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LA Civ Code art. 3234 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3234. Property covered by innkeepers' privilege.

Innkeepers, hotel, boarding house and lodging house keepers enjoy this privilege on all the property which the sojourner has brought to their place, whether it belongs to him or not, because the property so brought into their place has become pledged to them by the mere fact of its introduction into their place. Amended by Acts 1896, No. 35.
LA Civ Code art. 3235 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3235. Travelers, definition.

The term travelers applies to strangers and such as being transiently in a place where they have no domicile, take their board and lodging at an inn.
LA Civ Code art. 3236 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3236. Sale or donation of unclaimed and unredeemed property, procedure.

Whenever any trunk, carpetbag, valise, box, bundle or other baggage which shall hereafter come into the possession of the keeper of any hotel, motel, inn, boarding or lodging house, as such, and shall remain unclaimed or unredeemed for the period of six months, such keeper may proceed to sell the same at public auction, and without judicial proceedings, and out of the proceeds of such sale may retain the amount due him for board, lodging and extras, and the charges for storage, if any, and the expense of advertising and sale thereof, but no such sale shall be made until the expiration of four weeks from the publication of notice of such sale in a newspaper published in or nearest the city, town, village or place in which said hotel, motel, inn, boarding or lodging house is situated. Said notice shall be published once, in some newspaper, daily or weekly, of general circulation, and shall contain a description of each trunk, carpetbag, valise, box, bundle or other baggage as near as may be; the name of the owner, if known; the name of the keeper, and the time and place of sale. The expense incurred for advertising shall be a lien upon such trunk, carpetbag, valise, box, bundle or other baggage in a ratable proportion according to the value of such property, or thing or article sold. In case any balance arising upon such sale shall not be claimed by the rightful owner within one week from the day of said sale the same shall be paid to any authorized charity or state institution. Alternatively, the hotel, motel, inn, boarding house, or lodging house at its discretion may store the unclaimed or unredeemed possessions for six months and at the expiration of this period donate, give or turn them over to an authorized charity, or state institution. Amended by Acts 1896, No. 28; Acts 1974, No. 713, §1.
LA Civ Code art. 3237 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3237. Privileges on ships and vessels, enumeration and ranking; prescription.

The following debts are privileged on the price of ships and other vessels, in the order in which they are placed:  1. Legal and other charges incurred to obtain the sale of a ship or other vessel, and the distribution of the price. 2. Debts for pilotage, towage, wharfage and anchorage. 3. The expenses of keeping the vessel from the time of her entrance into port until sale, including the wages of persons employed to watch her.  4. The rent of stores, in which the rigging and apparel are deposited. 5. The maintenance of the ship and her tackle and apparatus, since her return into port from her last voyage. 6. The wages of the captain and crew employed on the last voyage.  7. Sums lent to the captain for the necessities of the ship during the last voyage, and reimbursement of the price of merchandise sold by him for the same purpose. 8. Sums due to sellers, to those who have furnished materials and to workmen employed in the construction, if the vessel has never made a voyage; and those due to creditors for supplies, labor, repairing, victuals, armament and equipment, previous to the departure of the ship, if she has already made a voyage. 9. Money lent on bottomry for refitting, victualing, arming and equipping the vessel before her departure. 10. The premiums due for insurance made on the vessel, tackle and apparel, and on the armament and equipment of the ship. 11. The amount of damage due to freighters for the failure in delivering goods which they have shipped, or for the reimbursement of damage sustained by the goods through the fault of the captain or crew. 12. Where any loss or damage has been caused to the person or property of any individual by any carelessness, neglect or want of skill in the direction or management of any steamboat, barge, flatboat, water craft or raft, the party injured shall have a privilege to rank after the privileges above specified. The term of prescription of privileges against ships, steamboats and other vessels shall be six months.
LA Civ Code art. 3238 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3238. Proportionate payment to creditors of same rank.

The creditors, named in each number of the preceding article, except number twelve, come in together, and must all suffer a ratable diminution, if the fund be insufficient.
LA Civ Code art. 3239 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3239. Right of pursuit after sale of ship.

Creditors having privileges on ships or other vessels, may pursue the vessel in the possession of any person who has obtained it by virtue of a sale; in this case, however, a distinction must be made between a forced and a voluntary sale.
LA Civ Code art. 3240 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3240. Privilege on price of adjudication in case of forced sale.

When the sale was a forced one, the right of the purchaser to the property becomes irrevocable; he owes only the price of adjudication, and over it the creditors exercise their privilege, in the order above prescribed.
LA Civ Code art. 3241 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3241. Voluntary sale, distinction between sale in port or on voyage.

When the sale is voluntary on the part of the owner, a distinction is to be made, whether the* vessel was in port or on a voyage. *English translation of French text incomplete; should include "ship or other."
LA Civ Code art. 3242 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3242. Voluntary sale of ship in port, rights of privileged creditors.

When a sale has been made, the vessel being in port, the creditors of the vendor, who enjoy the privilege for some cause anterior to the act of sale, may demand payment and enforce their rights over the ship, until a voyage has been made in the name and at the risk of the purchaser, without any claim interposed by them.
LA Civ Code art. 3243 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3243. Loss of privilege after voyage in name of purchaser.

But when the ship has made a voyage in the name and at the risk of the purchaser, without any claim on the part of the privileged creditors of the vendor, these privileges are lost and extinct against the ship, if she was in port at the time of sale.
LA Civ Code art. 3244 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3244. Voluntary sale of ship while on voyage, rights of privileged creditors.

On the other hand, if the ship was on a voyage at the time of sale, the privilege of the creditor against the purchaser shall only become extinct after the ship shall have returned to the port of departure, and the creditors of the vendor shall have allowed her to depart on another voyage for the account and risk of the purchaser, and shall have made no claim.
LA Civ Code art. 3245 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3245. Voyage, definition.

A ship is considered to have made a voyage, when her departure from one port and arrival at another shall have taken place, or when, without having arrived at another, more than sixty days have elapsed between the departure and return to the same port; or when the ship, having departed on a long voyage, has been out more than sixty days, without any claim on the part of persons pretending a privilege.
LA Civ Code art. 3246 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3246. Captain's privilege on cargo for freight charges.

The captain has a privilege for the freight during fifteen days after the delivery of the merchandise, if they have not passed into third hands. He may even keep the goods, unless the shipper or consignee shall give him security for the payment of the freight.
LA Civ Code art. 3247 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3247. Privilege of consignee or agent on merchandise consigned.

Every consignee or commission agent who has made advances on goods consigned to him, or placed in his hands to be sold for account of the consignor, has a privilege for the amount of these advances, with interest and charges on the value of the goods, if they are at his disposal in his stores, or in a public warehouse, or if, before their arrival, he can show, by a bill of lading or letter of advice, that they have been dispatched to him. This privilege extends to the unpaid price of the goods which the consignee or agent shall have thus received and sold. Every consignee, commission agent or factor shall have a privilege, preferred to any attaching creditor, on the goods consigned to him for any balance due him, whether specially advanced on such goods or not; provided they have been received by him, or an invoice or bill of lading has been received by him previous to the attachment; provided, that the privilege established by this article shall not have a preference over a privilege pre-existing on the goods aforesaid in behalf of a resident creditor of this State.
LA Civ Code art. 3248 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3248. Rights of consignor on insolvency of consignee or agent.

In the event of the failure of the consignee or commission agent, the consignor has not only a right to reclaim the goods sent by him, and which remain unsold in the hands of the consignee or agent, if he can prove their identity, but he has also a privilege on the price of such as have been sold, if the price has not been paid by the purchaser, or passed into account current between him and the bankrupt.
LA Civ Code art. 3249 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3249. Special privileges on immovables

  Creditors who have a privilege on immovables are:  (1) The vendor on the estate by him sold, for the payment of the price or so much of it as is unpaid, whether it was sold on or without a credit.  (2) Those who are granted special privileges on immovables by legislation.  Amended by Acts 2019, No. 325, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2020.
LA Civ Code art. 3250 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3250. Extent of vendor's privilege.

The privilege granted to the vendor on the immovable sold by him, extends to the beasts and agricultural implements attached to the estate, and which made part of the sale.
LA Civ Code art. 3251 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3251. Successive sales, preference among vendors

If there are several successive sales, on which the price is due wholly or in part, the first vendor is preferred to the second, the second to the third, and so throughout and as provided by Article 3186, and assuming timely recordation as provided in Article 3274, each such vendor is preferred to the previously recorded mortgages of his vendees and their successors. Acts 1989, No. 538, §1.
LA Civ Code art. 3252 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3252. General privileges on both movables and immovables.

The privileges which extend alike to movables and immovables are the following:  1. Funeral charges. 2. Judicial charges. 3. Expenses of last illness. 4. The wages of servants. 5. The salaries of secretaries, clerks and other agents of that kind. Whenever a surviving spouse or minor children of a deceased person shall be left in necessitous circumstances, and not possess in their own rights property to the amount of one thousand dollars, the surviving spouse or the legal representatives of the children, shall be entitled to demand and receive from the succession of the deceased spouse or parent, a sum which added to the amount of property owned by them, or either of them, in their own right, will make up the sum of one thousand dollars, and which amount shall be paid in preference to all other debts, except those secured by the vendor's privilege on both movables and immovables, conventional mortgages, and expenses incurred in selling the property. The surviving spouse shall have and enjoy the usufruct of the amount so received from the deceased spouse's succession, until remarriage, which amount shall afterwards vest in and belong to the children or other descendants of the deceased spouse. (Amended by Acts 1917, Ex.Sess.) No. 17; Acts 1918, No. 242; Acts 1979, No. 711, §1.
LA Civ Code art. 3253 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3253. Order of payment of privileges; debtor's movables taken before immovables.

When, for want of movables, the creditors, who have a privilege according to the preceding article, demand to be paid out of the proceeds of the immovables of the debtor, the payment must be made in the order laid down in the following chapter.
LA Civ Code art. 3254 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3254. Special privileges prime general privileges on movables; ranking among general privileges when movables sufficient.

If the movable property, not subject to any special privilege, is sufficient to pay the debts which have a general privilege on the movables, those debts are paid in the following order:  Funeral charges are the first paid. Law charges, the second. Expenses of the last illness, the third. The wages of servants, the fourth. Supplies of provisions, the fifth. The salaries of clerks, secretaries, and others of that nature, the sixth.  The thousand dollars secured by law to the surviving spouse or minor children, as set forth in Article 3252, shall be paid in preference to all other debts, except those for the vendor's privileges and expenses incurred in selling the property. Amended by Acts 1979, No. 711, §1.
LA Civ Code art. 3255 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3255. Order of payment when available movables insufficient.

But when part of the movables are subject to special privileges, and the remainder of the movables are not sufficient to discharge the debts having a privilege on the whole mass of movables, or if there be equality* between the special privileges, the following rules shall direct the determination. *In this context, the French word "concurrence" would be translated more properly by "competition" than by "equality."
LA Civ Code art. 3256 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3256. Lessor's privilege primed by costs of sale.

Whatever may be the privilege of the lessor, charges for selling the movables subjected to it are paid before that which is due for the rent, because it is these charges which procure the payment of the rent.
LA Civ Code art. 3257 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3257. Lessor's privilege primed by funeral charges.

The case is the same with respect to the funeral expenses of the debtor and his family; when there is no other source from which they can be paid, they have a preference over the debt for rent or hire, on the price of the movables contained in the house or on the farm.
LA Civ Code art. 3258 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3258. Lessor's privilege primes other general privileges.

But the lessor has a preference on the price of these movables, over all the other privileged debts of the deceased, such as expenses of the last illness, and others which have a general privilege on the movables.
LA Civ Code art. 3259 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3259. Lessor's privilege on crops primed by supplies and labor.

With regard to the crops which are subject to the lessor's privilege, the expenses for seed and labor, the wages of overseers and managers are to be paid out of the product of the year, in preference to the lessor's debt.  So, also, he who supplied the farming utensils, and who has not been paid, is paid in preference to the lessor out of the price of their sale.
LA Civ Code art. 3260 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3260. Ranking between privileges of lessor and depositor.

If, among the movables with which the house or farm, or any other thing subject to the lessor's privilege, is provided, there should be some which were deposited by a third person in the hands of the lessor* or farmer, the lessor shall have a preference over the depositary** on the things deposited for the payment of his rent, if there are no other movables subject to his privilege, or if they are not sufficient; unless it be proved that the lessor knew that the things deposited did not belong to his tenant or farmer. Amended by Acts 1871, No. 87. *Note error in English translation of French text; "lessor" should be "lessee." **Note error in English translation of French text; "depositary" should be "depositor."
LA Civ Code art. 3261 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3261. Depositor's privilege and other privileges.

With the exception stated in the foregoing article, the privilege of the depositor on the thing deposited is not preceded by any other privileged debt, even funeral expenses, unless it be that the depositor must contribute to the expense of sealing and making inventory, because this expense is necessary to the preservation of the deposit.
LA Civ Code art. 3262 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3262. Privilege for expenses of preservation and other privileges.

The privilege of him who has taken care of the property of another, has a preference over that property, for the necessary expenses which he incurred, above all the other claims for expenses, even funeral charges; his privilege yields only to that for the charges on the sale of the thing preserved.
LA Civ Code art. 3263 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3263. Vendor's privilege and other privileges.

The privilege of the vendor on movables sold by him, which are still in the possession of the vendee, yields to that of the owner of the house or farm which they serve to furnish or supply, for his rents. It yields also to the charges for affixing seals and making inventories, but not to the funeral or other expenses of the debtor.
LA Civ Code art. 3264 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3264. Privilege of innkeepers.

The privilege of innkeepers on the effects of travelers deceased in their house, is postponed to funeral and law charges, but is preferred* to all the other privileged debts of the deceased. *English translation of French text incomplete; should include "on the price of these effects."
LA Civ Code art. 3265 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3265. Privilege of carriers.

The privilege of carriers, for the cost of transportation and incidental expenses, yields only to the charges which would arise on the sale of the goods. The case is the same respecting the freight of goods carried on board a ship or other vessels [vessel].
LA Civ Code art. 3266 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3266. Immovables liable when movables insufficient.

If the movables of the debtor, by reason of the special privileges affecting them or for any other cause, are not sufficient to discharge the debts having a privilege on the whole movable property, the balance must be raised on the immovables of the debtor, as hereafter provided.
LA Civ Code art. 3267 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3267. Special privileges on immovables and other privileges

  If the immovables of the debtor are subject to vendor's privileges or other special privileges, the vendors and creditors having other special privileges shall be paid from the price of the object affected in their favor, in preference to other privileged debts of the debtor, even funeral charges, except the charges for affixing seals, making inventories, and others which may have been necessary to procure the sale of the thing.  Amended by Acts 2019, No. 325, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2020.
LA Civ Code art. 3269 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3269. Order of payment out of immovables; distribution of loss among mortgage creditors.

  With the exception of special privileges that exist on immovables in favor of vendors and other creditors, as declared above, the debts privileged on the movables and immovables generally ought to be paid, if the movables are insufficient, out of the product of the immovables belonging to the debtor, in preference to all other privileged and mortgage creditors.  The loss which may then result from their payment must be borne by the creditor whose mortgage is the least ancient, and so in succession, ascending according to the order of the mortgages, or by pro rata contributions where two or more mortgages have the same date.  Amended by Acts 2019, No. 325, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2020.
LA Civ Code art. 3270 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3270. Effect of priorities among privileges.

When the debts privileged on the movables and immovables can not be paid entirely, either because the movable effects are of small value, or subject to special privileges which claim a preference, or because the movables and immovables together do not suffice, the deficiency must not be borne proportionally among the debtors,* but the debts must be paid according to the order established above, and the loss must fall on those which are of inferior dignity.** *Note error in English translation of French text; "debtors" should be "debts." **English translation of French text incomplete; should include "and which cannot be discharged."
LA Civ Code art. 3271 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3271. Vendor's privilege on immovables, recordation.

The vendor of an immovable only preserves his privilege on the object, when he has caused to be duly recorded at the office for recording mortgages, his act of sale, in the manner directed hereafter, whatever may be the amount due to him on the sale.
LA Civ Code art. 3273 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3273. Recordation, effect against third persons.

Privileges are valid against third persons, from the date of the recording of the act or evidence of indebtedness as provided by law.
LA Civ Code art. 3274 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3274. Time and place of recordation; effectiveness.

  No privilege shall have effect against third persons, unless recorded in the manner required by law in the parish where the property to be affected is situated. It shall confer no preference on the creditor who holds it, over creditors who have acquired a mortgage, unless the act or other evidence of the debt is recorded within seven days from the date of the act or obligation of indebtedness when the registry is required to be made in the parish where the act was passed or the indebtedness originated and within fifteen days, if the registry is required to be made in any other parish of this state. It shall, however, have effect against all parties from date of registry.   The provisions of this Article are subject to exceptions provided by legislation.  Amended by Acts 1877, No. 45; Acts 2019, No. 325, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2020.
LA Civ Code art. 3276 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3276. Priority of claims against succession arising after death.

The charges against a succession, such as funeral charges, law charges, lawyer fees for settling the succession, the thousand dollars secured in certain cases to the surviving spouse or minor heirs of the deceased, and all claims against the succession originating after the death of the person whose succession is under administration, are to be paid before the debts contracted by the deceased person, except as otherwise provided for herein, and they are not required to be recorded. Amended by Acts 1979, No. 711, §1.
LA Civ Code art. 3277 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3277. Methods of extinction.

Privileges become extinct:  1. By the extinction of the thing subject to the privilege. 2. By the creditor acquiring the thing subject to it. 3. By the extinction of debt which gave birth to it. 4. By prescription.
LA Civ Code art. 3278 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 3278. Mortgage defined

Mortgage is a nonpossessory right created over property to secure the performance of an obligation. Acts 1991, No. 652, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1992.