Civil Code

La. Laws div. CC

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section1. Sources of law section2. Legislation section3. Custom section4. Absence of legislation or custom section5. Ignorance of law section6. Retroactivity of laws section7. Laws for the preservation of the public interest section8. Repeal of laws section9. Clear and unambiguous law section10. Language susceptible of different meanings section11. Meaning of words section12. Ambiguous words section13. Laws on the same subject matter section14. Use of sex section15. Use of number section24. Kinds of persons section25. Commencement and end of natural personality section26. Unborn child section27. General legal capacity section28. Capacity to make juridical acts section29. Age of majority section30. Presumption of death section31. Existence of a person at time of accrual of a right section38. Domicile section39. Domicile and residence section40. Domicile of spouses section41. Domicile of unemancipated minor section42. Domicile of interdict section43. Domicile of person under continued or permanent tutorship section44. Change of domicile section45. Proof of intent to change domicile section46. Person holding temporary position section47. Curator of an absent person's property section48. Powers, rights, and duties of curator section49. Legal capacity of absent person section50. Termination of curatorship of right section51. Termination by judgment of declaration of death section52. Effects of termination of curatorship section53. Validity of acts of curator after termination of the curatorship section54. Absent person; declaration of death section55. Declaration of death; effect section56. New evidence as to time of death section57. Reappearance of absent person; recovery of his property section58. Succession rights of person presumed dead or declared dead section59. Reappearance of absent person; recovery of his inheritance section60. repealed by Acts 1990, No. 989, §1, eff. January 1, 1991.section86. Marriage; definition section87. Contract of marriage; requirements section88. Impediment of existing marriage section89. Impediment of same sex section90. Impediments of relationship section90.1. Impediment of age section91. Marriage ceremony required section92. Marriage by procuration prohibited section93. Vices of consent section94. Absolutely null marriage section95. Relatively null marriage; confirmation section96. Civil effects of absolutely null marriage; putative marriage section97. Civil effects of relatively null marriage section98. Mutual duties of married persons section99. Family authority section100. Surname of married persons section101. Termination of marriage section102. Judgment of divorce; living separate and apart prior to rule section103. Judgment of divorce; other grounds section103.1. Judgment of divorce; time periods section104. Reconciliation section105. Determination of incidental matters section111. Spousal support; authority of court section112. Determination of final periodic support section113. Interim spousal support section114. Modification or termination of award of support section115. Extinguishment of support obligation section116. Modification of spousal support obligation section117. Peremptive period for obligation section118. Repealed by Acts 2018, No. 265, §2.section121. Claim for contributions to education or training; authority of court section122. Nature of action section123. Form of award; effect of remarriage or death section124. Prescription of spousal claim for contributions section131. Court to determine custody section132. Award of custody to parents section133. Award of custody to person other than a parent; order of preference section134. Factors in determining child's best interest section135. Closed custody hearing section136. Award of visitation rights section136.1. Award of visitation rights section137. Denial of visitation; sex offense; death of a parent section138. Modification of custody award section141. Child support; authority of court section142. Modification or termination of child support award section149. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1009, §9, eff. Jan. 1, 1991.section150. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1009, §9, eff. Jan. 1, 1991.section151. Proceeding for declaration of nullity of a marriage; interim incidental relief section152. Proceeding for declaration of nullity of a marriage; final incidental relief section153. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1009, §9, eff. Jan. 1, 1991.section154. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1009, §9, eff. Jan. 1, 1991.section155. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1009, §9, eff. Jan. 1, 1991.section156. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1009, §9, eff. Jan. 1, 1991.section159. Effect of divorce on community property regime section160. [Blank]section161. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1008, §6, eff. Jan. 1, 1991.section162. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 705, §1.section178. Definition section179. Establishment of filiation section184. Maternity section185. Presumption of paternity of husband section186. Presumption if child is born after divorce or after death of husband; effect of disavowal section187. Disavowal action; proof section188. Disavowal precluded in case of assisted conception section189. Time limit for disavowal by the husband section190. Time limit for disavowal by heir or legatee section190.1. Three-party acknowledgment; alternative to disavowal; time period section191. Contestation and establishment of paternity by mother section192. Contestation action; proof section193. Contestation and establishment of paternity; time period section194. Judgment in contestation action section195. Presumption by marriage and acknowledgment; child not filiated to another man; proof; time period section196. Formal acknowledgment; presumption section197. Child's action to establish paternity; proof; time period section198. Father's action to establish paternity; time period section199. Effect of adoption section200. Adoption of minors section201. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 192, §1, eff. June 29, 2005.section202. Repealed by Acts 1979, No. 607, §4.section203. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 192, §1, eff. June 29, 2005.section204. Repealed by Acts 1979, No. 607, §4.section205. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 192, §1, eff. June 29, 2005.section206. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 192, §1, eff. June 29, 2005.section207. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 192, §1, eff. June 29, 2005.section208. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 192, §1, eff. June 29, 2005.section209. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 192, §1, eff. June 29, 2005.section210. Repealed by Acts 1980, No. 549, §2.section211. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 192, §1, eff. June 29, 2005.section212. Adult adoption requirements section213. Adult adoption; form section214. Adult adoption; recordation requirement section215. Repealed by Acts 2015, No. 260, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2016.section216. Repealed by Acts 2015, No. 260, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2016.section217. Repealed by Acts 2015, No. 260, §1 and 5, eff. Jan. 1, 2016.section218. Repealed by Acts 2015, No. 260, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2016.section219. Repealed by Acts 2015, No. 260, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2016.section220. Repealed by Acts 2015, No. 260, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2016.section221. Authority of married parents section222. Representation of minor section223. Rights and obligations of parental authority section224. Parental obligation of support and education section225. Parental liability for child's offenses and quasi-offenses section226. Parental obligation of direction section227. Parental control section228. Child's obligation of obedience; parental correction section229. Administration of the property of the child section230. Alienation, encumbrance, or lease of the property of the child; expenditure of fruits section231. Parents' obligation to deliver and account section232. Parental authority section233. Delegation of parental authority section234. Parental authority; custody award section235. Termination of parental authority section236. Filial honor and respect section237. Obligation of providing the basic necessities of life; ascendants and descendants; exceptions section238. Amount of support section239. Modification or termination of support section240. Repealed by Acts 2015, No. 260, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2016.section241. Repealed by Acts 2015, No. 260, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2016.section242. Repealed by Acts 2015, No. 260, §1 and 5, eff. Jan. 1, 2016.section243. Repealed by Acts 2015, No. 260, §1 and 5, eff. Jan. 1, 2016.section244. Repealed by Acts 2015, No. 260, §1 and 5, eff. Jan. 1, 2016.section245. Repealed by Acts 2015, No. 260, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2016.section246. Occasion for tutorship.section247. Kinds of tutorships.section248. Modes of establishment of tutorships.section249. Accountability of tutor.section250. Persons entitled to tutorship section251. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.section252. Unborn and posthumous children.section253. Repealed by Acts 1974, No. 163, §2.section254. , 255 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, §2 section256. Children born outside of marriage section257. Surviving parent's right of appointment.section258. Right of appointment where parents are divorced or separated section259. Option of acceptance of tutorship.section260. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.section261. Child born outside of marriage section262. Appointment of several tutors; order of priority.section263. Qualified ascendants; collaterals by blood; surviving spouse.section270. Occasion for tutorship.section273. Necessity for appointment.section278. Liability concerning minor's legal mortgage.section279. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.section280. Termination of undertutorship.section281. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.section292. Excuse by reason of office or function.section293. Waiver of excuse by subsequent acceptance of tutorship.section294. Subsequently acquired excuse.section295. Excuse for remote relationship.section296. Excuse for age.section297. Excuse for infirmity.section298. Excuse for prior tutorships section299. Time to present excuse.section300. Provisional administration pending consideration of excuse.section301. Parent's unconditional obligation of tutorship.section302. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, §2 section307. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.section308. Duty to apply for appointment.section309. Minors exempt from taking application.section310. Liability for failure to make application.section311. Action for damages; prescription.section322. Minor's legal mortgage on tutor's property.section333. Sale of mortgaged property by one claimant; inscription of legal mortgage of remaining minors.section336. Alienation of minor's immovables.section337. Repealed by Acts 2001, No. 572, §2.section338. Interest.section339. Agreements between tutor and minor.section340. Prescription of minor's action against tutor.section354. Placing under continuing tutorship section355. Petition for full or limited continuing tutorship section356. Title of proceedings; procedural rules; parent to be named tutor section357. Decree; place of recording; notice section358. Full continuing tutorship; authority; privileges and duties of tutor and undertutor section358.1. Limited continuing tutorship; authority; privileges and duties of tutor and undertutor section358.2. Termination of continuing tutorship section359. Restriction on legal capacity section360. Parents' rights of administration section361. Contest of decree restricting legal capacity section362. Persons subject to interdiction section365. Emancipation section366. Judicial emancipation section367. Emancipation by marriage section368. Limited emancipation by authentic act section369. Emancipation; when effective section370. Modification and termination of judicial emancipation section371. Modification or termination of limited emancipation by authentic act section389. Full interdiction section390. Limited interdiction section391. Temporary and preliminary interdiction section392. Curators section393. Undercurators section394. Pre-interdiction juridical acts section395. Capacity to make juridical acts section396. Effective date of judgment of interdiction section397. Modification and termination of interdiction section398. Effective date of modification or termination of a judgment of interdiction section399. Responsibility for wrongful filing of interdiction petition section448. Division of things.section449. Common things.section450. Public things.section451. Seashore.section452. Public things and common things subject to public use.section453. Private things.section454. Freedom of disposition by private persons.section455. Private things subject to public use.section456. Banks of navigable rivers or streams.section457. Roads; public or private.section458. Works obstructing the public use.section459. Building encroaching on public way.section460. Construction of navigation facilities on public places by port commissions or municipalities.section461. Corporeals and incorporeals.section462. Tracts of land.section463. Component parts of tracts of land.section464. Buildings and standing timber as separate immovables.section465. Things incorporated into an immovable.section466. Component parts of a building or other construction section467. Immovables by declaration.section468. Deimmobilization.section469. Transfer or encumbrance of immovable.section470. Incorporeal immovables.section471. Corporeal movables.section472. Building materials.section473. Incorporeal movables.section474. Movables by anticipation.section475. Things not immovable.section476. Rights in things.section477. Ownership; content section478. Resolutory condition; real right in favor of other person.section479. Necessity of a person.section480. Co-ownership.section481. Ownership and possession distinguished.section482. Accession.section483. Ownership of fruits by accession.section484. Young of animals.section485. Fruits produced by a third person; reimbursement.section486. Possessor's right to fruits.section487. Possessor in good faith; definition.section488. Products; reimbursement of expenses.section489. Apportionment of fruits.section490. Accession above and below the surface.section491. Buildings, other constructions, standing timber, and crops.section492. Separate ownership of part of a building.section493. Ownership of improvements section493.1. Ownership of component parts section493.2. Loss of ownership by accession; claims of former owner section494. Constructions by landowner with materials of another.section495. Things incorporated in, or attached to, an immovable with the consent of the owner of the immovable.section496. Constructions by possessor in good faith.section497. Constructions by bad faith possessor.section498. Claims against third persons section499. Alluvion and dereliction.section500. Shore of the sea or of a lake.section501. Division of alluvion.section502. Sudden action of waters.section503. Island formed by river opening a new channel.section504. Ownership of abandoned bed when river changes course.section505. Islands and sandbars in navigable rivers.section506. Ownership of beds of nonnavigable rivers or streams.section507. Accession as between movables.section508. Things principal and accessory section509. Value or bulk as a basis to determine principal thing.section510. Union of a principal and an accessory thing.section511. Ownership of new thing made with materials of another.section512. Effect of bad faith.section513. Use of materials of two owners; separation or co-ownership.section514. Mixture of materials.section515. Recovery of materials or value in lieu of ownership.section516. Liability for unauthorized use of a movable.section517. Voluntary transfer of ownership of an immovable section518. Voluntary transfer of the ownership of a movable section519. Transfer of action for recovery of movable.section520. Transfer of ownership by merchant section521. Lost or stolen thing.section522. Transfer of ownership by owner under annullable title.section523. Good faith; definition.section524. Recovery of lost or stolen things.section525. Registered movables section526. Recognition of ownership; recovery of the thing.section527. Necessary expenses.section528. Useful expenses.section529. Right of retention.section530. Presumption of ownership of movable.section531. Proof of ownership of immovable section532. Common author.section533. Kinds of servitudes.section534. Personal servitude.section535. Usufruct.section536. Consumable things.section537. Nonconsumable things.section538. Usufruct of consumable things section539. Usufruct of nonconsumable things.section540. Nature of usufruct.section541. Divisibility of usufruct.section542. Divisibility of naked ownership.section543. Partition of the property in kind or by licitation section544. Methods of establishing usufruct; things susceptible of usufruct.section545. Modifications of usufruct.section546. Usufruct in favor of successive usufructuaries.section547. Usufruct in favor of several usufructuaries.section548. Existence of usufructuaries.section549. Capacity to receive usufruct section550. Right to all fruits.section551. Kinds of fruits.section552. Corporate distributions.section553. Voting of shares of stock and other rights section554. Commencement of the right to fruits.section555. Nonapportionment of natural fruits.section556. Apportionment of civil fruits.section557. Possession and use of the things.section558. Improvements and alterations section559. Accessories.section560. Trees, stones, and other materials.section561. Mines and quarries.section562. Usufruct of timberlands.section563. Alluvion.section564. Treasure.section565. Predial servitudes.section566. Actions.section567. Contracts affecting the usufructuary's liability section568. Disposition of nonconsumable things section568.1. Donation and alienation section568.2. Right to lease section568.3. Requirement to remove encumbrance section569. Duties with regard to things gradually or totally impaired section570. Inventory.section571. Security section572. Amount of security.section573. Dispensation of security section574. Delay in giving security section575. Failure to give security section576. Standard of care.section577. Liability for repairs section578. Ordinary and extraordinary repairs.section579. Rights of action for repairs.section580. Reimbursement for necessary repairs section581. Liability for necessary expenses section582. Abandonment of usufruct.section583. Ruin from accident, force majeure , or age section584. Periodic charges section585. Extraordinary charges.section586. Liability for debts; usufruct inter vivos section587. Liability for debts; usufruct established mortis causa section588. Discharge of debt on encumbered property; usufruct established inter vivos section589. Discharge of debt on encumbered property by mortis causa usufructuary section590. Encumbered property; discharge of debt on encumbered property by naked owner section591. Continuation of usufruct after sale of property section592. Multiple usufructuaries; contribution to payment of estate debts section593. Discharge of legacy of annuity section594. Court costs; expenses of litigation section595. Expenses of litigation; legal usufruct.section596. Expenses of litigation; conventional usufruct.section597. Liability of the usufructuary for servitudes.section598. Duty to give information to owner.section599. Usufruct of a herd of animals.section600. Disposition of animals.section601. Removal of improvements section602. Set off against damages.section603. Disposition of the naked ownership; alienation or encumbrance of the property section604. Servitudes section605. Toleration of the enjoyment.section606. Improvements.section607. Death of the usufructuary.section608. Dissolution of juridical person; thirty year limitation section609. Termination of legacy of revenues.section610. Usufruct for a term or under condition.section611. Term; transfer of usufruct to another person.section612. Term; third person reaching a certain age.section613. Loss, extinction, or destruction of property section614. Fault of a third person.section615. Change of the form of property section616. Sale or exchange of the property; taxes section617. Proceeds of insurance.section618. Security for proceeds section619. Changes made by the testator section620. Sale of the property or of the usufruct section621. Prescription of nonuse.section622. Confusion of usufruct and naked ownership.section623. Abuse of the enjoyment; consequences section624. Security to prevent termination section625. Intervention by creditors of the usufructuary section626. Renunciation; rights of creditors.section627. Right of retention.section628. Consequences of termination; usufruct of nonconsumables.section629. Consequences of termination; usufruct of consumables.section630. Habitation.section631. Establishment and extinction.section632. Regulation by title.section633. Persons residing in the house.section634. Extent of right of habitation.section635. Degree of care; duty to restore the property.section636. Taxes, repairs, and other charges.section637. Nontransferable and nonheritable right.section638. Duration of habitation.section639. Right of use.section640. Content of the servitude.section641. Persons having the servitude.section642. Extent of the servitude.section643. Transferable right.section644. Heritable right.section645. Regulation of the servitude.section646. Predial servitude; definition.section647. Benefit to dominant estate.section648. Contiguity or proximity of the estates.section649. Nature; incorporeal immovable.section650. Inseparability of servitude section651. Obligations of the owner of the servient estate section652. Indivisibility of servitude.section653. Division of advantages.section654. Kinds of predial servitudes.section655. Natural drainage section656. Obligations of the owners section657. Estate bordering on running water.section658. Estate through which water runs.section659. Legal servitudes; notion.section660. Keeping buildings in repair section661. Building in danger of falling.section662. Building near a wall.section663. Projections over boundary.section664. Rain drip from roof.section665. Legal public servitudes section666. River road; substitution if destroyed or impassable.section667. Limitations on use of property section668. Inconvenience to neighbor.section669. Regulation of inconvenience.section670. Encroaching building.section671. Destruction of private property to arrest fire.section672. Other legal servitudes.section673. Common wall servitude.section674. Contribution by neighbor.section675. Presumption of common wall.section676. Adjoining wall.section677. Rights and obligations of co-owners.section678. Cost of repairs.section679. Abandonment of common wall.section680. Rights in common walls.section681. Opening in common wall.section682. Raising the height of common wall.section683. Neighbor's right to make the raised part common.section684. Enclosures.section685. Common fences.section686. Common ditches.section687. Trees, bushes, and plants on the boundary.section688. Branches or roots of trees, bushes, or plants on neighboring property.section689. Enclosed estate; right of passage section690. Extent of passage section691. Constructions section692. Location of passage section693. Enclosed estate; voluntary act section694. Enclosed estate; voluntary alienation or judicial partition section695. Relocation of servitude section696. Indemnity section696.1. Repealed by Acts 2025, No. 27, §3.section697. Right to establish predial servitudes; limitations.section698. Property susceptible of servitudes.section699. Examples of predial servitudes.section700. Servitude of support.section701. Servitude of view.section702. Prohibition of view.section703. Servitude of light.section704. Prohibition of light.section705. Servitude of passage section706. Servitudes; affirmative or negative.section707. Servitudes; apparent or nonapparent.section708. Establishment of predial servitude.section709. Mandatary.section710. Naked owner.section711. Usufructuary.section712. Owner for a term or under condition.section713. Purchaser with reservation of redemption.section714. Co-owner; servitude on entire estate.section715. Exercise of the servitude.section716. Servitude on undivided part.section717. Partition in kind.section718. Partition by licitation.section719. Successor of the co-owner.section720. Additional servitudes.section721. Servitude on mortgaged property.section722. Modes of establishment.section723. Servitudes on public things.section724. Multiple dominant or servient estates.section725. Reciprocal servitudes.section726. Servitude on after-acquired property.section727. Servitude on part of an estate.section728. Limitation of use.section729. Conventional alteration of legal or natural servitude.section730. Interpretation of servitude.section731. Charge expressly for the benefit of an estate.section732. Interpretation in the absence of express declaration.section733. Interpretation; benefit of dominant estate.section734. Interpretation; convenience of a person.section735. Persons acquiring servitude.section736. Capacity to acquire servitude.section737. Renunciation of servitude by owner of dominant estate.section738. No revocation by grantor.section739. Acquisition by title only.section740. Modes of acquisition of servitudes.section741. Destination of the owner.section742. Acquisitive prescription.section743. Accessory rights.section744. Necessary works; cost of repairs.section745. Right to enter into the servient estate.section746. Exoneration from responsibility by abandonment of the servient estate.section747. Division of dominant estate.section748. Noninterference by the owner of servient estate.section749. Extent and manner of use of servitude when title is silent.section750. Location of servitude when the title is silent.section751. Destruction of dominant or of servient estate.section752. Reestablishment of things.section753. Prescription for nonuse.section754. Commencement of nonuse.section755. Obstacle to servitude.section756. Failure to rebuild dominant or servient estate.section757. Sufficiency of acts by third persons.section758. Imprescriptibility of natural servitudes.section759. Partial use.section760. More extensive use than title.section761. Use of accessory right.section762. Use by co-owner.section763. Minority or other disability.section764. Burden of proof of use.section765. Confusion.section766. Resolutory condition.section767. Acceptance of succession; confusion section768. Confusion; separate and community property.section769. Irrevocability of extinction by confusion.section770. Abandonment of servient estate.section771. Renunciation of servitude.section772. Renunciation by owner.section773. Expiration of time or happening of condition.section774. Dissolution of the right of the grantor.section775. Building restrictions.section776. Establishment section777. Nature and regulation.section778. Affirmative duties section779. Injunctive relief.section780. Amendment and termination of building restrictions section781. Termination; liberative prescription section782. Abandonment of plan or of restriction.section783. Matters of interpretation and application section784. Boundary; marker.section785. Fixing of the boundary.section786. Persons who may compel fixing of boundary.section787. Lessee may compel lessor.section788. Imprescriptibility of the right.section789. Fixing of boundary judicially or extrajudicially.section790. Costs.section791. Liability for unauthorized removal of markers.section792. Fixing of boundary according to ownership or possession section793. Determination of ownership according to titles.section794. Determination of ownership according to prescription.section795. Effect of boundary agreement.section796. Error in the location of markers; rectification.section797. Ownership in indivision; definition section798. Right to fruits and products section799. Liability of a co-owner section800. Preservation of the thing section801. Use and management by agreement section802. Right to use the thing section803. Use and management of the thing in the absence of agreement section804. Substantial alterations or improvements section805. Disposition of undivided share section806. Expenses of maintenance and management section807. Right to partition; exclusion by agreement section808. Partition excluded section809. Judicial and extrajudicial partition section810. Partition in kind section811. Partition by licitation or by private sale section812. Effect of partition on real rights section813. Partition in kind section814. Rescission of partition for lesion section815. Partition by licitation section816. Partition in kind; warranty section817. Imprescriptibility of action section818. Other rights held in indivision section819. Repealed by Acts 1977, No. 514, §1.section823. Repealed by Acts 1977, No. 170, §1 section856. Repealed by Acts 1977, No. 169, §1.section870. Modes of acquiring ownership section871. Meaning of succession section872. Meaning of estate section873. Kinds of succession section874. Testate succession section875. Intestate succession section876. Kinds of successors section877. Repealed by Acts 2001, No. 572, §2.section878. Repealed by Acts 2001, No. 572, §2.section879. Repealed by Acts 2001, No. 572, §2.section880. Intestate succession section881. Representation: effect section882. Representation in direct line of descendants section883. Representation of ascendants not permissible section884. Representation in collateral line section885. Basis of partition in cases of representation section886. Representation of deceased persons only section887. Representation of decedent whose succession was renounced section888. Succession rights of descendants section889. Devolution of community property section890. Usufruct of surviving spouse section891. Devolution of separate property; parents and brothers and sisters section892. Devolution of separate property in absence of parents or in absence of brothers and sisters section893. Brothers and sisters related by half-blood section894. Separate property; rights of surviving spouse section895. Separate property; rights of other ascendants section896. Separate property; rights of other collaterals section897. Repealed by Acts 2022, No. 40, §1.section898. Repealed by Acts 2022, No. 40, §1.section899. Nearest in degree among more remote relations section900. Degrees of relationship section901. Direct and collateral relationship section902. Rights of the state section903. Repealed by Acts 1981, No. 919, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.section934. Commencement of succession section935. Acquisition of ownership; seizin section936. Continuation of the possession of decedent section937. Transmission of rights of successor section938. Exercise of succession rights section939. Existence of successor section940. Same; unborn child section941. Declaration of unworthiness section942. Persons who may bring action section943. Reconciliation or forgiveness section944. Prescription section945. Effects of declaration of unworthiness section946. Devolution of succession rights of successor declared unworthy section947. Right of successor to accept or renounce section948. Minor successor deemed to accept section949. Death of decedent as prerequisite to acceptance or renunciation section950. Knowledge required of successor as prerequisite to acceptance or renunciation section951. Nullity of premature acceptance or renunciation section952. Probate or annulment of testament after acceptance or renunciation of succession section953. Legacy subject to a suspensive condition section954. Retroactive effects of acceptance and renunciation section955. [Reserved]section956. Claims of successor who is a creditor of the estate section957. Formal or informal acceptance section958. Informal acceptance; use or disposition of property section959. Informal acceptance; act of ownership section960. Donative renunciation deemed acceptance section961. Effect of acceptance section962. Presumption of acceptance section963. Requirement of formality section964. Accretion upon renunciation in intestate successions section965. Accretion upon renunciation in testate successions section966. Acceptance or renunciation of accretion section967. Acceptance of succession by creditor section968. [Reserved]section969. [Blank]section1075. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.section1095. Vacant succession, definition.section1096. Intestate succession, definition.section1097. Vacant succession; administration by administrators.section1098. , 1099 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.section1100. Liability for unauthorized possession of vacant succession.section1101. , 1102 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.section1103. Repealed by Acts 1980, No. 150, §3, eff. Jan. 1, 1981.section1104. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.section1113. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.section1133. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.section1138. Repealed by Acts 1980, No. 150, §3, eff. Jan. 1, 1981.section1146. , 1147 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.section1148. Interest on succession funds; liability for private use.section1149. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.section1158. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.section1162. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.section1171. Persons authorized to make sale.section1172. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.section1188. Unpaid new creditors' action against paid creditors; prescription.section1189. , 1190 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.section1191. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.section1192. Termination of curator's duties on appearance of heirs.section1193. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.section1210. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.section1220. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.section1221. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.section1224. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.section1227. Collation, definition.section1228. Collation by descendants section1229. Reasons for collation.section1230. Presumption in favor of collation.section1231. Express exclusion of collation; extra portion.section1232. Method of declaring dispensation from collation section1233. Sufficiency of declaration.section1234. Reduction of donations exceeding disposable portion; calculation of legitime.section1235. Persons entitled to demand collation section1236. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 147, §3, eff. July 1, 1990.section1237. Renouncing heir's right to donations not exceeding disposable portion.section1238. Grandchildren; collation of donations made by grandparent after death of parent section1239. Grandchildren; right to donations made by grandparent during life of parent section1240. Grandchildren; collation of donations made by grandparent to parent.section1241. Collation by great grandchildren and more remote descendants.section1242. Collation; succession of donor.section1243. Expenditures subject to collation section1244. Expenditures not subject to collation.section1245. Manual gifts.section1246. Profits from contracts with ascendant.section1247. Share of partnership with ascendant.section1248. Advantages other than donation.section1249. Wages for services to ascendant.section1250. Immovables destroyed while in possession of donee.section1251. Methods of making collations.section1252. Collation in kind, definition.section1253. Collation by taking less, definition.section1254. Movables or immovables.section1255. Collation of immovables.section1256. Immovables collated in kind; reimbursement for improvements.section1257. Immovables collated in kind; allowance for expenses of preservation.section1258. Immovables collated in kind; removal by donee of works erected for his pleasure.section1259. Kinds of expenses made on immovable property.section1260. Deterioration and damage to immovable, liability of donee.section1261. Destruction of immovable after election to collate in kind.section1262. Partial destruction of immovable after election to collate in kind.section1263. Destruction of immovable after election to collate by taking less.section1264. Creditors' rights on immovable collated in kind.section1265. Preservation of creditor's mortgage rights after partition.section1266. Immovables in excess of disposable portion; collation in kind.section1267. Immovables in excess of disposable portion; collation by taking less.section1268. Collation in kind; retention of immovable until reimbursement of expenses.section1269. Collation by taking less; valuation of immovable.section1270. Voluntary alienation or negligent loss of immovables subject to collation.section1271. Forced alienation of immovables subject to collation.section1272. Sale by donee and subsequent destruction of immovable subject to collation.section1273. Collation by taking less; coheirs' election of collation by sale or in kind.section1274. Failure of coheirs to make timely election.section1275. Payment of collation by sale of succession effects.section1276. Payment of collation with property of succession.section1277. Payment of collation by donee where succession effects insufficient.section1278. Time and security for payment.section1279. Rights of coheirs against defaulting heir; foreclosure of special mortgage.section1280. Privilege of seizing coheirs on proceeds of mortgage sale.section1281. Alienation of immovable by donee by onerous title; creation of real right in immovable by donee or operation of law section1282. Purchaser's retention of immovable upon payment of collations.section1283. Collation of movables.section1284. Donation of movables as absolute transfer of rights.section1285. Collation of money.section1286. Collation of movables or money by taking less; payment in money.section1287. Collation of movables or money by taking less; payment in succession effects.section1288. Payment of collation by donee where succession effects insufficient.section1289. Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, §1.section1290. Extent and application of rules; venue of action.section1291. Venue of action where property partly in different parishes.section1292. Undivided ownership rights until partition.section1293. Partition of a succession, definition.section1294. Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, §1.section1295. Definitive and provisional partitions, definitions.section1296. Definitive and provisional partitions, distinguished.section1297. Stipulations against partition.section1298. Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, §1.section1299. Perpetual prohibition against partition by donor.section1300. Limited or conditional prohibition against partition by donor.section1301. Testator's right to prohibit partition during minority of heirs.section1302. Testamentary partition section1303. Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, §1.section1304. Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, §1.section1305. Prescription where possession is separate.section1306. Prescription where one heir possesses separately and others possess in common.section1307. Partition between heirs and legatees.section1308. Partition between owners in common.section1309. Partition between possessors in common.section1310. Nature of possession required.section1311. Action maintainable by one or more co-owners.section1312. Partition suits by tutors and curators.section1313. Partition suits by emancipated minors.section1314. Defense of suits by tutors, curators and emancipated minors.section1315. Partition suits by curators of absent heirs.section1316. , 1317 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.section1318. Partition by or against heir or successor of co-owner.section1319. Retrocession repealed.section1320. Ownership as basis for action of partition.section1321. Separate possession of one co-owner, partition before prescription.section1322. Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, §1.section1323. Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, §1.section1324. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.section1325. Inventory within one year of partition suit.section1326. New appraisement.section1327. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.section1328. Summary proceeding for action of partition.section1329. Parties plaintiff and defendant.section1330. Plaintiff's admission of defendant's heirship.section1331. Collation in action of partition; time for deliberating.section1332. Election to collate in kind.section1333. Election to collate by taking less; failure to elect.section1334. Appraisement of property to be collated.section1335. Matters incidental to partition; procedure.section1336. Judicial regulation of mode of partition.section1337. Partition in kind; sale of movables to pay debts.section1338. Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, §1.section1339. Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, §1.section1340. Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, §1.section1341. Terms of sale of succession effects where all heirs are absent or minors.section1342. Terms of sale of succession effects where heirs present demand sale for cash.section1343. Partition sale; coheir's right to purchase hereditary portion.section1344. Partition sale; purchase of minor's hereditary portion by tutor or curator.section1345. Reference to recorder or notary for continuation of proceedings.section1346. Amicable continuation of proceedings by heirs.section1347. Notice to parties.section1348. Continuances of proceedings.section1349. Settlement of accounts due by heirs to succession.section1350. Items included in accounts.section1351. Deduction of donations not subject to collation.section1352. Court order as to mode of collation exhibited to officer section1353. Inclusion of property collated in kind.section1354. Inclusion of value of property collated by taking less.section1355. Formation of active mass.section1356. Composition of active mass.section1357. Deductions from active mass.section1358. Deductions, definition.section1359. Deductions allowed.section1360. Deductions in absence of collation or when collation is in kind.section1361. Deductions, when collation is by taking less.section1362. Coheir's right to take succession effects in payment of collation.section1363. Disagreement among heirs entitled to receive collation in property.section1364. Division into lots according to number of heirs or roots.section1365. Equality in formation of lots.section1366. Equalization by money when one lot more valuable than others.section1367. Formation of lots by experts.section1368. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.section1369. Repealed by Acts 1962, No. 70.section1370. Subdivision among coheirs of same root.section1371. Coheirs' proportionate liability for succession debts.section1372. Observance of formalities.section1373. Provisional partitions; persons authorized to demand new partition section1374. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.section1378. Errors of form, effect.section1379. Delivery of property and title papers after partition.section1380. Subsequent discovery of property, amendment of partition.section1381. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 989, §7, eff. January 1, 1991.section1382. Partition compared to exchange.section1383. Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, §1.section1384. Reciprocal warranty against disturbance or eviction.section1385. Exclusion of warranty.section1386. Eviction through fault of coheir.section1387. Proportionate liability of coheirs.section1388. Amount of indemnity.section1389. Liability of coheirs for portion of insolvent coheir.section1390. Scope of warranty as to corporeal and incorporeal things.section1391. Warranties always implied.section1392. Warranty of solvency of debtor of rent charge, prescription.section1393. Subsequent deterioration or destruction of property.section1394. New debts or charges.section1395. Tacit mortgage abolished.section1396. Prescription of action of warranty.section1397. Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, §1.section1398. Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, §1.section1399. Definitive partitions involving minors, interdicts, or absent persons section1400. Provisional partitions involving minors, interdicts, or absent persons section1401. Omission of succession effects not cause for rescission.section1402. Rescission of transactions effecting partition.section1403. Rescission inadmissible after compromise.section1404. Rescission inadmissible against sale of succession rights.section1405. Sale of succession rights to coheir at risk of vendor, rescission inadmissible.section1406. Sale to coheir of immovable rights only, rescission for lesion.section1407. Facts required to obtain rescission for lesion.section1408. Termination of partition suit by defendant's tender.section1409. Amount of tender.section1410. Rescission for fraud or violence inadmissible after alienation.section1411. Rescission inadmissible against partition regulated by father.section1412. Rescission in favor of minor effective for all parties.section1413. Prescription of action of rescission.section1414. Prescription against minors after judicial partition.section1415. Estate debts; administrative expenses section1416. Liability of universal successors to creditors section1417. [Reserved]section1418. Successors who are creditors, order of preference section1419. Rights of pursuit of creditor section1420. Regulation of payment of debts by testament or by agreement among successors section1421. Estate debts, charged section1422. Debts attributable to identifiable or encumbered property section1423. Decedent's debts charged ratably section1424. Administration expenses, how charged section1425. Liability of successors for contribution or reimbursement section1426. Classification of receipts and expenditures in absence of controlling dispositions section1427. Reporting and deducting as authorized by tax law section1428. Rights and obligations of usufructuary not superseded section1429. Rights and obligations of income interest in trust not superseded section1467. Methods of acquiring or disposing gratuitously section1468. Donations inter vivos; definition section1469. Donation mortis causa; definition section1470. Persons capable of giving or receiving section1471. Capacity to give, time for existence section1472. Capacity to receive, time for existence section1473. Capacity to receive conditional donation, time for existence section1474. Unborn children, capacity to receive section1475. Nullity of donation to person incapable of receiving section1476. Minors; incapacity to make donations, exceptions section1477. Capacity to donate, mental condition of donor section1478. Nullity of donation procured by fraud or duress section1479. Nullity of donation procured through undue influence section1480. Nullity due to fraud, duress, or undue influence; severability of valid provision section1481. Fiduciary appointment, termination section1482. Proof of incapacity to donate section1483. Proof of fraud, duress, or undue influence section1484. Interpretation of revocation or modification section1485. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 147, §3, eff. July 1, 1990.section1486. , 1487 Repealed by Acts 1979, No. 607, §4 section1488. Repealed by Acts 1978, No. 362, §1.section1489. [Blank]section1492. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 147, §3, eff. July 1, 1990.section1493. Forced heirs; representation of forced heirs section1493.1. Children conceived through donation of gametes section1494. Forced heir entitled to legitime; exception section1495. Amount of forced portion and disposable portion section1495.1. Calculation of the legitime section1496. Permissible burdens on legitime section1497. Disposable portion in absence of forced heirs section1498. Nullity of donation inter vivos of entire patrimony section1499. Usufruct to surviving spouse section1500. Forced portion in cases of judicial divestment, disinherison, or renunciation of succession rights section1501. Repealed by Acts 1997, No. 706, §1.section1502. Inability to satisfy legitime by usufruct or income interest in trust only section1503. Reduction of excessive donations section1504. Reduction of donations, exclusive right of forced heirs section1505. Calculation of disposable portion on mass of succession section1506. [Reserved]section1507. Reduction of legacies before donations inter vivos , order of reduction section1508. Reduction of donations inter vivos section1509. Insolvency of a donee section1510. Remunerative donations, extent of reduction section1511. Onerous donation, extent of reduction section1512. Retention of fruits and products of donation by donee until demand for reduction section1513. Reduction in kind when property is owned by the donee or successors by gratuitous title; effects of alienation by donee section1514. Usufruct of surviving spouse affecting legitime; security section1515. [Blank]section1516. [Blank]section1517. [Blank]section1518. [Blank]section1519. Impossible, illegal or immoral conditions.section1519.1. Penalty clauses section1520. Prohibited substitutions, definitions section1521. Vulgar substitutions section1522. Separate donations of usufruct and naked ownership section1526. Onerous donation section1527. Remunerative donations section1528. Charges or conditions imposed by donor section1529. Donation of future property; nullity section1530. Donation conditional on will of donor; nullity section1531. Donation conditional on payment of future or unexpressed debts and charges; nullity section1532. Stipulation for right of return to donor section1533. Right of return; effect section1541. Form required for donations section1542. Identification of donor, donee, and the thing donated required section1543. Manual gift section1544. Donation effective from time of acceptance section1545. Acceptance in person or by mandatary section1546. Acceptance during lifetime of donee section1547. Acceptance by creditor prohibited section1548. Unemancipated minor; persons authorized to accept section1549. Thing acquired subject to existing charges section1550. Form for donation of certain incorporeal movables section1551. Effects of acceptance section1556. Causes for revocation or dissolution section1557. Revocation for ingratitude section1558. Revocation for ingratitude; prescription, parties section1559. Revocation for ingratitude, effect on alienations, leases, or encumbrances section1560. Revocation for ingratitude, restoration section1561. Reserved section1562. Dissolution for nonfulfillment of suspensive condition or for occurrence of resolutory condition section1563. Nonfulfillment of conditions or nonperformance of charges that donee can perform or prevent section1564. Dissolution for non-execution of other condition; prescription section1565. Dissolution for non-execution of condition section1566. Revocation or dissolution, donee's liability for fruits section1567. Donee unable to return thing in same condition section1570. Testaments; form section1571. Testaments with others or by others prohibited section1572. Testamentary dispositions committed to the choice of a third person section1573. Formalities section1574. Forms of testaments section1575. Olographic testament; requirements of form section1576. Notarial testament; requirements of form section1577. Repealed by Acts 2025, No. 30, §3.section1578. Repealed by Acts 2025, No. 30, §3.section1579. Repealed by Acts 2025, No. 30, §3.section1580. Repealed by Acts 2025, No. 30, §3.section1580.1. Repealed by Acts 2025, No. 30, §3.section1581. Persons incompetent to be witnesses section1582. Effect of witness or notary as legatee section1582.1. Persons prohibited from witnessing; effect section1583. Certain designations not legacies section1584. Kinds of testamentary dispositions section1585. Universal legacy section1586. General legacy section1587. Particular legacy section1588. Joint or separate legacy section1589. Lapse of legacies section1590. Testamentary accretion section1591. Accretion of particular and general legacies section1592. Accretion among joint legatees section1593. Exception to rule of testamentary accretion section1594. [Reserved]section1595. Accretion to universal legatee section1596. Accretion to intestate successors section1597. Loss, extinction, or destruction of property given section1598. Right of legatees to fruits and products section1599. Payment of legacies, preference of payment section1600. Particular legacies; preference of payment section1601. Preference of payment among particular legacies section1602. Discharge of an unsatisfied particular legacy section1603. [Reserved]section1604. Discharge of legacies, limitation of liability section1605. Probate of testament section1606. Testator's right of revocation section1607. Revocation of entire testament by testator section1608. Revocation of a legacy or other testamentary provision section1609. Revocation of juridical act prior to testator's death section1610. Other modifications section1610.1. Grounds for revocation of testamentary dispositions section1611. Intent of testator controls section1612. Preference for interpretation that gives effect section1613. Mistake in identification of object bequeathed section1614. Interpretation as to after-acquired property section1615. Contradictory provisions section1616. Legacy to creditor section1617. Disinherison of forced heirs section1618. Formalities for disinherison section1619. Disinherison, express and for just cause section1620. Limitation of causes for disinherison section1621. Children; causes for disinherison by parents section1622. Grandparents; causes for disinherison of grandchildren section1623. Timing of action; no defense section1624. Mention of cause for disinherison; burden of proof; reconciliation section1625. Reconciliation section1626. Defenses to disinherison section1724. Right of parents and ascendants to partition property among descendants section1725. Method of making partition section1726. Partition by act inter vivos, formalities.section1727. Testamentary partitions, formalities.section1728. Property not included in partition.section1729. Necessity for partition to include all descendants.section1730. Limitation in relation to disposable portion.section1731. Action to rescind partition, payment of costs.section1732. Tender by defendant in action of rescission.section1733. Donation of extra portion not affected by rescission.section1734. Donations in contemplation of marriage by third persons; in general section1735. Form section1736. Condition section1737. Beneficiaries section1738. Beneficiaries section1739. Limited irrevocability section1740. Division following substitution of common descendants section1741. Caducity; causes and effects section1742. Acceptance or renunciation of succession section1743. Universal succession; liability for estate debts section1744. Donations between future or present spouses; in general section1745. Applicability of rules on donations in contemplation of marriage by third person section1746. Objects and beneficiaries section1747. Form section1748. Right of return not presumed section1749. Donation of property to be left at death; caducity section1750. Donations of property to be left at death made during marriage; revocability section1751. Disguised donations and donations to persons interposed section1752. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 147, §3, eff. July 1, 1990.section1753. Repealed by Acts 1918, No. 238, §1.section1754. Repealed by Acts 2004, No. 619, §1, eff. Sept. 1, 2005.section1755. Repealed by Acts 2004, No. 619, §1, eff. Sept. 1, 2005.section1756. Obligations; definition section1757. Sources of obligations section1758. General effects section1759. Good faith section1760. Moral duties that may give rise to a natural obligation section1761. Effects of a natural obligation section1762. Examples of circumstances giving rise to a natural obligation section1763. Definition section1764. Effects of real obligation section1765. Heritable obligation section1766. Strictly personal obligation section1767. Suspensive and resolutory condition section1768. Expressed and implied conditions section1769. Unlawful or impossible condition section1770. Condition that depends on the whim or the will of the obligor section1771. Obligee's right pending condition section1772. Fault of a party section1773. Time for fulfillment of condition that an event shall occur section1774. Time for fulfillment of condition that an event shall not occur section1775. Effects retroactive section1776. Contract for continuous or periodic performance section1777. Express or implied term section1778. Term for performance section1779. Term presumed to benefit the obligor section1780. Renunciation of a term section1781. Performance before end of term section1782. If the obligor is insolvent section1783. Impairment or failure of security section1784. Term for performance not fixed section1785. Performance on term section1786. Several, joint, and solidary obligations section1787. Several obligations; effects section1788. Joint obligations for obligors or obligees section1789. Divisible and indivisible joint obligation section1790. Solidary obligations for obligees section1791. Extinction of obligation by performance section1792. Remission by one obligee section1793. Interruption of prescription section1794. Solidary obligation for obligors section1795. Solidary obligor may not request division; action against one obligor after action against another section1796. Solidarity not presumed section1797. Solidary obligation arising from different sources section1798. Obligation subject to condition or term section1799. Interruption of prescription section1800. Solidary liability for damages section1801. Defenses that solidary obligor may raise section1802. Renunciation of solidarity section1803. Remission of debt to or transaction or compromise with one obligor section1804. Liability of solidary obligors between themselves section1805. Enforcement of contribution section1806. Insolvency of a solidary obligor section1807. Conjunctive obligation section1808. Alternative obligation section1809. Choice belongs to the obligor section1810. Delay in exercising choice section1811. Obligor may not choose part of one item section1812. Impossibility or unlawfulness of one item of performance section1813. Impossibility or unlawfulness of all items of performance section1814. Obligor's liability for damages section1815. Divisible and indivisible obligation section1816. Effect of divisible obligation between single obligor and obligee section1817. Effects of divisible obligation among successors section1818. Effects of indivisible obligations between more than one obligor or obligee section1819. Effect of indivisible obligation among successors section1820. Solidarity is not indivisibility section1821. Assumption by agreement between obligor and third person section1822. Third person bound for amount assumed section1823. Assumption by agreement between obligee and third person section1824. Defenses section1825. Definition section1826. Effects section1827. Conventional subrogation by the obligee section1828. Conventional subrogation by the obligor section1829. Subrogation by operation of law section1830. Effects of legal subrogation section1831. Party must prove obligation section1832. Written form required by law section1833. Authentic act section1834. Act that fails to be authentic section1835. Authentic act constitutes full proof between parties and heirs section1836. Act under private signature duly acknowledged section1837. Act under private signature section1838. Party must acknowledge or deny signature section1839. Transfer of immovable property section1840. Copy of authentic act section1841. Copy of recorded writing section1842. Confirmation section1843. Ratification section1844. Effects of confirmation and ratification section1845. Confirmation of donation section1846. Contract not in excess of five hundred dollars section1847. Debt of a third person and debt extinguished by prescription section1848. Testimonial or other evidence not admitted to disprove a writing section1849. Proof of simulation section1850. Repealed by Acts 1997, No. 577, §3.section1851. Repealed by Acts 1997, No. 577, §3.section1852. Repealed by Acts 1997, No. 577, §3.section1853. Judicial confession section1854. Extinction by performance section1855. Performance by a third person section1856. Valid transfer of object of performance section1857. Performance rendered to the obligee section1858. Lack of capacity of obligee section1859. Performance in violation of seizure section1860. Quality of thing to be given section1861. Partial performance section1862. Place of performance section1863. Expenses section1864. Imputation by obligor section1865. Imputation to debt not yet due section1866. Payment imputed to interest section1867. Imputation by obligee section1868. Imputation not made by the parties section1869. Offer to perform and deposit by obligor section1870. Notice as tender section1871. Deposit of things by obligor section1872. Sale of a thing and deposit of proceeds section1873. Obligor not liable when failure caused by fortuitous event section1874. Fortuitous event that would have destroyed object in hands of obligee section1875. Fortuitous event section1876. Contract dissolved when performance becomes impossible section1877. Fortuitous event that has made performance impossible in part section1878. Fortuitous event after obligor performed in part section1879. Extinguishment of existing obligation section1880. Novation not presumed section1881. Objective novation section1882. Subjective novation section1883. No effect when obligation is invalid section1884. Security for extinguished obligation section1885. Novation of solidary obligation section1886. Delegation of performance section1887. Discharge of any prior obligor does not affect security section1888. Express or tacit remission section1889. Presumption of remission section1890. Remission effective when communication is received by the obligor section1891. Release of real security section1892. Remission granted to sureties section1893. Compensation extinguishes obligations section1894. Obligation not subject to compensation section1895. Obligations not to be performed at the same place section1896. Rules of imputation of payment section1897. Compensation extinguishes obligation of surety section1898. Compensation between obligee and solidary obligor section1899. Rights acquired by third persons section1900. Assignment by obligee section1901. Compensation by agreement section1902. Compensation by judicial declaration section1903. Union of qualities of obligee and obligor section1904. Obligation of the surety section1905. Solidary obligations section1906. Definition of contract section1907. Unilateral contracts section1908. Bilateral or synallagmatic contracts section1909. Onerous contracts section1910. Gratuitous contracts section1911. Commutative contracts section1912. Aleatory contracts section1913. Principal and accessory contracts section1914. Nominate and innominate contracts section1915. Rules applicable to all contracts section1916. Rules applicable to nominate contracts section1917. Rules applicable to all kinds of obligations section1918. General statement of capacity section1919. Right to plead rescission section1920. Right to require confirmation or rescission of the contract section1921. Rescission of contract for incapacity section1922. Fully emancipated minor section1923. Incapacity of unemancipated minor; exceptions section1924. Mere representation of majority; reliance section1925. Noninterdicted person deprived of reason; protection of innocent contracting party by onerous title section1926. Attack on noninterdicted decedent's contracts section1927. Consent section1928. Irrevocable offer section1929. Expiration of irrevocable offer for lack of acceptance section1930. Revocable offer section1931. Expiration of revocable offer section1932. Expiration of offer by death or incapacity of either party section1933. Option contracts section1934. Time when acceptance of an irrevocable offer is effective section1935. Time when acceptance of a revocable offer is effective section1936. Reasonableness of manner and medium of acceptance section1937. Time when revocation is effective section1938. Reception of revocation, rejection, or acceptance section1939. Acceptance by performance section1940. Acceptance only by completed performance section1941. Notice of commencement of performance section1942. Acceptance by silence section1943. Acceptance not in accordance with offer section1944. Offer of reward made to the public section1945. Revocation of an offer of reward made to the public section1946. Performance by several persons section1947. Form contemplated by parties section1948. Vitiated consent section1949. Error vitiates consent section1950. Error that concerns cause section1951. Other party willing to perform section1952. Rescission; liability for damages section1953. Fraud may result from misrepresentation or from silence section1954. Confidence between the parties section1955. Error induced by fraud section1956. Fraud committed by a third person section1957. Proof section1958. Damages section1959. Nature section1960. Duress directed against third persons section1961. Duress by third person section1962. Threat of exercising a right section1963. Contract with party in good faith section1964. Damages section1965. Lesion section1966. No obligation without cause section1967. Cause defined; detrimental reliance section1968. Unlawful cause section1969. Cause not expressed section1970. Untrue expression of cause section1971. Freedom of parties section1972. Possible or impossible object section1973. Object determined as to kind section1974. Determination by third person section1975. Output or requirements section1976. Future things section1977. Obligation or performance by a third person section1978. Stipulation for the benefit of a third person section1979. Revocation section1980. Revocation or refusal section1981. Rights of beneficiary and stipulator section1982. Defenses of the promisor section1983. Law for the parties; performance in good faith section1984. Rights and obligations will pass to successors section1985. Effects for third persons section1986. Right of the obligee section1987. Right to restrain obligor section1988. Judgment may stand for act section1989. Damages for delay section1990. Obligor put in default by arrival of term section1991. Manners of putting in default section1992. Risk devolves upon the obligor section1993. Reciprocal obligations section1994. Obligor liable for failure to perform section1995. Measure of damages section1996. Obligor in good faith section1997. Obligor in bad faith section1998. Damages for nonpecuniary loss section1999. Assessment of damages left to the court section2000. Damages for delay measured by interest; no need of proof; attorney fees section2001. Interest on interest section2002. Reasonable efforts to mitigate damages section2003. Obligee in bad faith section2004. Clause that excludes or limits liability section2005. Secondary obligation section2006. Nullity of the principal obligation section2007. Stipulated damages or performance section2008. Failure to perform justified section2009. Obligee not bound to prove damage section2010. Obligor put in default section2011. Benefit from partial performance section2012. Stipulated damages may not be modified section2013. Obligee's right to dissolution section2014. Importance of failure to perform section2015. Dissolution after notice to perform section2016. Dissolution without notice to perform section2017. Express dissolution clause section2018. Effects of dissolution section2019. Contracts for continuous or periodic performance section2020. Contracts made by more than two parties section2021. Rights of third person in good faith section2022. Refusal to perform section2023. Security for performance section2024. Contract terminated by a party's initiative section2025. Definition; simulation and counterletter section2026. Absolute simulation section2027. Relative simulation section2028. Effects as to third persons section2029. Nullity of contracts section2030. Absolute nullity of contracts section2031. Relative nullity of contracts section2032. Prescription of action section2033. Effects section2034. Nullity of a provision section2035. Rights of third person in good faith section2036. Act of the obligor that causes or increases his insolvency section2037. Insolvency section2038. Onerous contract made by the obligor section2039. Gratuitous contract made by the obligor section2040. Contract made in course of business section2041. Action must be brought within one year section2042. Obligee must join obligor and third persons section2043. Assets transferred must be returned section2044. Insolvency by failure to exercise right section2045. Determination of the intent of the parties section2046. No further interpretation when intent is clear section2047. Meaning of words section2048. Words susceptible of different meanings section2049. Provision susceptible of different meanings section2050. Provisions interpreted in light of each other section2051. Contract worded in general terms section2052. Situation to which the contract applies section2053. Nature of contract, equity, usages, conduct of the parties, and other contracts between same parties section2054. No provision of the parties for a particular situation section2055. Equity and usage section2056. Standard-form contracts section2057. Contract interpreted in favor of obligor section2058. Repealed by Acts 1984, No. 331, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1985.section2292. Management of affairs; definition section2293. Application of rules governing mandate section2294. Duties of the manager; notice to the owner section2295. Duties of the manager; liability for loss section2296. Capacity section2297. Obligations of the owner section2298. Enrichment without cause; compensation section2299. Obligation to restore section2300. Obligation that does not exist section2301. Obligation under suspensive condition section2302. Payment of the debt of another person section2303. Liability of the person receiving payment section2304. Restoration of a thing or its value section2305. Liability when the thing is alienated section2306. Repealed by Acts 1995, No. 1041, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.section2307. Repealed by Acts 1995, No. 1041, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.section2308. Repealed by Acts 1995, No. 1041, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.section2309. Repealed by Acts 1995, No. 1041, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.section2310. Repealed by Acts 1995, No. 1041, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.section2311. Repealed by Acts 1995, No. 1041, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.section2312. Repealed by Acts 1995, No. 1041, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.section2313. Repealed by Acts 1995, No. 1041, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.section2314. Repealed by Acts 1979, No. 180, §3.section2315. Liability for acts causing damages section2315.1. Survival action section2315.2. Wrongful death action section2315.3. Additional damages; child pornography; child sexual abuse materials section2315.4. Additional damages; intoxicated defendant section2315.5. Wrongful death and survival action; exception section2315.6. Liability for damages caused by injury to another section2315.7. Liability for damages caused by criminal sexual activity occurring during childhood section2315.8. Liability for damages caused by domestic abuse section2315.9. Liability for damages caused by acts of terror section2315.10. Liability for death caused by hazing; additional damages section2315.11. Liability for damages caused by sexual assault section2315.12. Liability for damages; prohibition of award; unauthorized alien section2315.13. Liability for damages caused by child sexual abuse in a school setting section2315.14. Liability for damages caused by offenses related to obstruction of freedom of worship in a church or other place of worship section2316. Negligence, imprudence or want of skill.section2317. Acts of others and of things in custody.section2317.1. Damage caused by ruin, vice, or defect in things section2318. Acts of a minor section2319. Acts of interdicts section2320. Acts of servants, students or apprentices section2321. Damage caused by animals; livestock section2322. Damage caused by ruin of building section2322.1. Users of blood or tissue; a medical service section2323. Comparative fault section2324. Liability as solidary or joint and divisible obligation section2324.1. Damages; discretion of judge or jury section2324.2. Reduction of recovery section2325. Matrimonial regime.section2326. Kinds of matrimonial regimes.section2327. Legal regime.section2328. Contractual regime; matrimonial agreement.section2329. Exclusion or modification of matrimonial regime.section2330. Limits of contractual freedom.section2331. Form of matrimonial agreement.section2332. Effect toward third persons.section2333. Minors section2334. Persons; scope of application of the legal regime.section2335. Classification of property section2336. Ownership of community property section2337. Disposition of undivided interest.section2338. Community property.section2339. Fruits and revenues of separate property section2340. Presumption of community.section2341. Separate property.section2341.1. Acquisition of undivided interests; separate and community property section2342. Declaration of acquisition of separate property section2343. Donation by spouse of interest in community.section2343.1. Transfer of separate property to the community.section2344. Offenses and quasi-offenses; damages as community or separate property.section2345. Satisfaction of obligation during community.section2346. Management of community property.section2347. Alienation of community property; concurrence of other spouse.section2348. Renunciation of right to concur.section2349. Donation of community property; concurrence of other spouse.section2350. Alienation of movable assets of business section2351. Alienation of registered movables.section2352. Management and disposition of partnership and limited liability company interest section2353. Unauthorized alienation of community property.section2354. Liability for fraud or bad faith.section2355. Judicial authorization to act without the consent of the other spouse section2355.1. Judicial authorization to manage the community section2356. Causes of termination section2357. Satisfaction of obligation after termination of regime section2358. Claims for reimbursement between spouses section2358.1. Source of reimbursement section2359. Obligations; community or separate.section2360. Community obligation.section2361. Obligations incurred during marriage; presumption.section2362. Alimentary obligation.section2362.1. Obligation incurred in an action for divorce section2363. Separate obligation section2364. Satisfaction of separate obligation with community property or former community property section2364.1. Repealed by Acts 2009, No. 204, §3.section2365. Satisfaction of community obligation with separate property section2366. Use of community property or former community property for the benefit of separate property section2367. Use of separate property for the benefit of community property section2367.1. Use of separate property for the benefit of separate property section2367.2. Component parts of separate property section2367.3. Satisfaction of separate obligation with separate property section2368. Increase of the value of separate property.section2369. Accounting between spouses; prescription.section2369.1. Application of co-ownership provisions section2369.2. Ownership interest section2369.3. Duty to preserve; standard of care section2369.4. Alienation, encumbrance, or lease prohibited section2369.5. Alienation of registered movables section2369.6. Alienation, encumbrance, or lease of movable assets of former community enterprise section2369.7. Court authorization to act alone section2369.8. Right to partition; no exclusion by agreement; judicial partition section2370. Separation of property regime.section2371. Management of property.section2372. Necessaries.section2373. Expenses of the marriage.section2374. Judgment of separation of property section2375. Effect of judgment section2376. Rights of creditors.section2377. Repealed by Acts 1978, No. 627, §6; Acts 1979, No. 709, §1 section2432. Right to marital portion.section2433. Incident of marriage; charge on the succession.section2434. Quantum section2435. Deduction of legacy.section2436. Nonheritable right; prescription.section2437. Periodic allowance.section2438. Rules of other titles section2439. Definition section2440. Sale of immovable, method of making section2441. [Reserved]section2442. Recordation of sale of immovable to affect third persons section2443. Purchase of a thing already owned section2444. Repealed by Acts 2012, No. 277, §2.section2445. [Reserved]section2446. [Reserved]section2447. Sale of litigious rights, prohibitions section2448. Things that may be sold section2449. [Reserved]section2450. Sale of future things section2451. Sale of a hope section2452. Sale of the thing of another section2453. Sale of thing pending litigation of ownership section2454. [Reserved]section2455. [Reserved]section2456. Transfer of ownership section2457. Transfer of ownership; things not individualized section2458. Sale by weight, tale or measure; lump sales section2459. [Reserved]section2460. Sale on view or trial section2461. Inclusion of accessories section2462. [Reserved]section2463. Expenses section2464. Price, essential elements section2465. Price left to determination by third person section2466. No price fixed by the parties section2467. Transfer of risk section2468. [Reserved]section2469. [Reserved]section2470. [Reserved]section2471. [Reserved]section2472. [Reserved]section2473. [Reserved]section2474. Construction of ambiguities respecting obligations of seller section2475. Seller's obligations of delivery and warranty.section2476. [Reserved]section2477. Methods of making delivery section2478. [Reserved]section2479. [Reserved]section2480. Retention of possession by seller, presumption of simulation section2481. Incorporeals, method of making delivery section2482. Things not in possession of seller section2483. Costs of delivery and of removal section2484. Place of delivery section2485. Buyer's rights upon default, damages section2486. [Reserved]section2487. Delivery excused until payment of price and for insolvency section2488. [Reserved]section2489. Condition of thing at time of delivery section2490. [Reserved]section2491. Immovables, extent of delivery section2492. Sale of immovables at a price per measure section2493. [Reserved]section2494. Sale of immovable for lump price section2495. Sale of a certain and limited body or of a distinct object for a lump price section2496. [Reserved]section2497. Restitution of price and expenses in case of rescission section2498. Prescription of actions for supplement or diminution of price or for dissolution section2499. [Reserved]section2500. Eviction, definition, scope of warranty section2501. [Reserved]section2502. Transfer of rights to a thing section2503. Modification or exclusion of warranty, seller's liability for personal acts, restitution of price in case of eviction section2504. [Reserved]section2505. [Reserved]section2506. Rights of buyer against seller in case of eviction section2507. Restitution of full price despite deterioration, deduction of damage when benefit to buyer section2508. [Reserved]section2509. Reimbursement to buyer for useful improvements, liability of seller in bad faith section2510. [Reserved]section2511. Partial eviction, rights of buyer section2512. Warranty against eviction from proceeds section2513. Scope of warranty in sale of succession rights section2514. [Reserved]section2515. [Reserved]section2516. [Reserved]section2517. Call in warranty, failure of buyer to call seller in warranty, suit to quiet possession section2518. [Reserved]section2519. [Reserved]section2520. Warranty against redhibitory defects section2521. Defects that are made known to the buyer or that are apparent section2522. Notice of existence of defect section2523. [Reserved]section2524. Thing fit for ordinary use section2525. [Reserved]section2526. [Reserved]section2527. [Reserved]section2528. [Reserved]section2529. Thing not of the kind specified in the contract section2530. Defect must exist before delivery section2531. Liability of seller who knew not of the defect section2532. Return of the thing; destruction of the thing section2533. [Reserved]section2534. Prescription section2535. [Reserved]section2536. [Reserved]section2537. Judicial sales section2538. Multiple sellers, multiple buyers, successors section2539. [Reserved]section2540. Redhibitory vice of one of several matched things sold together section2541. Reduction of the price section2542. [Reserved]section2543. [Reserved]section2544. [Reserved]section2545. Liability of seller who knows of the defect; presumption of knowledge section2546. [Reserved]section2547. [Reserved]section2548. Exclusion or limitation of warranty; subrogation section2549. Obligations of the buyer section2550. Time and place of payment of price section2551. [Reserved]section2552. [Reserved]section2553. Interest on price section2554. [Reserved]section2555. Liability of the buyer who fails to take delivery section2556. [Reserved]section2557. Eviction and threat of eviction as grounds for suspension of payment section2558. [Reserved]section2559. [Reserved]section2560. Payment of the price before disturbance of possession section2561. Dissolution of sale for nonpayment of price section2562. Dissolution of sale of immovables for nonpayment of price; extension of time for payment section2563. Payment of price after expiration of term but prior to default section2564. Dissolution of sale of movables section2565. [Reserved]section2566. [Reserved]section2567. Right of redemption, definition section2568. Limitation on duration section2569. Redemption, presumption of security section2570. Effect of failure to exercise right within time stipulated section2571. Application of time limit against all persons including minors section2572. Redemption against second purchaser section2573. [Reserved]section2574. Buyer's benefit of discussion against creditors of the seller section2575. Ownership of fruits and products pending redemption section2576. [Reserved]section2577. Ownership of improvements and augmentations pending redemption section2578. Liability for deterioration at the time of redemption section2579. [Reserved]section2580. [Reserved]section2581. [Reserved]section2582. [Reserved]section2583. [Reserved]section2584. Multiple successors, applicability of rules governing lesion section2585. [Reserved]section2586. [Reserved]section2587. Reimbursement to buyer on redemption section2588. Encumbrances created by buyer section2589. Rescission for lesion beyond moiety section2590. Time of valuation for determination of lesion section2591. Option of buyer to supplement price section2592. Lesion, return of fruits by buyer and payment of interest by seller section2593. [Reserved]section2594. Lesion, action against vendee who has resold the immovable section2595. Peremption of action for lesion section2596. Lesion, action against vendee who has granted a right on the immovable section2597. Condition in which property is returned to seller; reimbursement of buyer for improvements section2598. [Reserved]section2599. Buyer's right of retention pending reimbursement section2600. Divisibility of action in lesion among joint sellers and successors, joinder section2601. Additional terms in acceptance of offer to sell a movable section2602. Contract by conduct of the parties section2603. Obligation to deliver conforming things section2604. Buyer's right of inspection section2605. Rejection of nonconforming things by the buyer section2606. Buyer's acceptance of nonconforming things section2607. Buyer may accept part of things delivered section2608. Merchant buyer's duty upon rejection of things section2609. Purchase of substitute things by the buyer section2610. Cure of nonconformity section2611. Resale by the seller section2612. Deposit of the things by seller section2613. Things in transit, ownership section2614. Stoppage in transit section2615. Judicial dissolution section2616. Things in transit, risk of loss section2617. Payment against documents section2618. [Reserved]section2619. [Reserved]section2620. Option to buy or sell section2621. Acceptance, when effective; option turns into contract to sell; rejection section2622. Warranty of assignor section2623. Bilateral promise of sale; contract to sell section2624. Deposit, earnest money section2625. Right of first refusal section2626. Terms of offered sale section2627. Right of first refusal, time for acceptance section2628. Time limitation for option and right of first refusal section2629. Effect against third persons section2630. Indivisibility of right section2631. [Reserved]section2632. [Reserved]section2633. [Reserved]section2634. [Reserved]section2635. [Reserved]section2636. [Reserved]section2637. [Reserved]section2638. [Reserved]section2639. [Reserved]section2640. [Reserved]section2641. [Reserved]section2642. Assignability of rights section2643. Assignment effective from the time of knowledge or notice section2644. Performance by debtor before knowledge of assignment section2645. Accessories included in assignment of right section2646. Warranty of existence of debt, solvency of debtor section2647. [Reserved]section2648. Scope of warranty of debtor's solvency section2649. Assignor's knowledge of the debtor's insolvency; effects section2650. Warranty in assignment of succession rights section2651. [Reserved]section2652. Sale of litigious rights section2653. Assignability prohibited by contract; exceptions section2654. Documents evidencing the right section2655. Giving in payment, definition section2656. Delivery essential to a giving in payment section2657. Giving in partial payment section2658. [Reserved]section2659. Application of general rules of sale section2660. Exchange, definition section2661. Rights and obligations of the parties section2662. Rights of party evicted section2663. Rescission for lesion in contracts of exchange section2664. Application of the rules of sale section2665. [Reserved.]section2666. [Reserved.]section2667. [Reserved.]section2668. Contract of lease defined section2669. Relation with other titles section2670. Contract to lease section2671. Types of leases section2672. Mineral lease section2673. The thing section2674. Ownership of the thing section2675. The rent section2676. Agreement as to the rent section2677. Crop rent section2678. Term section2679. Limits of contractual freedom in fixing the term section2680. Duration supplied by law; legal term section2681. Form section2681.1. Lease of an immovable section2681.2. Lease of a movable section2682. The lessor's principal obligations section2683. The lessee's principal obligations section2684. Obligations to deliver the thing at the agreed time and in good condition section2685. Discrepancy between agreed and delivered quantity section2686. Misuse of the thing section2687. Damage caused by fault section2688. Obligation to inform lessor section2689. Payment of taxes and other charges section2690. Alterations by the lessor prohibited section2691. Lessor's obligation for repairs section2692. Lessee's obligation to make repairs section2693. Lessor's right to make repairs section2694. Lessee's right to make repairs section2695. Attachments, additions, or other improvements to leased thing section2696. Warranty against vices or defects section2697. Warranty for unknown vices or defects section2698. Persons protected by warranty section2699. Waiver of warranty for vices or defects section2700. Warranty of peaceful possession section2701. Call in warranty section2702. Disturbance by third persons without claim of right section2703. When and where rent is due section2704. Nonpayment of rent section2705. Abatement of rent for unforeseen loss of crops section2706. Loss of crop rent section2707. Lessor's privilege section2708. Lessor's privilege over sublessee's movables section2709. Lessor's right to seize movables of third persons section2710. Enforcement of the lessor's privilege section2711. Transfer of thing by lessor does not terminate lease section2712. Transfer of thing does not transfer rights and obligations of lease section2713. Right to sublease, assign, or encumber section2713.1. Rights of sublessee or assignee section2714. Expropriation; loss or destruction section2715. Partial destruction, loss, expropriation, or other substantial impairment of use section2716. Termination of lease granted by a usufructuary section2717. Death of lessor or lessee section2718. Leases with reservation of right to terminate section2719. Dissolution for other causes section2720. Termination of lease with a fixed term section2721. Reconduction section2722. Term of reconducted agricultural lease section2723. Term of reconducted nonagricultural lease section2724. Continuity of the reconducted lease section2725. Extension section2726. Amendment section2727. Termination of lease with an indeterminate term section2728. Notice of termination; timing section2729. Notice of termination; form section2745. Kinds of lease of services or labor.section2746. Limited duration of contract.section2747. Contract of servant terminable at will of parties.section2748. Contract of farm or factory laborer, restrictions on termination.section2749. Liability for dismissal of laborer without cause.section2750. Liability of laborer leaving employment without cause.section2751. Obligations of carriers and watermen section2752. Liability for things delivered for shipment.section2753. Birth of child during sea voyage.section2754. Liability for loss or damage.section2755. Master's and crew's privilege on vessel for payment of wages.section2756. Building by plot and work by job, definitions.section2757. Agreement to furnish work or materials or both.section2758. Destruction of work before delivery, liability of contractor furnishing materials.section2759. Destruction of work before delivery, liability of contractor furnishing work only.section2760. Destruction of work before delivery, contractor's right to payment of salary.section2761. Delivery of work in separate parts.section2762. Liability of contractor for damages due to badness of workmanship.section2763. Changes or extensions of original plans, effect.section2764. Substantial and necessary alterations.section2765. Cancellation of contract by owner.section2766. Termination of contract by death of workman.section2767. Payment to heirs of contractor for work or materials completed.section2768. Contractor's liability for acts of employees.section2769. Contractor's liability for non-compliance with contract.section2770. Workmen employed by contractor, rights against owner.section2771. Masons, carpenters and other artificers as contractors.section2772. Repealed by Acts 2019, No. 325, §3, eff. Jan. 1, 2020.section2773. Repealed by Acts 2019, No. 325, §3, eff. Jan. 1, 2020.section2774. Repealed by Acts 2019, No. 325, §3, eff. Jan. 1, 2020.section2775. Repealed by Acts 2019, No. 325, §3, eff. Jan. 1, 2020.section2776. Repealed by Acts 2019, No. 325, §3.section2777. Privilege of workmen on ships and boats.section2778. Annuity contract; definition section2779. Applicability of the rules governing obligations section2780. Recipient of payments section2781. Annuity for life or time period section2782. Termination of annuity; absence of a designated term section2783. Assignable and heritable rights and obligations section2784. Annuity in favor of successive recipients section2785. Annuity contract in favor of several recipients of payments section2786. Existence of recipient section2787. Annuity charge section2788. Annuity charge; recordation section2789. Applicable law section2790. Annuity charge for life or time period section2791. Enforcement of the annuity charge section2801. Partnership; definition.section2802. Applicability of rules of conventional obligations.section2803. Participation of partners.section2804. Participation in one category only.section2805. Name of the partnership.section2806. Ownership of immovable property; retroactivity of partnership's existence; acquisition of immovable property prior to partnership's existence section2807. Decisions affecting the partnership.section2808. Obligation of a partner to contribute.section2809. Fiduciary duty; activities prejudicial to the partnership.section2810. Other rights not prejudiced.section2811. Partner as creditor of the partnership.section2812. The sharing of a partner's interest with a third person.section2813. The right of a partner to obtain information.section2814. Partner as mandatary of the partnership section2815. Effect of loss stipulation on third persons.section2816. Contract by partner in his own name; effect on the partnership.section2817. Partnership debts; liability.section2818. Causes of cessation of membership section2819. Seizure of the interest of a partner.section2820. Expulsion of a partner for just cause.section2821. Partnership constituted for term; withdrawal.section2822. Partnership without term; withdrawal.section2823. Rights of a partner after withdrawal.section2824. Payment of interest of partner.section2825. Judicial determination of amount.section2826. Termination of a partnership; causes section2827. Continuation of a partnership.section2828. Continuation for liquidation; sole proprietorship.section2829. Change in number or identity of partners.section2830. Effects of termination; authority of partners.section2831. Termination of the partnership; rights of third parties.section2832. Creditors of the partnership; preference.section2833. Division of the partnership assets.section2834. Liquidation of the partnership.section2835. Final liquidation.section2836. Provisions applicable to partnerships in commendam.section2837. Partnership in commendam; definition.section2838. Name; designation as partnership in commendam.section2839. Name of partner in commendam; use section2840. Partner in commendam; liability; agreed contribution.section2841. Contract form; registry section2842. Restrictions on the right of a partner in commendam to receive contributions.section2843. Restrictions on the partner in commendam with regard to management or administration of the partnership section2844. Liability of the partner in commendam to third persons section2845. Repealed by Acts 1995, No. 847, §5, eff. June 27, 1995.section2846. Repealed by Acts 1995, No. 847, §5, eff. June 27, 1995.section2847. Repealed by Acts 1995, No. 847, §5, eff. June 27, 1995.section2848. Repealed by Acts 1995, No. 847, §5, eff. June 27, 1995.section2891. Loan for use; definition section2892. Applicability of the rules governing obligations section2893. Things that may be lent section2894. Preservation and limited use section2895. Ordinary wear and tear; damage caused by the failure to keep, preserve, or use as a prudent administrator section2896. Use for longer time or in other manner section2897. Loss caused by fortuitous event section2898. Valuation of the thing section2899. Reimbursement for expenses section2900. Liability of joint borrowers section2901. Retaking before or after conclusion of use or expiration of time section2902. Lender's liability for damage caused by defects in the thing section2903. Liberative prescription section2904. Loan for consumption; definition section2905. Ownership and risk of loss of the thing lent section2906. Loan of nonfungible things section2907. Loan of money or commodities section2908. Lender's liability for damage caused by defects in the thing section2909. Inability to demand performance until expiration of term section2910. Substance and place of performance section2911. Payment of value when restitution is impossible section2912. Payment of interest in case of default section2913. Payment of interest presumed in release of principal section2926. Deposit; definition section2927. Applicability of the rules governing obligations section2928. Nature of the contract section2929. Formation of the contract; delivery section2930. Diligence and prudence required section2931. Use of the thing deposited section2932. Use of consumable section2933. Return of the thing deposited section2934. Delivery of value received section2935. Delivery of civil and natural fruits section2936. Proof of ownership of the thing deposited not required; a stolen thing section2937. Place and expense of return section2938. Time of return section2939. Retention of the deposit section2940. Reimbursement of the depositary section2941. Obligation of innkeeper to accept the deposit section2942. Innkeeper as compensated depositary section2943. Availability of a safe section2944. Damaged or stolen things section2945. Limitation of innkeeper's liability section2946. Conventional sequestration; definition section2947. Applicable law section2948. Termination of conventional sequestration by the depositary section2949. Judicial sequestration section2950. Applicable law section2951. Judicial depositary section2982. Repealed by Acts 2019, No. 106, §2.section2983. Repealed by Acts 2019, No. 106, §2.section2984. Repealed by Acts 2019, No. 106, §2.section2985. Representation section2986. The authority of the representative section2987. Procuration defined; person to whom addressed section2988. Applicability of the rules of mandate section2989. Mandate defined section2990. Applicability of the rules governing obligations section2991. Interest served section2992. Onerous or gratuitous contract section2993. Form section2994. General authority section2995. Incidental, necessary, or professional acts section2996. Authority to alienate, acquire, encumber, or lease section2997. Express authority required section2998. Contracting with one's self section2999. Person of limited capacity section3000. Mandatary of both parties section3001. Mandatary's duty of performance; standard of care section3002. Gratuitous mandate; liability of a mandatary section3003. Obligation to provide information section3004. Obligation to deliver; right of retention section3005. Interest on money used by mandatary section3006. Fulfillment of the mandate by the mandatary section3007. Mandatary's liability for acts of the substitute section3008. Liability for acts beyond authority; ratification section3009. Liability of multiple mandataries section3010. Performance of obligations contracted by the mandatary section3011. Advantageous performance despite divergence from authority section3012. Reimbursement of expenses and remuneration section3013. Compensation for loss sustained by the mandatary section3014. Interest on sums expended by the mandatary section3015. Liability of several principals section3016. Disclosed mandate and principal section3017. Undisclosed mandate section3018. Disclosed mandate; undisclosed principal section3019. Liability when authority is exceeded section3020. Obligations of the principal to third persons section3021. Putative mandatary section3022. Disclosed mandate or principal; third person bound section3023. Undisclosed mandate or principal; obligations of third person section3024. Termination of the mandate and of the mandatary's authority section3025. Termination by principal section3026. Incapacity of the principal section3027. Reliance on public records section3028. Rights of third persons without notice of revocation section3029. Termination by the mandatary section3030. Acts of the mandatary after principal's death section3031. Contracts made after termination of the mandate or the mandatary's authority section3032. Obligation to account section3033. [Blank]section3034. [Blank]section3035. Definition of suretyship section3036. Obligations for which suretyship may be established section3037. Surety ostensibly bound as a principal with another; effect of knowledge of the creditor section3038. Formal requirements of suretyship section3039. Suretyship requires no formal acceptance section3040. Rules may be varied section3041. Kinds of suretyship section3042. Commercial suretyship section3043. Legal suretyship section3044. Ordinary suretyship; interpretation section3045. Liability of sureties to creditor; division and discussion abolished section3046. Defenses available to surety section3047. Rights of the surety section3048. Surety's right of subrogation section3049. Surety's right of reimbursement for payment of obligation section3050. Surety's right of reimbursement for payment of obligation not owed section3051. Payment by debtor without notice of payment by surety section3052. Limitation on right of surety to recover what he paid creditor section3053. Surety's right to require security section3054. Failure to provide security section3055. Liability among co-sureties section3056. Right of contribution among co-sureties section3057. Limitation upon right of contribution section3058. Extinction of the suretyship section3059. Extinction of principal obligation section3060. Prescription of the surety's obligation, right of reimbursement, and contribution section3061. Termination of suretyship section3062. Effect of modifications of principal obligation section3063. Commercial suretyship rules apply to legal suretyship section3064. Supplementary nature of this Chapter section3065. Qualifications of legal surety; evidenced by affidavit; lack thereof not a defense section3066. Legal suretyship to conform to law section3067. Permissible variations section3068. Pledge of funds in lieu of suretyship section3069. Necessity for judgment against legal surety section3070. Right to demand new security section3071. Compromise; definition section3072. Formal requirements; effects section3073. Capacity and form section3074. Lawful object section3075. Relative effect section3076. Scope of the act section3077. (Reserved).section3078. After-acquired rights section3079. Tender and acceptance of less than the amount of the claim section3080. Preclusive effect of compromise section3081. Effect on novation section3082. Rescission section3083. Compromise suspends prescription section3084. Repealed by Acts 2015, No. 64, §1.section3085. Repealed by Acts 2015, No. 64, §1.section3086. Repealed by Acts 2015, No. 64, §1.section3087. Repealed by Acts 2015, No. 64, §1.section3088. Repealed by Acts 2015, No. 64, §1.section3089. Repealed by Acts 2015, No. 64, §1.section3090. Repealed by Acts 2015, No. 64, §1.section3091. Repealed by Acts 2015, No. 64, §1.section3092. Repealed by Acts 2015, No. 64, §1.section3093. Repealed by Acts 2015, No. 64, §1.section3094. Repealed by Acts 2015, No. 64, §1.section3095. Repealed by Acts 2015, No. 64, §1.section3096. Repealed by Acts 2015, No. 64, §1.section3097. Repealed by Acts 2015, No. 64, §1.section3098. Repealed by Acts 2015, No. 64, §1.section3099. Submission to arbitrate.section3100. Writing necessary.section3101. Capacity of parties; authority of mandataries, tutors and curators.section3102. Scope of submission.section3103. Arbitration of damages incurred by public offense.section3104. Power of arbitrators.section3105. Duration of power of arbitrators; prescription section3106. Penal clauses in submission.section3107. Capacity of arbitrators section3108. Repealed by Acts 1979, No. 709, §2.section3109. Arbitrators and amicable compounders.section3110. Powers of arbitrators and amicable compounders.section3111. Oath of arbitrators.section3112. Presentation and proof of claims by parties.section3113. Time, place and notice of hearing.section3114. Attendance of parties and witnesses.section3115. Attendance and swearing in of witnesses.section3116. Disagreement among arbitrators; umpire.section3117. Nomination of umpire.section3118. Appointment of umpire.section3119. Oath of umpire.section3120. Time for decision of arbitrators.section3121. Arbitrators acting in excess of power, effect.section3122. Scope of arbitrators' authority.section3123. Award null after time limit.section3124. Extension of time for making award.section3125. Award made prior to time specified for examination.section3126. Participation in proceedings; signature of award.section3127. Amount of award.section3128. Interest and costs section3129. Approval of award by judge.section3130. Appeal from award; prepayment and repayment of penalty.section3131. Retraction or change of award prohibited.section3132. Termination of arbitration.section3133. Liability of an obligor for his obligations section3133.1. Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 281, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.section3134. Ratable treatment of creditors section3135. Limitations upon recourse section3136. Security defined section3137. Personal or real security section3138. Kinds of security section3139. Law governing security interest section3140. Nullity of agreement of forfeiture section3141. Pledge defined section3142. Property susceptible of pledge section3143. Pledge of property susceptible of encumbrance by security interest section3144. Accessory nature of pledge section3145. Preference afforded by pledge section3146. Obligations for which pledge may be given section3147. Pledge securing obligation that is not for the payment of money section3148. Pledge securing an obligation of another person section3149. Formal requirements of contract of pledge section3150. Acceptance section3151. Power to pledge section3152. Pledge of a thing not owned section3153. General requirements for effectiveness of pledge against third persons section3154. Effectiveness against third persons of the pledge of the lease of an immovable section3155. Effectiveness against third persons of the pledge of other obligations section3156. Pledgee's right of retention section3157. Indivisibility of pledge section3158. Enforcement of pledge of a movable section3159. Fruits of things pledged section3160. Pledge of obligation of a third person section3161. Performance by obligor of a pledged obligation section3162. Defenses available to obligor of a pledged obligation section3163. Clause prohibiting pledge section3164. Modification of contract from which a pledged obligation arises section3165. Attachment of pledge to obligations arising under modified or substituted contract section3166. Modification as default by pledgor section3167. Pledgee not bound for pledgor's obligations section3168. Requirements of contract section3169. Effectiveness against third persons section3170. Pledge contained in act of mortgage section3171. Pledge of all or part of the leases of an immovable section3172. Pledge of mineral payments by owner of land or holder of mineral servitude section3173. Accounting to other pledgees for rent collected section3174. Judicial sale prohibited section3175. Applicability of general rules of pledge section3176. Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 281, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.section3177. Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 281, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.section3178. Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 281, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.section3179. Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 281, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.section3180. Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 281, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.section3181. Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 281, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.section3182. Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 281, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.section3183. Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 281, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.section3184. Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 281, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.section3185. Privileges established only by law, stricti juris.section3186. Privilege, definition.section3187. Basis of preferences among privileges.section3188. Concurrent privileges.section3189. Property affected by privileges.section3190. General or special privileges on movables.section3191. General privileges on all movables, enumeration and ranking.section3192. Funeral charges, definition.section3193. Reduction of funeral charges of insolvent decedent.section3194. Limitation in event of reduction.section3195. Law charges, definition.section3196. Costs which enjoy privilege.section3197. Costs for the general benefit of creditors.section3198. Costs not taxed in suit.section3199. Last sickness, definition.section3200. Chronic sickness.section3201. Maximum period of privileged expenses.section3202. List of expenses privileged.section3203. Amount due for expenses, fixed by contract or by judge.section3204. Last sickness of debtor's children.section3205. Servants, definition.section3206. Prescription of action; extent of privilege.section3207. Wages recoverable but not privileged.section3208. Supplies furnished by retail dealers.section3209. Prescription of action; extent of privilege.section3210. Wholesale dealers.section3211. Innkeepers and masters of boarding houses.section3212. Teachers and preceptors.section3213. Extent of privilege for supplies.section3214. Clerks and secretaries, extent and rank of privilege for salaries.section3215. Repealed by Acts 1979, No. 709, §2.section3216. Special privileges on movables.section3217. List of special privileges on particular movables.section3218. Repealed by Acts 2004, No. 821, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2005.section3219. Method of enforcement of lessor's privilege section3220. Privilege of pledgee.section3221. Enforcement of pledge section3222. Privilege of depositor on thing deposited.section3223. Depositor's privilege on price in case of sale.section3224. Preservation of property of another.section3225. Rights of pledge and retention against owner.section3226. Right of preference against creditors.section3227. Vendor's privilege on movables; agricultural products of the United States.section3228. Loss of privilege by sale with other property of purchaser.section3229. Vendor's claim for restitution.section3230. Restitution dependent on identification.section3231. Restitution of things easily recognized.section3232. Innkeepers, definition.section3233. Innkeepers' rights on property of guests.section3234. Property covered by innkeepers' privilege.section3235. Travelers, definition.section3236. Sale or donation of unclaimed and unredeemed property, procedure.section3237. Privileges on ships and vessels, enumeration and ranking; prescription.section3238. Proportionate payment to creditors of same rank.section3239. Right of pursuit after sale of ship.section3240. Privilege on price of adjudication in case of forced sale.section3241. Voluntary sale, distinction between sale in port or on voyage.section3242. Voluntary sale of ship in port, rights of privileged creditors.section3243. Loss of privilege after voyage in name of purchaser.section3244. Voluntary sale of ship while on voyage, rights of privileged creditors.section3245. Voyage, definition.section3246. Captain's privilege on cargo for freight charges.section3247. Privilege of consignee or agent on merchandise consigned.section3248. Rights of consignor on insolvency of consignee or agent.section3249. Special privileges on immovables section3250. Extent of vendor's privilege.section3251. Successive sales, preference among vendors section3252. General privileges on both movables and immovables.section3253. Order of payment of privileges; debtor's movables taken before immovables.section3254. Special privileges prime general privileges on movables; ranking among general privileges when movables sufficient.section3255. Order of payment when available movables insufficient.section3256. Lessor's privilege primed by costs of sale.section3257. Lessor's privilege primed by funeral charges.section3258. Lessor's privilege primes other general privileges.section3259. Lessor's privilege on crops primed by supplies and labor.section3260. Ranking between privileges of lessor and depositor.section3261. Depositor's privilege and other privileges.section3262. Privilege for expenses of preservation and other privileges.section3263. Vendor's privilege and other privileges.section3264. Privilege of innkeepers.section3265. Privilege of carriers.section3266. Immovables liable when movables insufficient.section3267. Special privileges on immovables and other privileges section3268. Repealed by Acts 2019, No. 325, §3, eff. Jan. 1, 2020.section3269. Order of payment out of immovables; distribution of loss among mortgage creditors section3270. Effect of priorities among privileges.section3271. Vendor's privilege on immovables, recordation.section3272. Repealed by Acts 2019, No. 325, §3, eff. Jan. 1, 2020.section3273. Recordation, effect against third persons.section3274. Time and place of recordation; effectiveness section3275. Repealed by Acts 2016, No. 227, §2.section3276. Priority of claims against succession arising after death.section3277. Methods of extinction.section3278. Mortgage defined section3279. Rights created by mortgage section3280. Mortgage is an indivisible real right section3281. Mortgage established only in authorized cases section3282. Accessory nature section3283. Kinds of mortgages section3284. Conventional, legal, and judicial mortgages section3285. General and special mortgages distinguished section3286. Property susceptible of mortgage section3287. Conventional mortgage section3288. Requirements of contract of mortgage section3289. Acceptance section3290. Power to mortgage section3291. Presumption that things are subject to conventional mortgage section3292. Mortgage of future property permitted in certain cases section3293. Obligations for which mortgage may be established section3294. Mortgage securing obligation that is not for the payment of money section3295. Mortgage securing another's obligation section3296. Right of mortgagor to raise defenses section3297. Restrictions upon recourse of mortgagee section3298. Mortgage may secure future obligations section3299. Judicial and legal mortgages section3300. Creation of judicial mortgage section3301. Creation of legal mortgage section3302. Property burdened by judicial and legal mortgages section3303. Nature of judicial and legal mortgages section3304. Judgment; suspensive appeal section3305. Judgments of other jurisdictions section3306. Judgment against person deceased section3307. The effect and rank of mortgages section3308. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.section3309. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.section3310. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.section3311. Mortgage securing several obligations section3312. Transfer of the secured obligation section3313. Transfer does not imply subordination section3314. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.section3315. Third possessor defined section3316. Liability of third possessor section3317. Rights of third possessor section3318. Right of third possessor for costs of improvements section3319. Methods of extinction section3320. Recordation; limits of effectiveness section3321. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.section3322. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.section3323. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.section3324. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.section3325. Paraph of notes or written obligations secured by a mortgage, privilege, or other encumbrance section3326. Effect of mortgage filed after death of mortgagor section3327. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.section3328. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.section3329. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.section3330. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.section3331. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.section3332. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.section3333. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.section3334. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.section3335. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.section3336. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 169, §8, eff. July 1, 2006.section3337. Cancellation of mortgages and privileges from the records section3338. Instruments creating real rights in immovables; recordation required to affect third persons section3339. Matters not of record section3340. Effect of recording other documents section3341. Limits on the effect of recordation section3342. Parties to an instrument are precluded from raising certain matters section3343. Repealed by Acts 2025, No. 488, §2.section3344. Refusal for failure of original signature or proper certification; effect of recordation; necessity of proof of signature recordation of a duplicate section3345. Recordation of a duplicate section3346. Place of recordation; duty of the recorder section3347. Effect of recordation arises upon filing section3348. Time of filing; determination section3349. Failure to endorse; effect section3350. Presumption as to time of filing section3351. Ancient documents; presumptions section3352. Recorded acts; required information section3353. Effect of indefinite or incomplete name section3354. Applicability section3355. Mortgage, pledge, or privilege affecting property in several parishes section3356. Transfers, amendments, and releases section3357. Duration; general rule section3358. Duration of recordation of certain mortgages, pledges, and privileges section3359. Duration of recordation of judicial mortgage section3360. Duration of recordation of mortgage given by tutor, curator, or succession representative section3361. Effect of amendment section3362. Method of reinscription section3363. Method of reinscription exclusive section3364. Effect of timely recordation of notice of reinscription section3365. Effect of notice recorded after cessation of effect of recordation section3366. Cancellation upon written request; form and content section3367. Cancellation of recordation after effect of recordation has ceased section3368. Cancellation of judicial mortgage arising from judgment that has prescribed section3369. Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 1132, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.section3370. Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 1132, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.section3397. Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 1132, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.section3398. Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 1132, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.section3399. Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 1132, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.section3400. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.section3405. Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 1132, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.section3406. Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 1132, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.section3407. Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 1132, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.section3408. Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 1132, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.section3409. Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 1132, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.section3410. Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 1132, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.section3411. Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 1132, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.section3412. Occupancy section3413. Wild animals, birds, fish, and shellfish section3414. Loss of ownership of wildlife section3415. Wildlife in enclosures section3416. Tamed wild animals section3417. Domestic animals section3418. Abandoned things section3419. Lost things section3419.1. Lost things; domestic animals section3420. Treasure section3421. Possession section3422. Nature of possession; right to possess section3423. Rights of possessors section3424. Acquisition of possession section3425. Corporeal possession section3426. Constructive possession section3427. Presumption of intent to own the thing section3428. Acquisition of possession through another section3429. Exercise of possession by another section3430. Juridical persons section3431. Retention of possession; civil possession section3432. Presumption of retention of possession section3433. Loss of possession section3434. Loss of the right to possess section3435. Vices of possession section3436. Violent, clandestine, discontinuous, and equivocal possession section3437. Precarious possession section3438. Presumption of precariousness section3439. Termination of precarious possession section3440. Protection of precarious possession section3441. Transfer of possession section3442. Tacking of possession section3443. Presumption of continuity of possession section3444. Possessory action section3445. Kinds of prescription section3446. Acquisitive prescription section3447. Liberative prescription section3448. Prescription of nonuse section3449. Renunciation of prescription section3450. Express or tacit renunciation section3451. Capacity to renounce section3452. Necessity for pleading prescription section3453. Rights of creditors and other interested parties section3454. Computation of time section3455. Computation of time by months section3456. Computation of time by years section3457. Prescription established by legislation only section3458. Peremption; effect section3459. Application of rules of prescription section3460. Peremption need not be pleaded section3461. Renunciation, interruption, or suspension ineffective section3462. Interruption by filing of action or by service of process section3463. Duration of interruption; abandonment or discontinuance of suit section3464. Interruption by acknowledgment section3465. Interruption of acquisitive prescription section3466. Effect of interruption section3467. Persons against whom prescription runs section3468. Incompetents section3469. Suspension of prescription section3470. Prescription during delays for inventory; vacant succession section3471. Limits of contractual freedom section3472. Effect of suspension section3472.1. Emergency suspension of prescription and peremption section3473. Prescription of ten years section3474. Incompetents section3475. Requisites section3476. Attributes of possession section3477. Precarious possessor; inability to prescribe section3478. Termination of precarious possession; commencement of prescription section3479. Particular successor of precarious possessor section3480. Good faith section3481. Presumption of good faith section3482. Good faith at commencement of prescription section3483. Just title section3484. Transfer of undivided part of an immovable section3485. Things susceptible of prescription section3486. Immovables; prescription of thirty years section3487. Restriction as to extent of possession section3488. Applicability of rules governing prescription of ten years section3489. Movables; acquisitive prescription section3490. Prescription of three years section3491. Prescription of ten years section3492. Repealed by Acts 2024, No. 423, §2, eff. July 1, 2024.section3493. Repealed by Acts 2024, No. 423, §2, eff. July 1, 2024.section3493.1. Delictual actions section3493.2. Damage to immovable property; commencement and accrual of prescription section3493.3. Delictual actions; two-year prescription; criminal act section3493.10. Redesignated as C.C. Art. 3493.3 by Acts 2024, No. 423, §1.section3494. Actions subject to a three-year prescription section3495. Commencement and accrual of prescription section3496. Action against attorney for return of papers section3496.1. Action against a person for abuse of a minor section3496.2. Action against a person for sexual assault section3497. Actions subject to a five year prescription section3497.1. Actions for arrearages of spousal support or of installment payments for contributions made to a spouse's education or training section3498. Actions on negotiable and nonnegotiable instruments section3499. Personal action section3500. Action against contractors and architects section3501. Prescription and revival of money judgments section3501.1. Actions for arrearages of child support section3502. Action for the recognition of a right of inheritance section3503. Solidary obligors section3504. Surety section3505. Acts extending liberative prescription section3505.1. Formal requirements section3505.2. Commencement of period of extension section3505.3. Effect of extension on other obligors and obligees section3505.4. Interruption or suspension during a period of extension section3506. General definitions of terms section3507. Repealed by Acts 1982, No. 187, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1983 section3514. Multistate cases section3515. Determination of the applicable law; general and residual rule section3516. Meaning of "State"section3517. Renvoi section3518. Domicile section3519. Status of natural persons; general principle section3520. Marriage section3521. Divorce or separation section3522. Effects and incidents of marriage and of divorce section3523. Movables section3524. Immovables situated in this state section3525. Termination of community; immovables in another state acquired by a spouse while domiciled in this state section3526. Termination of community; movables and Louisiana immovables acquired by a spouse while domiciled in another state section3527. Louisiana immovables acquired by a spouse while domiciled in another state; death of the acquiring spouse while domiciled in another state section3528. Formal validity of testamentary dispositions section3529. Capacity and vices of consent section3530. Capacity of heir or legatee section3531. Interpretation of testaments section3532. Movables section3533. Immovables situated in this state section3534. Immovables situated in another state section3535. Real rights in immovables section3536. Real rights in corporeal movables section3537. General rule section3538. Form section3539. Capacity section3540. Party autonomy section3541. Other juridical acts and quasi-contractual obligations section3542. General rule section3543. Issues of conduct and safety section3544. Issues of loss distribution and financial protection section3545. Products liability section3546. Punitive damages section3547. Exceptional cases section3548. Domicile of juridical persons section3549. Law governing liberative prescription section3550. Repealed by Acts 1983, No. 173, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.section3556. [Blank]

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