Art. 3150. Acceptance
A written contract of pledge need not be signed by the pledgee, whose consent is presumed and whose acceptance may be tacit.
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Art. 4. Absence of legislation or custom
Art. 7. Laws for the preservation of the public interest
Art. 9. Clear and unambiguous law
Art. 10. Language susceptible of different meanings
Art. 13. Laws on the same subject matter
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. 31. Existence of a person at time of accrual of a right
Art. 39. Domicile and residence
Art. 41. Domicile of unemancipated minor.
Art. 42. Domicile of interdict
Art. 43. Domicile of person under continued or permanent tutorship
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 Arts. 60 to 85 repealed by Acts 1990, No. 989, 1, eff.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. 87. Contract of marriage; requirements
Art. 88. Impediment of existing marriage
Art. 89. Impediment of same sex
Art. 90. Impediments of relationship
Art. 91. Marriage ceremony required
Art. 92. Marriage by procuration prohibited
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. 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. 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. 121. Claim for contributions to education or training; authority of court
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
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. 179. Establishment of filiation
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 233. Delegation of parental authority
Art. 234. Parental authority; custody award
Art. 235. Termination of parental authority
Art. 236. Filial honor and respect
Art. 239. Modification or termination of support
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. 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. 336. Alienation of minor's immovables.
Art. 337. Repealed by Acts 2001, No. 572, 2.
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. 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. 390. Limited interdiction
Art. 391. Temporary and preliminary interdiction
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. 452. Public things and common things subject to public use.
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. 461. Corporeals and incorporeals.
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. 469. Transfer or encumbrance of immovable.
Art. 470. Incorporeal immovables.
Art. 473. Incorporeal movables.
Art. 474. Movables by anticipation.
Art. 475. Things not immovable.
Art. 478. Resolutory condition; real right in favor of other person.
Art. 479. Necessity of a person.
Art. 481. Ownership and possession distinguished.
Art. 483. Ownership of fruits by accession.
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. 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. 530. Presumption of ownership of movable.
Art. 531. Proof of ownership of immovable.
Art. 533. Kinds of servitudes.
Art. 537. Nonconsumable things.
Art. 538. Usufruct of consumable things
Art. 539. Usufruct of nonconsumable things.
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. 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. 560. Trees, stones, and other materials.
Art. 562. Usufruct of timberlands.
Art. 567. Contracts affecting the usufructuary's liability
Art. 568. Disposition of nonconsumable things
Art. 568.1. Donation and alienation
Art. 568.3. Requirement to remove encumbrance
Art. 569. Duties with regard to things gradually or totally impaired
Art. 573. Dispensation of security
Art. 574. Delay in giving security
Art. 575. Failure to give security
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. 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. 605. Toleration of the enjoyment.
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. 628. Consequences of termination; usufruct of nonconsumables.
Art. 629. Consequences of termination; usufruct of consumables.
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. 640. Content of the servitude.
Art. 641. Persons having the servitude.
Art. 642. Extent of the servitude.
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. 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. 677. Rights and obligations of co-owners.
Art. 679. Abandonment of common wall.
Art. 680. Rights in common walls.
Art. 682. Raising the height of common wall.
Art. 683. Neighbor's right to make the raised part common.
Art. 687. Trees, bushes, and plants on the boundary.
Art. 688. Branches or roots of trees, bushes, or plants on neighboring property.
Art. 689. Enclosed estate; right of passage
Art. 693. Enclosed estate; voluntary act.
Art. 694. Enclosed estate; voluntary alienation or partition
Art. 695. Relocation of servitude.
Art. 696. Prescriptibility of action for indemnity.
Art. 697. Right to establish predial servitudes; limitations.
Art. 698. Property susceptible of servitudes.
Art. 699. Examples of predial servitudes.
Art. 700. Servitude of support.
Art. 702. Prohibition of view.
Art. 704. Prohibition of light.
Art. 705. Servitude of passage
Art. 706. Servitudes; affirmative or negative.
Art. 707. Servitudes; apparent or nonapparent.
Art. 708. Establishment of predial servitude.
Art. 712. Owner for a term or under condition.
Art. 713. Purchaser with reservation of redemption.
Art. 714. Co-owner; servitude on entire estate.
Art. 715. Exercise of the servitude.
Art. 716. Servitude on undivided part.
Art. 718. Partition by licitation.
Art. 719. Successor of the co-owner.
Art. 720. Additional servitudes.
Art. 721. Servitude on mortgaged property.
Art. 722. Modes of establishment.
Art. 723. Servitudes on public things.
Art. 724. Multiple dominant or servient estates.
Art. 725. Reciprocal servitudes.
Art. 726. Servitude on after-acquired property.
Art. 727. Servitude on part of an estate.
Art. 729. Conventional alteration of legal or natural servitude.
Art. 730. Interpretation of servitude.
Art. 731. Charge expressly for the benefit of an estate.
Art. 732. Interpretation in the absence of express declaration.
Art. 733. Interpretation; benefit of dominant estate.
Art. 734. Interpretation; convenience of a person.
Art. 735. Persons acquiring servitude.
Art. 736. Capacity to acquire servitude.
Art. 737. Renunciation of servitude by owner of dominant estate.
Art. 738. No revocation by grantor.
Art. 739. Acquisition by title only.
Art. 740. Modes of acquisition of servitudes.
Art. 741. Destination of the owner.
Art. 742. Acquisitive prescription.
Art. 744. Necessary works; cost of repairs.
Art. 745. Right to enter into the servient estate.
Art. 746. Exoneration from responsibility by abandonment of the servient estate.
Art. 747. Division of dominant estate.
Art. 748. Noninterference by the owner of servient estate.
Art. 749. Extent and manner of use of servitude when title is silent.
Art. 750. Location of servitude when the title is silent.
Art. 751. Destruction of dominant or of servient estate.
Art. 752. Reestablishment of things.
Art. 753. Prescription for nonuse.
Art. 754. Commencement of nonuse.
Art. 755. Obstacle to servitude.
Art. 756. Failure to rebuild dominant or servient estate.
Art. 757. Sufficiency of acts by third persons.
Art. 758. Imprescriptibility of natural servitudes.
Art. 760. More extensive use than title.
Art. 761. Use of accessory right.
Art. 763. Minority or other disability.
Art. 764. Burden of proof of use.
Art. 766. Resolutory condition.
Art. 767. Acceptance of succession; confusion
Art. 768. Confusion; separate and community property.
Art. 769. Irrevocability of extinction by confusion.
Art. 770. Abandonment of servient estate.
Art. 771. Renunciation of servitude.
Art. 772. Renunciation by owner.
Art. 773. Expiration of time or happening of condition.
Art. 774. Dissolution of the right of the grantor.
Art. 775. Building restrictions.
Art. 777. Nature and regulation.
Art. 780. Amendment and termination of building restrictions
Art. 781. Termination; liberative prescription.
Art. 782. Abandonment of plan or of restriction.
Art. 783. Matters of interpretation and application
Art. 785. Fixing of the boundary.
Art. 786. Persons who may compel fixing of boundary.
Art. 787. Lessee may compel lessor.
Art. 788. Imprescriptibility of the right.
Art. 789. Fixing of boundary judicially or extrajudicially.
Art. 791. Liability for unauthorized removal of markers.
Art. 792. Fixing of boundary according to ownership or possession
Art. 793. Determination of ownership according to titles.
Art. 794. Determination of ownership according to prescription.
Art. 795. Effect of boundary agreement.
Art. 796. Error in the location of markers; rectification.
Art. 797. Ownership in indivision; definition
Art. 798. Right to fruits and products
Art. 799. Liability of a co-owner
Art. 800. Preservation of the thing
Art. 801. Use and management by agreement
Art. 802. Right to use the thing
Art. 803. Use and management of the thing in the absence of agreement
Art. 804. Substantial alterations or improvements
Art. 805. Disposition of undivided share
Art. 806. Expenses of maintenance and management
Art. 807. Right to partition; exclusion by agreement
Art. 809. Judicial and extrajudicial partition
Art. 811. Partition by licitation or by private sale
Art. 812. Effect of partition on real rights
Art. 814. Rescission of partition for lesion
Art. 815. Partition by licitation
Art. 816. Partition in kind; warranty
Art. 817. Imprescriptibility of action
Art. 818. Other rights held in indivision
Art. 819. Arts. 819 to 822 Repealed by Acts 1977, No. 514, 1.
Art. 823. Arts. 823 to 855 Repealed by Acts 1977, No. 170, 1
Art. 856. Arts. 856 to 869 Repealed by Acts 1977, No. 169, 1.
Art. 870. Modes of acquiring ownership
Art. 871. Meaning of succession
Art. 875. Intestate succession
Art. 880. Intestate succession
Art. 881. Representation: effect
Art. 882. Representation in direct line of descendants
Art. 883. Representation of ascendants not permissible
Art. 884. Representation in collateral line
Art. 885. Basis of partition in cases of representation
Art. 886. Representation of deceased persons only
Art. 887. Representation of decedent whose succession was renounced
Art. 888. Succession rights of descendants
Art. 889. Devolution of community property
Art. 890. Usufruct of surviving spouse
Art. 891. Devolution of separate property; parents and brothers and sisters
Art. 893. Brothers and sisters related by half-blood
Art. 894. Separate property; rights of surviving spouse
Art. 895. Separate property; rights of other ascendants
Art. 896. Separate property; rights of other collaterals
Art. 899. Nearest in degree among more remote relations
Art. 900. Degrees of relationship
Art. 901. Direct and collateral relationship
Art. 903. Arts. 903 to 933 Repealed by Acts 1981, No. 919, 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
Art. 934. Commencement of succession
Art. 935. Acquisition of ownership; seizin
Art. 936. Continuation of the possession of decedent
Art. 937. Transmission of rights of successor
Art. 938. Exercise of succession rights
Art. 939. Existence of successor
Art. 941. Declaration of unworthiness
Art. 942. Persons who may bring action
Art. 943. Reconciliation or forgiveness
Art. 945. Effects of declaration of unworthiness
Art. 946. Devolution of succession rights of successor declared unworthy
Art. 947. Right of successor to accept or renounce
Art. 948. Minor successor deemed to accept
Art. 949. Death of decedent as prerequisite to acceptance or renunciation
Art. 950. Knowledge required of successor as prerequisite to acceptance or renunciation
Art. 951. Nullity of premature acceptance or renunciation
Art. 952. Probate or annulment of testament after acceptance or renunciation of succession
Art. 953. Legacy subject to a suspensive condition
Art. 954. Retroactive effects of acceptance and renunciation
Art. 956. Claims of successor who is a creditor of the estate
Art. 957. Formal or informal acceptance
Art. 958. Informal acceptance; use or disposition of property
Art. 959. Informal acceptance; act of ownership
Art. 960. Donative renunciation deemed acceptance
Art. 961. Effect of acceptance
Art. 962. Presumption of acceptance
Art. 963. Requirement of formality
Art. 964. Accretion upon renunciation in intestate successions
Art. 965. Accretion upon renunciation in testate successions
Art. 966. Acceptance or renunciation of accretion
Art. 967. Acceptance of succession by creditor
Art. 969. Arts. 969-1074 [Blank]
Art. 1075. Arts. 1075 to 1094 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
Art. 1095. Vacant succession, definition.
Art. 1096. Intestate succession, definition.
Art. 1097. Vacant succession; administration by administrators.
Art. 1098. Arts. 1098, 1099 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
Art. 1100. Liability for unauthorized possession of vacant succession.
Art. 1101. Arts. 1101, 1102 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
Art. 1103. Repealed by Acts 1980, No. 150, 3, eff. Jan. 1, 1981.
Art. 1104. Arts. 1104 to 1112 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
Art. 1113. Arts. 1113 to 1132 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
Art. 1133. Arts. 1133 to 1137 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
Art. 1138. Arts. 1138 to 1145 Repealed by Acts 1980, No. 150, 3, eff. Jan. 1, 1981.
Art. 1146. Arts. 1146, 1147 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
Art. 1148. Interest on succession funds; liability for private use.
Art. 1149. Arts. 1149 to 1157 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
Art. 1158. Arts. 1158 to 1161 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
Art. 1162. Arts. 1162 to 1170 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
Art. 1171. Persons authorized to make sale.
Art. 1172. Arts. 1172 to 1187 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
Art. 1188. Unpaid new creditors' action against paid creditors; prescription.
Art. 1189. Arts. 1189, 1190 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
Art. 1191. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
Art. 1192. Termination of curator's duties on appearance of heirs.
Art. 1193. Arts. 1193 to 1209 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
Art. 1210. Arts. 1210 to 1219 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
Art. 1220. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
Art. 1221. Arts. 1221 to 1223 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
Art. 1224. Arts. 1224 to 1226 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
Art. 1227. Collation, definition.
Art. 1228. Collation by descendants
Art. 1229. Reasons for collation.
Art. 1230. Presumption in favor of collation.
Art. 1231. Express exclusion of collation; extra portion.
Art. 1232. Method of declaring dispensation from collation
Art. 1233. Sufficiency of declaration.
Art. 1234. Reduction of donations exceeding disposable portion; calculation of legitime.
Art. 1235. Persons entitled to demand collation
Art. 1236. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 147, 3, eff. July 1, 1990.
Art. 1237. Renouncing heir's right to donations not exceeding disposable portion.
Art. 1238. Grandchildren; collation of donations made by grandparent after death of parent
Art. 1239. Grandchildren; right to donations made by grandparent during life of parent
Art. 1240. Grandchildren; collation of donations made by grandparent to parent.
Art. 1241. Collation by great grandchildren and more remote descendants.
Art. 1242. Collation; succession of donor.
Art. 1243. Expenditures subject to collation
Art. 1244. Expenditures not subject to collation.
Art. 1246. Profits from contracts with ascendant.
Art. 1247. Share of partnership with ascendant.
Art. 1248. Advantages other than donation.
Art. 1249. Wages for services to ascendant.
Art. 1250. Immovables destroyed while in possession of donee.
Art. 1251. Methods of making collations.
Art. 1252. Collation in kind, definition.
Art. 1253. Collation by taking less, definition.
Art. 1254. Movables or immovables.
Art. 1255. Collation of immovables.
Art. 1256. Immovables collated in kind; reimbursement for improvements.
Art. 1257. Immovables collated in kind; allowance for expenses of preservation.
Art. 1258. Immovables collated in kind; removal by donee of works erected for his pleasure.
Art. 1259. Kinds of expenses made on immovable property.
Art. 1260. Deterioration and damage to immovable, liability of donee.
Art. 1261. Destruction of immovable after election to collate in kind.
Art. 1262. Partial destruction of immovable after election to collate in kind.
Art. 1263. Destruction of immovable after election to collate by taking less.
Art. 1264. Creditors' rights on immovable collated in kind.
Art. 1265. Preservation of creditor's mortgage rights after partition.
Art. 1266. Immovables in excess of disposable portion; collation in kind.
Art. 1267. Immovables in excess of disposable portion; collation by taking less.
Art. 1268. Collation in kind; retention of immovable until reimbursement of expenses.
Art. 1269. Collation by taking less; valuation of immovable.
Art. 1270. Voluntary alienation or negligent loss of immovables subject to collation.
Art. 1271. Forced alienation of immovables subject to collation.
Art. 1272. Sale by donee and subsequent destruction of immovable subject to collation.
Art. 1273. Collation by taking less; coheirs' election of collation by sale or in kind.
Art. 1274. Failure of coheirs to make timely election.
Art. 1275. Payment of collation by sale of succession effects.
Art. 1276. Payment of collation with property of succession.
Art. 1277. Payment of collation by donee where succession effects insufficient.
Art. 1278. Time and security for payment.
Art. 1279. Rights of coheirs against defaulting heir; foreclosure of special mortgage.
Art. 1280. Privilege of seizing coheirs on proceeds of mortgage sale.
Art. 1282. Purchaser's retention of immovable upon payment of collations.
Art. 1283. Collation of movables.
Art. 1284. Donation of movables as absolute transfer of rights.
Art. 1285. Collation of money.
Art. 1286. Collation of movables or money by taking less; payment in money.
Art. 1287. Collation of movables or money by taking less; payment in succession effects.
Art. 1288. Payment of collation by donee where succession effects insufficient.
Art. 1289. Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, 1.
Art. 1290. Extent and application of rules; venue of action.
Art. 1291. Venue of action where property partly in different parishes.
Art. 1292. Undivided ownership rights until partition.
Art. 1293. Partition of a succession, definition.
Art. 1294. Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, 1.
Art. 1295. Definitive and provisional partitions, definitions.
Art. 1296. Definitive and provisional partitions, distinguished.
Art. 1297. Stipulations against partition.
Art. 1298. Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, 1.
Art. 1299. Perpetual prohibition against partition by donor.
Art. 1300. Limited or conditional prohibition against partition by donor.
Art. 1301. Testator's right to prohibit partition during minority of heirs.
Art. 1302. Testamentary partition
Art. 1303. Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, 1.
Art. 1304. Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, 1.
Art. 1305. Prescription where possession is separate.
Art. 1306. Prescription where one heir possesses separately and others possess in common.
Art. 1307. Partition between heirs and legatees.
Art. 1308. Partition between owners in common.
Art. 1309. Partition between possessors in common.
Art. 1310. Nature of possession required.
Art. 1311. Action maintainable by one or more co-owners.
Art. 1312. Partition suits by tutors and curators.
Art. 1313. Partition suits by emancipated minors.
Art. 1314. Defense of suits by tutors, curators and emancipated minors.
Art. 1315. Partition suits by curators of absent heirs.
Art. 1316. Arts. 1316, 1317 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
Art. 1318. Partition by or against heir or successor of co-owner.
Art. 1319. Retrocession repealed.
Art. 1320. Ownership as basis for action of partition.
Art. 1321. Separate possession of one co-owner, partition before prescription.
Art. 1322. Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, 1.
Art. 1323. Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, 1.
Art. 1324. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
Art. 1325. Inventory within one year of partition suit.
Art. 1327. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
Art. 1328. Summary proceeding for action of partition.
Art. 1329. Parties plaintiff and defendant.
Art. 1330. Plaintiff's admission of defendant's heirship.
Art. 1331. Collation in action of partition; time for deliberating.
Art. 1332. Election to collate in kind.
Art. 1333. Election to collate by taking less; failure to elect.
Art. 1334. Appraisement of property to be collated.
Art. 1335. Matters incidental to partition; procedure.
Art. 1336. Judicial regulation of mode of partition.
Art. 1337. Partition in kind; sale of movables to pay debts.
Art. 1338. Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, 1.
Art. 1339. Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, 1.
Art. 1340. Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, 1.
Art. 1341. Terms of sale of succession effects where all heirs are absent or minors.
Art. 1342. Terms of sale of succession effects where heirs present demand sale for cash.
Art. 1343. Partition sale; coheir's right to purchase hereditary portion.
Art. 1344. Partition sale; purchase of minor's hereditary portion by tutor or curator.
Art. 1345. Reference to recorder or notary for continuation of proceedings.
Art. 1346. Amicable continuation of proceedings by heirs.
Art. 1348. Continuances of proceedings.
Art. 1349. Settlement of accounts due by heirs to succession.
Art. 1350. Items included in accounts.
Art. 1351. Deduction of donations not subject to collation.
Art. 1352. Court order as to mode of collation exhibited to officer
Art. 1353. Inclusion of property collated in kind.
Art. 1354. Inclusion of value of property collated by taking less.
Art. 1355. Formation of active mass.
Art. 1356. Composition of active mass.
Art. 1357. Deductions from active mass.
Art. 1358. Deductions, definition.
Art. 1359. Deductions allowed.
Art. 1360. Deductions in absence of collation or when collation is in kind.
Art. 1361. Deductions, when collation is by taking less.
Art. 1362. Coheir's right to take succession effects in payment of collation.
Art. 1363. Disagreement among heirs entitled to receive collation in property.
Art. 1364. Division into lots according to number of heirs or roots.
Art. 1365. Equality in formation of lots.
Art. 1366. Equalization by money when one lot more valuable than others.
Art. 1367. Formation of lots by experts.
Art. 1368. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
Art. 1369. Repealed by Acts 1962, No. 70.
Art. 1370. Subdivision among coheirs of same root.
Art. 1371. Coheirs' proportionate liability for succession debts.
Art. 1372. Observance of formalities.
Art. 1373. Provisional partitions; persons authorized to demand new partition
Art. 1374. Arts. 1374 to 1377 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 30, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
Art. 1378. Errors of form, effect.
Art. 1379. Delivery of property and title papers after partition.
Art. 1380. Subsequent discovery of property, amendment of partition.
Art. 1381. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 989, 7, eff. January 1, 1991.
Art. 1382. Partition compared to exchange.
Art. 1383. Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, 1.
Art. 1384. Reciprocal warranty against disturbance or eviction.
Art. 1385. Exclusion of warranty.
Art. 1386. Eviction through fault of coheir.
Art. 1387. Proportionate liability of coheirs.
Art. 1388. Amount of indemnity.
Art. 1389. Liability of coheirs for portion of insolvent coheir.
Art. 1390. Scope of warranty as to corporeal and incorporeal things.
Art. 1391. Warranties always implied.
Art. 1392. Warranty of solvency of debtor of rent charge, prescription.
Art. 1393. Subsequent deterioration or destruction of property.
Art. 1394. New debts or charges.
Art. 1395. Tacit mortgage abolished.
Art. 1396. Prescription of action of warranty.
Art. 1397. Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, 1.
Art. 1398. Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 689, 1.
Art. 1399. Definitive partitions involving minors, interdicts, or absent persons
Art. 1400. Provisional partitions involving minors, interdicts, or absent persons
Art. 1401. Omission of succession effects not cause for rescission.
Art. 1402. Rescission of transactions effecting partition.
Art. 1403. Rescission inadmissible after compromise.
Art. 1404. Rescission inadmissible against sale of succession rights.
Art. 1405. Sale of succession rights to coheir at risk of vendor, rescission inadmissible.
Art. 1406. Sale to coheir of immovable rights only, rescission for lesion.
Art. 1407. Facts required to obtain rescission for lesion.
Art. 1408. Termination of partition suit by defendant's tender.
Art. 1410. Rescission for fraud or violence inadmissible after alienation.
Art. 1411. Rescission inadmissible against partition regulated by father.
Art. 1412. Rescission in favor of minor effective for all parties.
Art. 1413. Prescription of action of rescission.
Art. 1414. Prescription against minors after judicial partition.
Art. 1415. Estate debts; administrative expenses
Art. 1416. Liability of universal successors to creditors
Art. 1418. Successors who are creditors, order of preference
Art. 1419. Rights of pursuit of creditor
Art. 1420. Regulation of payment of debts by testament or by agreement among successors
Art. 1421. Estate debts, charged
Art. 1422. Debts attributable to identifiable or encumbered property
Art. 1423. Decedent's debts charged ratably
Art. 1424. Administration expenses, how charged
Art. 1425. Liability of successors for contribution or reimbursement
Art. 1426. Classification of receipts and expenditures in absence of controlling dispositions
Art. 1427. Reporting and deducting as authorized by tax law
Art. 1428. Rights and obligations of usufructuary not superseded
Art. 1429. Rights and obligations of income interest in trust not superseded
Art. 1467. Methods of acquiring or disposing gratuitously
Art. 1468. Donations inter vivos; definition
Art. 1469. Donation mortis causa; definition
Art. 1470. Persons capable of giving or receiving
Art. 1471. Capacity to give, time for existence
Art. 1472. Capacity to receive, time for existence
Art. 1473. Capacity to receive conditional donation, time for existence
Art. 1474. Unborn children, capacity to receive
Art. 1475. Nullity of donation to person incapable of receiving
Art. 1476. Minors; incapacity to make donations, exceptions
Art. 1477. Capacity to donate, mental condition of donor
Art. 1478. Nullity of donation procured by fraud or duress
Art. 1479. Nullity of donation procured through undue influence
Art. 1480. Nullity due to fraud, duress, or undue influence; severability of valid provision
Art. 1481. Fiduciary appointment, termination
Art. 1482. Proof of incapacity to donate
Art. 1483. Proof of fraud, duress, or undue influence
Art. 1484. Interpretation of revocation or modification
Art. 1485. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 147, 3, eff. July 1, 1990.
Art. 1486. Arts. 1486, 1487 Repealed by Acts 1979, No. 607, 4
Art. 1488. Repealed by Acts 1978, No. 362, 1.
Art. 1489. Arts. 1489 to 1491 [Blank]
Art. 1492. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 147, 3, eff. July 1, 1990.
Art. 1493. Forced heirs; representation of forced heirs
Art. 1493.1. Children conceived through donation of gametes
Art. 1494. Forced heir entitled to legitime; exception
Art. 1495. Amount of forced portion and disposable portion
Art. 1495.1. Calculation of the legitime
Art. 1496. Permissible burdens on legitime
Art. 1497. Disposable portion in absence of forced heirs
Art. 1498. Nullity of donation inter vivos of entire patrimony
Art. 1499. Usufruct to surviving spouse
Art. 1501. Repealed by Acts 1997, No. 706, 1.
Art. 1502. Inability to satisfy legitime by usufruct or income interest in trust only
Art. 1503. Reduction of excessive donations
Art. 1504. Reduction of donations, exclusive right of forced heirs
Art. 1505. Calculation of disposable portion on mass of succession
Art. 1507. Reduction of legacies before donations inter vivos, order of reduction
Art. 1508. Reduction of donations inter vivos
Art. 1509. Insolvency of a donee
Art. 1510. Remunerative donations, extent of reduction
Art. 1511. Onerous donation, extent of reduction
Art. 1512. Retention of fruits and products of donation by donee until demand for reduction
Art. 1514. Usufruct of surviving spouse affecting legitime; security
Art. 1519. Impossible, illegal or immoral conditions.
Art. 1520. Prohibited substitutions, definitions
Art. 1521. Vulgar substitutions
Art. 1522. Separate donations of usufruct and naked ownership