state has issued or may at the time of filing contest have issued a patent. The practice, forms and modes of proceeding under this Part shall conform so far as consistent herewith, and so far as locally applicable to the established practice, forms and modes of proceeding in like cases now in force in the General Land Office of the United States.
LA Rev Stat § 41:464 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 41 - Public Lands|§464. Contestant's rights to lands not then subject to entry

RS 464 - Contestant's rights to lands not then subject to entry  If, upon the termination in favor of any contestant of a contest brought under this Part, the land or any part thereof involved therein is not then lawfully subject to entry by the contestants, they shall in like manner have the exclusive right to require title thereto, as heretofore provided, within six months after the land becomes liable to legal disposition, of which fact the said register shall notify him or his attorney of record by mail or otherwise.
LA Rev Stat § 41:501 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 41 - Public Lands|§501. Persons entitled to make entry; quantity of land

RS 501 - Persons entitled to make entry; quantity of land  A. Every person who is the head of a family, or has reached the age of twenty-one years and is a citizen of this state may enter one quarter section or a less quantity of the unappropriated public lands of the state, to be located in a body in conformity with the legal subdivisions of the public lands; provided that no lands shall be subject to homestead entry or purchase that is more valuable for gas, oil or minerals. B. Any person owning and residing on lands may enter, under the provisions of this Part, other lands lying contiguous to his land which shall not, with the land so already owned and occupied, exceed in the aggregate, one hundred and sixty acres. C. No person who is the owner of more than one hundred and sixty acres of land in any state or territory shall acquire any rights under this Part.
LA Rev Stat § 41:502 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 41 - Public Lands|§502. Affidavit

RS 502 - Affidavit  A. Any person applying to enter land under the provisions of this Part shall first make and subscribe an affidavit:  (1) That he is the head of a family or has reached the age of twenty-one years and is a citizen of this state;  (2) That the application is made honestly and in good faith for the purpose of actual settlement and cultivation and to obtain a home for himself and not for speculation;  (3) That the application is made for his own use and benefit and not directly or indirectly for the use or benefit of any other person, corporation or syndicate, to give them the benefit of the land or any part thereof or the timber thereon. B. Upon filing the affidavit with the Register of the State Land Office and the payment of ten dollars the applicant may enter the amount of land specified, and the register shall issue to the person his receipt therefor, which receipt shall be dated and numbered and shall describe the land so entered. Amended by Acts 1960, No. 50, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 41:503 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 41 - Public Lands|§503. Sale or incumbrance prior to issuance of patent

RS 503 - Sale or incumbrance prior to issuance of patent  No person entering land under the provisions of this Part may sell, alienate or encumber the lands so entered prior to issuance of patent therefor except for school, church or cemetery purposes, or for right of way for railroads, telephone or telegraph lines, public roads, oil or gas pipe lines, or canals, ditches or conduits for irrigation or drainage through the lands.
LA Rev Stat § 41:504 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 41 - Public Lands|§504. Conditions for issuance of patent

RS 504 - Conditions for issuance of patent  No patent shall issue for any lands entered under the provisions of this Part until after the expiration of five years from the date of the entry. The person making the entry or in case of his death his heirs or devisees shall be entitled to a patent for the land so entered if, at the expiration of the five year period or at a time within two years thereafter he proves by his affidavit and the affidavits of two credible witnesses, taken separately, that he has resided upon and cultivated the land for the term of five years immediately succeeding the date of entry, that no part of the land has been alienated or encumbered, except as provided in R.S. 41:503 and that he has paid to the register of the state land office a fee of five dollars. In case of the death of a homesteader it shall not be necessary for his widow or heirs to prove actual residence upon the land after the date of death, but she shall show continuous cultivation and improvements for the full period of five years from date of entry. Provided that any entry made prior to 1888 and the land described therein has been assessed upon the tax rolls and the taxes thereon paid for a period of more than fifty years subsequent to the date of entry, shall be prima facie evidence that all the conditions and provisions of the law have been complied with and a patent shall issue covering the entry upon the payment of the fee herein provided. Amended by Acts 1950, No. 428, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 41:505 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 41 - Public Lands|§505. Final proof

RS 505 - Final proof  A. Any person desiring to submit final proof under the provisions of R.S. 41:504 shall first file a written notice of his intention to make such proof with the Register of the State Land Office. The notice shall contain the date and number of the register's receipt, a description of the land and the names and postoffice addresses of four neighbors, two of whom must appear as witnesses, to make the proof. B. The register shall then cause to be published for a period of thirty days in a newspaper to be by him designated as the paper published nearest to the land, a notice containing the date and number of the receipt, description of the land, names and addresses of the witnesses, the time and place and the name and official designation of the officer before whom proof is to be made. C. The proof of publication shall be the affidavit of the publisher or foreman of the newspaper with a printed copy of the notice attached. D. The applicant shall deposit with the register a fee of ten dollars to cover the cost of publication, or a receipt from the publisher that the fee has been paid to him in advance. Amended by Acts 1960, No. 50, §2.
LA Rev Stat § 41:506 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 41 - Public Lands|§506. Fees for oaths, affidavits and proofs

RS 506 - Fees for oaths, affidavits and proofs  All oaths, affidavits or proofs required under this Part shall be made before the Register of the State Land Office or before any officer of the parish in which the land is situated who is authorized to administer oaths and who uses a seal. Officers, other than the register, may charge a fee of two dollars for preparing and attesting applications and affidavits for any entry under this Part and a fee of four dollars for preparing final proofs and attesting them.
LA Rev Stat § 41:507 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 41 - Public Lands|§507. Disposition of fees

RS 507 - Disposition of fees  The Register of the State Land Office may turn into the state treasury, and the state treasurer may receive, the fees received under the provisions of this Part.
LA Rev Stat § 41:508 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 41 - Public Lands|§508. Liability for debts

RS 508 - Liability for debts  No lands acquired under the provisions of this Part shall ever become liable for the satisfaction of any debt contracted prior to issuance of patent therefor.
LA Rev Stat § 41:509 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 41 - Public Lands|§509. Reversion to state; preference rights of person filing charges

RS 509 - Reversion to state; preference rights of person filing charges  If, at any time after filing of the affidavit required by R.S. 41:502, and before the issuance of patent therefor, it is proved to the satisfaction of the Register of the State Land Office, after due notice to the homesteader or his legal representatives, that the homesteader failed to establish residence on the land so entered for six months after entry, or has changed his residence therefrom for a period of six months at any time after filing his affidavit and before the expiration of the period of five years residence required by this Part, or that he swore falsely to any material fact in his affidavit or final proof, then, the land shall revert to the state. All appeals from the decisions of the register in such cases shall lie to the district court of the parish in which the lands are situated and shall be tried de novo. The person filing charges against an entryman under this Section, and prosecuting the case to a successful conclusion shall have a preference right of sixty days from final judgment in which to file his application for the land.
LA Rev Stat § 41:510 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 41 - Public Lands|§510. Homestead by discharged veterans; deduction of service time

RS 510 - Homestead by discharged veterans; deduction of service time  Any honorably discharged veteran of World War II may homestead land under the provisions of R.S. 41:501 through 509, and the time served in the armed service of the United States in time of war shall be deducted from the time required to perfect title; provided that no patent shall issue until the entryman has resided upon, improved and cultivated his homestead for a period of at least one year, and provided further that any such patent when issued shall expressly reserve all of the mineral rights in the lands so patented to the state of Louisiana, in pursuance of Article IV, Section 2 of the Constitution.*  Acts 1958, No. 444, §1. *Reference is to 1921 Constitution; see, now, Const. Art. 9, §4.
LA Rev Stat § 41:511 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 41 - Public Lands|§511. Death of homesteader while in service

RS 511 - Death of homesteader while in service  In every case in which a homesteader under R.S. 41:501 through 509 was inducted into the armed services after his entry was allowed and died in service, his widow, if unmarried, or in case of her death or marriage, then his minor orphan children or his or their legal representatives, may proceed forthwith to make final proof upon the land so held by the deceased soldier and settler, and the death of such soldier while engaged in the service of the United States shall, in the administration of the homestead law, be construed to be equivalent to a performance of all requirements as to residence and cultivation for the full period of five years; and upon proof produced to the register of the land office by the widow, if unmarried, or in case of her death or marriage, then his minor orphan children or his or their legal representatives, that the applicant for patent is the widow, if unmarried, or in case of her death or marriage, his orphan children or his or their legal representatives, and that such soldier died while in the service of the United States as hereinbefore described, the patent for such land shall issue; provided that in such patent all mineral rights in the lands so patented shall be expressly reserved to the state of Louisiana, in pursuance of Article IV, Section 2 of the Constitution.*  Acts 1958, No. 444, §2. *Reference is to 1921 Constitution; see, now, Const. Art. 9, §4.
LA Rev Stat § 41:512 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 41 - Public Lands|§512. Scope and application of provisions

RS 512 - Scope and application of provisions  The provisions of R.S. 41:510-41:511 shall apply to any homestead entries made by honorably discharged veterans of the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II and the Korean Conflict, pursuant to the provisions of R.S. 41:501-509 made after the date of the discharge of such veterans and which may now be pending in the office of the register of state lands of the state of Louisiana; provided that all patents issued under the homestead entries aforesaid expressly reserve all mineral rights in the lands so patented to the state of Louisiana, in pursuance of Article IV, Section 2 of the Constitution.*  The terms of R.S. 41:510-41:511 shall be subject to the provisions of R.S. 41:98 and to the executive order issued by the governor under date of March 20, 1917, pursuant to Act 258 of 1912 and Act 38 of 1914. Acts 1958, No. 444, §§3, 4. *Reference is to 1921 Constitution; see, now, Const. Art. 9, §4.
LA Rev Stat § 41:541 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 41 - Public Lands|§541. Homestead entry on tax adjudicated land

RS 541 - Homestead entry on tax adjudicated land  At any time after the lapse of three years from the adjudication of any land to the state for any unpaid taxes due thereon for any year subsequent to January 1st, 1880, where the land has not been redeemed from the tax adjudication and the state has not previously sold the land or contracted with reference thereto, every person who is the head of a family or has reached the age of twenty-one years and is a citizen of this state, may, under the provisions of this Sub-part, make homestead entry of one-quarter section or less quantity of tax adjudicated land of the state, to be located in a body in conformity with the legal subdivisions of the public lands; provided that any patent which may be issued hereunder shall reserve to the state, in perpetuity, all of the oil, gas and other minerals in, on and under the lands so patented. No person who is the owner of as much as one hundred sixty acres of land in any state or territory, shall acquire any rights under this Sub-part; provided that every person owning and residing on lands may enter, under the provisions hereof, such tax adjudicated lands lying contiguous to his lands which shall not, with the land so already owned and occupied by him, exceed in the aggregate one hundred sixty acres.
LA Rev Stat § 41:543 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 41 - Public Lands|§543. Sale or incumbrance prior to issuance of patent

RS 543 - Sale or incumbrance prior to issuance of patent  No person entering land under the provisions of this Sub-part may sell, alienate or encumber the lands so entered prior to issuance of patent therefor, except for school, church, or cemetery purposes, or for right of way for railroads, telephone or telegraph lines, public roads, oil or gas pipe lines, or canals, ditches or conduits for irrigation or drainage through the lands.