Louisiana Laws
Civil Code
Art. 2815. Effect of loss stipulation on third persons.

Art. 2815. Effect of loss stipulation on third persons.
A provision that a partner shall not participate in losses does not affect third persons.
Acts 1980, No. 150, §1.

Structure Louisiana Laws

Louisiana Laws

Civil Code

Art. 1. Sources of law

Art. 2. Legislation

Art. 3. Custom

Art. 4. Absence of legislation or custom

Art. 5. Ignorance of law

Art. 6. Retroactivity of laws

Art. 7. Laws for the preservation of the public interest

Art. 8. Repeal of laws

Art. 9. Clear and unambiguous law

Art. 10. Language susceptible of different meanings

Art. 11. Meaning of words

Art. 12. Ambiguous words

Art. 13. Laws on the same subject matter

Art. 14. Multistate cases

Art. 24. Kinds of persons

Art. 25. Commencement and end of natural personality

Art. 26. Art. 26. Unborn child

Art. 27. General legal capacity

Art. 28. Capacity to make juridical acts

Art. 29. Age of majority

Art. 30. Presumption of death

Art. 31. Existence of a person at time of accrual of a right

Art. 38. Domicile

Art. 39. Domicile and residence

Art. 40. Domicile of spouses

Art. 41. Domicile of unemancipated minor.

Art. 42. Domicile of interdict

Art. 43. Domicile of person under continued or permanent tutorship

Art. 44. Change of domicile

Art. 45. Proof of intent to change domicile

Art. 46. Person holding temporary position

Art. 47. Curator of an absent person's property

Art. 48. Powers, rights, and duties of curator

Art. 49. Legal capacity of absent person

Art. 50. Termination of curatorship of right

Art. 51. Termination by judgment of declaration of death

Art. 52. Effects of termination of curatorship

Art. 53. Validity of acts of curator after termination of the curatorship

Art. 54. Absent person; declaration of death

Art. 55. Declaration of death; effect

Art. 56. New evidence as to time of death

Art. 57. Reappearance of absent person; recovery of his property

Art. 58. Succession rights of person presumed dead or declared dead

Art. 59. Reappearance of absent person; recovery of his inheritance

Art. 60. Arts. 60 to 85 repealed by Acts 1990, No. 989, 1, eff. January 1, 1991.

Art. 86. Marriage; definition

Art. 87. Contract of marriage; requirements

Art. 88. Impediment of existing marriage

Art. 89. Impediment of same sex

Art. 90. Impediments of relationship

Art. 90.1. Impediment of age

Art. 91. Marriage ceremony required

Art. 92. Marriage by procuration prohibited

Art. 93. Vices of consent

Art. 3520. Marriage

Art. 3521. Divorce or separation

Art. 3522. Effects and incidents of marriage and of divorce

Art. 94. Absolutely null marriage

Art. 95. Relatively null marriage; confirmation

Art. 96. Civil effects of absolutely null marriage; putative marriage

Art. 97. Civil effects of relatively null marriage

Art. 98. Mutual duties of married persons

Art. 99. Family authority

Art. 100. Surname of married persons

Art. 101. Termination of marriage

Art. 102. Judgment of divorce; living separate and apart prior to rule

Art. 103. Judgment of divorce; other grounds

Art. 103.1. Judgment of divorce; time periods

Art. 104. Reconciliation

Art. 105. Determination of incidental matters

Art. 111. Spousal support; authority of court

Art. 112. Determination of final periodic support

Art. 113. Interim spousal support

Art. 114. Modification or termination of award of support

Art. 115. Extinguishment of support obligation

Art. 116. Modification of spousal support obligation

Art. 117. Peremptive period for obligation

Art. 118. Repealed

Art. 121. Claim for contributions to education or training; authority of court

Art. 122. Nature of action

Art. 123. Form of award; effect of remarriage or death

Art. 124. Prescription of spousal claim for contributions

Art. 131. Court to determine custody

Art. 132. Award of custody to parents

Art. 133. Award of custody to person other than a parent; order of preference

Art. 134. Factors in determining child's best interest

Art. 135. Closed custody hearing

Art. 136. Award of visitation rights

Art. 136.1. Award of visitation rights

Art. 137. Denial of visitation; felony rape; death of a parent

Art. 141. Child support; authority of court

Art. 142. Modification or termination of child support award

Art. 149. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1009, 9, eff. Jan. 1, 1991.

Art. 150. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1009, 9, eff. Jan. 1, 1991.

Art. 151. Proceeding for declaration of nullity of a marriage; interim incidental relief

Art. 152. Proceeding for declaration of nullity of a marriage; final incidental relief

Art. 153. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1009, 9, eff. Jan. 1, 1991.

Art. 154. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1009, 9, eff. Jan. 1, 1991.

Art. 155. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1009, 9, eff. Jan. 1, 1991.

Art. 156. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1009, 9, eff. Jan. 1, 1991.

Art. 159. Effect of divorce on community property regime

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Art. 161. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1008, 6, eff. Jan. 1, 1991.

Art. 162. Arts. 162 to 175 Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 705, 1.

Art. 178. Definition

Art. 179. Establishment of filiation

Art. 184. Maternity

Art. 185. Presumption of paternity of husband

Art. 186. Presumption if child is born after divorce or after death of husband; effect of disavowal

Art. 187. Disavowal action; proof

Art. 188. Disavowal precluded in case of assisted conception

Art. 189. Time limit for disavowal by the husband

Art. 190. Time limit for disavowal by heir or legatee

Art. 190.1. Three-party acknowledgment; alternative to disavowal; time period

Art. 191. Contestation and establishment of paternity by mother

Art. 192. Contestation action; proof

Art. 193. Contestation and establishment of paternity; time period

Art. 194. Judgment in contestation action

Art. 195. Presumption by marriage and acknowledgment; child not filiated to another man; proof; time period

Art. 196. Formal acknowledgment; presumption

Art. 197. Child's action to establish paternity; proof; time period

Art. 198. Father's action to establish paternity; time period

Art. 199. Effect of adoption.

Art. 200. Adoption of minors

Art. 201. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 192, §1, eff. June 29, 2005.

Art. 202. Repealed by Acts 1979, No. 607, 4.

Art. 203. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 192, §1, eff. June 29, 2005.

Art. 204. Repealed by Acts 1979, No. 607, 4.

Art. 205. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 192, §1, eff. June 29, 2005.

Art. 206. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 192, §1, eff. June 29, 2005.

Art. 207. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 192, §1, eff. June 29, 2005.

Art. 208. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 192, §1, eff. June 29, 2005.

Art. 209. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 192, §1, eff. June 29, 2005.

Art. 210. Repealed by Acts 1980, No. 549, 2.

Art. 211. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 192, §1, eff. June 29, 2005.

Art. 212. Adult adoption requirements

Art. 213. Adult adoption; form

Art. 214. Adult adoption; recordation requirement

Art. 215. Repealed

Art. 216. Repealed

Art. 217. Repealed

Art. 218. Repealed

Art. 219. Repealed

Art. 220. Repealed

Art. 221. Authority of married parents

Art. 222. Representation of minor

Art. 223. Rights and obligations of parental authority

Art. 224. Parental obligation of support and education

Art. 225. Parental liability for child's offenses and quasi-offenses

Art. 226. Parental obligation of direction

Art. 227. Parental control

Art. 228. Child's obligation of obedience; parental correction

Art. 229. Administration of the property of the child

Art. 230. Alienation, encumbrance, or lease of the property of the child; expenditure of fruits

Art. 231. Parents' obligation to deliver and account

Art. 232. Parental authority

Art. 233. Delegation of parental authority

Art. 234. Parental authority; custody award

Art. 235. Termination of parental authority

Art. 236. Filial honor and respect

Art. 237. Obligation of providing the basic necessities of life; ascendants and descendants; exceptions

Art. 238. Amount of support

Art. 239. Modification or termination of support

Art. 240. Repealed

Art. 241. Repealed

Art. 242. Repealed

Art. 243. Repealed

Art. 244. Repealed

Art. 245. Repealed

Art. 246. Occasion for tutorship.

Art. 247. Kinds of tutorships.

Art. 248. Modes of establishment of tutorships.

Art. 249. Accountability of tutor.

Art. 250. Persons entitled to tutorship

Art. 251. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.

Art. 252. Unborn and posthumous children.

Art. 253. Repealed by Acts 1974, No. 163, 2.

Art. 254. Arts. 254, 255 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2

Art. 256. Children born outside of marriage

Art. 257. Surviving parent's right of appointment.

Art. 258. Right of appointment where parents are divorced or separated

Art. 259. Option of acceptance of tutorship.

Art. 260. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.

Art. 261. Child born outside of marriage

Art. 262. Appointment of several tutors; order of priority.

Art. 263. Qualified ascendants; collaterals by blood; surviving spouse.

Art. 270. Occasion for tutorship.

Art. 273. Necessity for appointment.

Art. 278. Liability concerning minor's legal mortgage.

Art. 279. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.

Art. 280. Termination of undertutorship.

Art. 281. Arts. 281 to 291 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.

Art. 292. Excuse by reason of office or function.

Art. 293. Waiver of excuse by subsequent acceptance of tutorship.

Art. 294. Subsequently acquired excuse.

Art. 295. Excuse for remote relationship.

Art. 296. Excuse for age.

Art. 297. Excuse for infirmity.

Art. 298. Excuse for prior tutorships

Art. 299. Time to present excuse.

Art. 300. Provisional administration pending consideration of excuse.

Art. 301. Parent's unconditional obligation of tutorship.

Art. 302. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2

Art. 307. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.

Art. 308. Duty to apply for appointment.

Art. 309. Minors exempt from taking application.

Art. 310. Liability for failure to make application.

Art. 311. Action for damages; prescription.

Art. 322. Minor's legal mortgage on tutor's property.

Art. 333. Sale of mortgaged property by one claimant; inscription of legal mortgage of remaining minors.

Art. 336. Alienation of minor's immovables.

Art. 337. Repealed by Acts 2001, No. 572, 2.

Art. 338. Interest.

Art. 339. Agreements between tutor and minor.

Art. 340. Prescription of minor's action against tutor.

Art. 354. Procedure for placing under tutorship.

Art. 355. Petition for continuing or permanent tutorship

Art. 356. Title of proceedings; procedural rules; parents as tutor and undertutor.

Art. 357. Decree, place of recording, notice.

Art. 358. Authority, privileges, and duties of tutor and undertutor; termination of tutorship.

Art. 359. Restriction on legal capacity.

Art. 360. Parents' rights of administration.

Art. 361. Contest of decree restricting legal capacity.

Art. 362. Persons subject to interdiction.

Art. 365. Emancipation

Art. 366. Judicial emancipation

Art. 367. Emancipation by marriage

Art. 368. Limited emancipation by authentic act

Art. 369. Emancipation; when effective

Art. 370. Modification and termination of judicial emancipation

Art. 371. Modification or termination of limited emancipation by authentic act

Art. 389. Full interdiction

Art. 390. Limited interdiction

Art. 391. Temporary and preliminary interdiction

Art. 392. Curators

Art. 393. Undercurators

Art. 394. Pre-interdiction juridical acts

Art. 395. Capacity to make juridical acts

Art. 396. Effective date of judgment of interdiction

Art. 397. Modification and termination of interdiction

Art. 398. Effective date of modification or termination of a judgment of interdiction

Art. 399. Responsibility for wrongful filing of interdiction petition

Art. 448. Division of things.

Art. 449. Common things.

Art. 450. Public things.

Art. 451. Seashore.

Art. 452. Public things and common things subject to public use.

Art. 453. Private things.

Art. 454. Freedom of disposition by private persons.

Art. 455. Private things subject to public use.

Art. 456. Banks of navigable rivers or streams.

Art. 457. Roads; public or private.

Art. 458. Works obstructing the public use.

Art. 459. Building encroaching on public way.

Art. 460. Construction of navigation facilities on public places by port commissions or municipalities.

Art. 461. Corporeals and incorporeals.

Art. 462. Tracts of land.

Art. 463. Component parts of tracts of land.

Art. 464. Buildings and standing timber as separate immovables.

Art. 465. Things incorporated into an immovable.

Art. 466. Component parts of a building or other construction

Art. 467. Immovables by declaration.

Art. 468. Deimmobilization.

Art. 469. Transfer or encumbrance of immovable.

Art. 470. Incorporeal immovables.

Art. 471. Corporeal movables.

Art. 472. Building materials.

Art. 473. Incorporeal movables.

Art. 474. Movables by anticipation.

Art. 475. Things not immovable.

Art. 476. Rights in things.

Art. 477. Ownership; content

Art. 478. Resolutory condition; real right in favor of other person.

Art. 479. Necessity of a person.

Art. 480. Co-ownership.

Art. 481. Ownership and possession distinguished.

Art. 482. Accession.

Art. 483. Ownership of fruits by accession.

Art. 484. Young of animals.

Art. 485. Fruits produced by a third person; reimbursement.

Art. 486. Possessor's right to fruits.

Art. 487. Possessor in good faith; definition.

Art. 488. Products; reimbursement of expenses.

Art. 489. Apportionment of fruits.

Art. 490. Accession above and below the surface.

Art. 491. Buildings, other constructions, standing timber, and crops.

Art. 492. Separate ownership of part of a building.

Art. 493. Ownership of improvements

Art. 493.1. Ownership of component parts

Art. 493.2. Loss of ownership by accession; claims of former owner

Art. 494. Constructions by landowner with materials of another.

Art. 495. Things incorporated in, or attached to, an immovable with the consent of the owner of the immovable.

Art. 496. Constructions by possessor in good faith.

Art. 497. Constructions by bad faith possessor.

Art. 498. Claims against third persons

Art. 499. Alluvion and dereliction.

Art. 500. Shore of the sea or of a lake.

Art. 501. Division of alluvion.

Art. 502. Sudden action of waters.

Art. 503. Island formed by river opening a new channel.

Art. 504. Ownership of abandoned bed when river changes course.

Art. 505. Islands and sandbars in navigable rivers.

Art. 506. Ownership of beds of nonnavigable rivers or streams.

Art. 507. Accession as between movables.

Art. 508. Things principal and accessory.

Art. 509. Value or bulk as a basis to determine principal thing.

Art. 510. Union of a principal and an accessory thing.

Art. 511. Ownership of new thing made with materials of another.

Art. 512. Effect of bad faith.

Art. 513. Use of materials of two owners; separation or co-ownership.

Art. 514. Mixture of materials.

Art. 515. Recovery of materials or value in lieu of ownership.

Art. 516. Liability for unauthorized use of a movable.

Art. 517. Voluntary transfer of ownership of an immovable

Art. 518. Voluntary transfer of the ownership of a movable

Art. 519. Transfer of action for recovery of movable.

Art. 520. Repealed by Acts 1981, No. 125, 1.

Art. 521. Lost or stolen thing.

Art. 522. Transfer of ownership by owner under annullable title.

Art. 523. Good faith; definition.

Art. 524. Recovery of lost or stolen things.

Art. 525. Registered movables.

Art. 526. Recognition of ownership; recovery of the thing.

Art. 527. Necessary expenses.

Art. 528. Useful expenses.

Art. 529. Right of retention.

Art. 530. Presumption of ownership of movable.

Art. 531. Proof of ownership of immovable.

Art. 532. Common author.

Art. 533. Kinds of servitudes.

Art. 534. Personal servitude.

Art. 535. Usufruct.

Art. 536. Consumable things.

Art. 537. Nonconsumable things.

Art. 538. Usufruct of consumable things

Art. 539. Usufruct of nonconsumable things.

Art. 540. Nature of usufruct.

Art. 541. Divisibility of usufruct.

Art. 542. Divisibility of naked ownership.

Art. 543. Partition of the property in kind or by licitation

Art. 544. Methods of establishing usufruct; things susceptible of usufruct.

Art. 545. Modifications of usufruct.

Art. 546. Usufruct in favor of successive usufructuaries.

Art. 547. Usufruct in favor of several usufructuaries.

Art. 548. Existence of usufructuaries.

Art. 549. Capacity to receive usufruct

Art. 550. Right to all fruits.

Art. 551. Kinds of fruits.

Art. 552. Corporate distributions.

Art. 553. Voting of shares of stock and other rights

Art. 554. Commencement of the right to fruits.

Art. 555. Nonapportionment of natural fruits.

Art. 556. Apportionment of civil fruits.

Art. 557. Possession and use of the things.

Art. 558. Improvements and alterations

Art. 559. Accessories.

Art. 560. Trees, stones, and other materials.

Art. 561. Mines and quarries.

Art. 562. Usufruct of timberlands.

Art. 563. Alluvion.

Art. 564. Treasure.

Art. 565. Predial servitudes.

Art. 566. Actions.

Art. 567. Contracts affecting the usufructuary's liability

Art. 568. Disposition of nonconsumable things

Art. 568.1. Donation and alienation

Art. 568.2. Right to lease

Art. 568.3. Requirement to remove encumbrance

Art. 569. Duties with regard to things gradually or totally impaired

Art. 570. Inventory.

Art. 571. Security

Art. 572. Amount of security.

Art. 573. Dispensation of security

Art. 574. Delay in giving security

Art. 575. Failure to give security

Art. 576. Standard of care.

Art. 577. Liability for repairs

Art. 578. Ordinary and extraordinary repairs.

Art. 579. Rights of action for repairs.

Art. 580. Reimbursement for necessary repairs

Art. 581. Liability for necessary expenses

Art. 582. Abandonment of usufruct.

Art. 583. Ruin from accident, force majeure, or age

Art. 584. Periodic charges

Art. 585. Extraordinary charges.

Art. 586. Liability for debts; usufruct inter vivos

Art. 587. Liability for debts; usufruct established mortis causa

Art. 588. Discharge of debt on encumbered property; usufruct established inter vivos

Art. 589. Discharge of debt on encumbered property by mortis causa usufructuary

Art. 590. Encumbered property; discharge of debt on encumbered property by naked owner

Art. 591. Continuation of usufruct after sale of property

Art. 592. Multiple usufructuaries; contribution to payment of estate debts

Art. 593. Discharge of legacy of annuity

Art. 594. Court costs; expenses of litigation

Art. 595. Expenses of litigation; legal usufruct.

Art. 596. Expenses of litigation; conventional usufruct.

Art. 597. Liability of the usufructuary for servitudes.

Art. 598. Duty to give information to owner.

Art. 599. Usufruct of a herd of animals.

Art. 600. Disposition of animals.

Art. 601. Removal of improvements

Art. 602. Set off against damages.

Art. 603. Disposition of the naked ownership; alienation or encumbrance of the property

Art. 604. Servitudes

Art. 605. Toleration of the enjoyment.

Art. 606. Improvements.

Art. 607. Death of the usufructuary.

Art. 608. Dissolution of juridical person; thirty year limitation

Art. 609. Termination of legacy of revenues.

Art. 610. Usufruct for a term or under condition.

Art. 611. Term; transfer of usufruct to another person.

Art. 612. Term; third person reaching a certain age.

Art. 613. Loss, extinction, or destruction of property

Art. 614. Fault of a third person.

Art. 615. Change of the form of property

Art. 616. Sale or exchange of the property; taxes

Art. 617. Proceeds of insurance.

Art. 618. Security for proceeds

Art. 619. Changes made by the testator

Art. 620. Sale of the property or of the usufruct

Art. 621. Prescription of nonuse.

Art. 622. Confusion of usufruct and naked ownership.

Art. 623. Abuse of the enjoyment; consequences

Art. 624. Security to prevent termination

Art. 625. Intervention by creditors of the usufructuary

Art. 626. Renunciation; rights of creditors.

Art. 627. Right of retention.

Art. 628. Consequences of termination; usufruct of nonconsumables.

Art. 629. Consequences of termination; usufruct of consumables.

Art. 630. Habitation.

Art. 631. Establishment and extinction.

Art. 632. Regulation by title.

Art. 633. Persons residing in the house.

Art. 634. Extent of right of habitation.

Art. 635. Degree of care; duty to restore the property.

Art. 636. Taxes, repairs, and other charges.

Art. 637. Nontransferable and nonheritable right.

Art. 638. Duration of habitation.

Art. 639. Right of use.

Art. 640. Content of the servitude.

Art. 641. Persons having the servitude.

Art. 642. Extent of the servitude.

Art. 643. Transferable right.

Art. 644. Heritable right.

Art. 645. Regulation of the servitude.

Art. 646. Predial servitude; definition.

Art. 647. Benefit to dominant estate.

Art. 648. Contiguity or proximity of the estates.

Art. 649. Nature; incorporeal immovable.

Art. 650. Inseparability of servitude

Art. 651. Obligations of the owner of the servient estate

Art. 652. Indivisibility of servitude.

Art. 653. Division of advantages.

Art. 654. Kinds of predial servitudes.

Art. 655. Natural drainage.

Art. 656. Obligations of the owners.

Art. 657. Estate bordering on running water.

Art. 658. Estate through which water runs.

Art. 659. Legal servitudes; notion.

Art. 660. Keeping buildings in repair

Art. 661. Building in danger of falling.

Art. 662. Building near a wall.

Art. 663. Projections over boundary.

Art. 664. Rain drip from roof.

Art. 665. Legal public servitudes.

Art. 666. River road; substitution if destroyed or impassable.

Art. 667. Limitations on use of property

Art. 668. Inconvenience to neighbor.

Art. 669. Regulation of inconvenience.

Art. 670. Encroaching building.

Art. 671. Destruction of private property to arrest fire.

Art. 672. Other legal servitudes.

Art. 673. Common wall servitude.

Art. 674. Contribution by neighbor.

Art. 675. Presumption of common wall.

Art. 676. Adjoining wall.

Art. 677. Rights and obligations of co-owners.

Art. 678. Cost of repairs.

Art. 679. Abandonment of common wall.