Opinion ID: 597120
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Louisiana Codes

Text: 48 The classifications of the Code Napoleon (or, more accurately, of its projet) were adopted by the redactors of the Louisiana Digest of Civil Laws in 1808. Thereafter, Louisiana had no general hypotheca in regard to movables ... until 1912, when the first chattel mortgage act was passed, applying only to corporeal movables. 29 49 The translation from French to English in the Louisiana Civil Code of 1825 renders d'hypothequer or to hypothecate as to mortgage. An example, found in article 3116, under Title 19 governing Pledge, read: where the power of attorney contains a general authority to mortgage the property [pouvoir general d'hypothequer les biens] of the principal, this power includes that of giving it in pledge [de les donner en nantissement ]. 30 This language survives as article 3149 of the Revised Civil Code of 1870. The hypothecary action for enforcement of the real security right obtained through mortgage survives in the Louisiana Civil Code 31 and in the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure as well. 32 50