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La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5554 No requirement of registry of transfer, assignment, pledge, or security interest in or of the written obligation, collateral mortgage, or vendor's privilege
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§5554. No requirement of registry of transfer, assignment, pledge, or security interest in or of the written obligation, collateral mortgage, or vendor's privilege There is no requirement that there be registry of: (1) Any evidence of pledge of the written obligation secured by a…
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5555 Executory process in the case of notes or other obligations not paraphed for identification with the mortgage
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§5555. Executory process in the case of notes or other obligations not paraphed for identification with the mortgage A. In accordance with Code of Civil Procedure Article 2636(8), there is no requirement that a note or other written obligation secured by a mortgage be paraphed fo…
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5557 Obligation to grant release of mortgage
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§5557. Obligation to grant release of mortgage A. The provisions of this Section shall apply only to mortgages recorded prior to January 1, 2012. B. Upon extinction of the mortgage, the mortgagor or his successor may request the mortgagee to provide a written act of release direc…
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:56 Purpose
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§56. Purpose The purpose of this Part is all of the following: (1) To clarify and reconcile the meaning of sex, male, female, and related terms in state law. (2) To provide protections for women and girls against sexual assault, harassment, and violence in correctional facilities…
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5601 Crops; injury, destruction, or loss of profits; non-delivery or non-acceptance
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§5601. Crops; injury, destruction, or loss of profits; non-delivery or non-acceptance The following actions are prescribed by one year: (1) That for damages for the injury to or destruction of or the profits lost on a crop, in whole or in part, reckoning from the day the act occu…
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5602 Contracts for work and labor; New Orleans
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§5602. Contracts for work and labor; New Orleans The following actions are prescribed by one year: (1) Those for the enforcement of any contract entered into with the municipal corporation of New Orleans for work and labor to be performed, reckoning from the expiration of the tim…
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5603 Public ways; damages due to grading
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§5603. Public ways; damages due to grading Actions for the recovery of damages to person or property by reason of the grading of any public way by any municipality are prescribed by one year, reckoning from the time the damage was sustained.
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5604 Actions for professional accounting liability
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§5604. Actions for professional accounting liability A. No action for damages against any accountant duly licensed under the laws of this state, or any firm as defined in R.S. 37:71, whether based upon tort, or breach of contract, or otherwise, arising out of an engagement to pro…
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5605 Actions for legal malpractice
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§5605. Actions for legal malpractice A. No action for damages against any attorney at law duly admitted to practice in this state, any partnership of such attorneys at law, or any professional corporation, company, organization, association, enterprise, or other commercial busine…
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5605.1 Theft of client funds; prescription
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§5605.1. Theft of client funds; prescription A. Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 9:5605, prescription of a claim of theft or misappropriation of funds of a client by the client's attorney shall be interrupted by the filing of a complaint with the Office of Disciplinary Coun…
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5605.2 Collectability rule
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§5605.2. Collectability rule In any action for damages by a client against an attorney, the client's recovery against the attorney shall be limited to the amount of damages which the attorney shows by a preponderance of the evidence would have been the maximum amount of damages t…
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5606 Actions for professional insurance agent liability
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§5606. Actions for professional insurance agent liability A. No action for damages against any insurance agent, broker, solicitor, or other similar licensee under this state, whether based upon tort, or breach of contract, or otherwise, arising out of an engagement to provide ins…
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5607 Actions against a professional engineer, surveyor, professional interior designer,
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§5607. Actions against a professional engineer, surveyor, professional interior designer, architect, real estate developer; peremptive periods A. No action for damages against any professional engineer, surveyor, engineer intern, surveyor intern, or licensee as defined in R.S. 37…
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5608 Actions against home inspectors
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§5608. Actions against home inspectors A. No action for damages against any home inspector duly licensed under the laws of this state or against any home inspection company, whether based in tort, breach of contract, or otherwise, arising out of a home inspection or report perfor…
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5609 Contracts to buy or sell; peremption of the effect of recordation; prescription for actions
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§5609. Contracts to buy or sell; peremption of the effect of recordation; prescription for actions A. The effect of recording in the conveyance records of a contract to buy or sell an immovable shall cease one year from the date of its recordation, unless prior thereto one of the…
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5610 Actions against real estate appraisers, appraisal management companies, and real
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§5610. Actions against real estate appraisers, appraisal management companies, and real estate appraisal companies; prescriptive and peremptive periods A. No action for damages against any real estate appraiser or appraisal management company duly licensed under the laws of this …
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5621 Acts of succession representative
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§5621. Acts of succession representative Actions against any person who has served as curator of a vacant succession or as administrator, testamentary executor, or dative testamentary executor of a succession in this state, or against the surety on his bond, arising out of any ac…
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5622 Informalities in auction sales, two and five year prescription
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§5622. Informalities in auction sales, two and five year prescription. All informalities of legal procedure connected with or growing out of any sale at public auction or at private sale of real or personal property made by any sheriff of the Parishes of this State, licensed auct…
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5623 Acts of sheriff; overpayments
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§5623. Acts of sheriff; overpayments The following actions against sheriffs and their sureties are prescribed by two years, reckoning from the day of the act of omission or commission: (1) Those for the recovery of damages arising out of any act of misfeasance or nonfeasance by t…
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5624 Actions for damages to property damaged for public purposes
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§5624. Actions for damages to property damaged for public purposes When private property is damaged for public purposes any and all actions for such damages are prescribed by the prescription of two years, which shall begin to run after the completion and acceptance of the public…
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5625 Violation of zoning restriction, building restriction, or subdivision regulation
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§5625. Violation of zoning restriction, building restriction, or subdivision regulation A.(1) All actions civil or criminal, created by statute, ordinance, or otherwise, except those actions created for the purpose of amortization of nonconforming signs and billboards enacted in …
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5626 Actions and claims for lands and improvements used or destroyed for levees or levee drainage purposes
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§5626. Actions and claims for lands and improvements used or destroyed for levees or levee drainage purposes Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, when lands are appropriated for levees or levee drainage purposes all claims and actions for payment for lands and improveme…
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5627 Building encroaching on public way
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§5627. Building encroaching on public way A. A building that merely encroaches on a public way without preventing its use and which cannot be removed without causing substantial damage to its owner shall be permitted to remain. If it is demolished from any cause the owner shall b…
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5628 Actions for medical malpractice
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§5628. Actions for medical malpractice A. No action for damages for injury or death against any physician, chiropractor, nurse, licensed midwife practitioner, dentist, psychologist, optometrist, hospital or nursing home duly licensed under the laws of this state, or community blo…
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5628.1 Actions for liability from the use of blood or tissue
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§5628.1. Actions for liability from the use of blood or tissue A. No action for damages against any healthcare provider as defined in this Section, whether based upon negligence, products liability, strict liability, tort, breach of contract, or otherwise, arising out of the use …
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5629 Uninsured motorist insurance claims
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§5629. Uninsured motorist insurance claims Actions for the recovery of damages sustained in motor vehicle accidents brought pursuant to uninsured motorist provisions in motor vehicle insurance policies are prescribed by two years reckoning from the date of the accident in which t…
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5630 Actions by unrecognized successor against third persons
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§5630. Actions by unrecognized successor against third persons A. An action by a person who is a successor of a deceased person, and who has not been recognized as such in the judgment of possession rendered by a court of competent jurisdiction, to assert an interest in an immova…
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5631 Minors, interdicts, and posthumous children
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§5631. Minors, interdicts, and posthumous children The prescription herein provided shall accrue against all persons including minors, interdicts, and posthumous children. Added by Acts 1981, No. 721, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5632 Actions against succession representatives, tutors, and curators; defect in alienations,
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§5632. Actions against succession representatives, tutors, and curators; defect in alienations, encumbrances, or leases A. When the legal procedure is defective or does not comply with the requisites of law in the alienation, encumbrance, or lease of movable or immovable property…
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5633 Blighted property; acquisitive prescription
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§5633. Blighted property; acquisitive prescription A. Ownership of an immovable may be acquired by the prescription of three years without the need of just title or possession in good faith. The requirements for the acquisitive prescription of three years are as follows: (1) The …
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5633.1 Blighted property in certain municipalities; acquisitive prescription
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§5633.1. Blighted property in certain municipalities; acquisitive prescription A. In an incorporated municipality that is under a home rule charter, having a population between six thousand six hundred fifty and seven thousand six hundred fifty, according to the latest federal de…
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5641 Sale under attachment against foreign corporation
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§5641. Sale under attachment against foreign corporation Any action to set aside a public sale of land made under attachment proceedings against a foreign corporation as record title holder, instituted in the court of the parish where the land is situated and maintained by judgme…
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5642 Sheriffs' deeds
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§5642. Sheriffs' deeds Actions to set aside sheriffs' deeds are prescribed by five years, reckoning from their date. This prescription applies only where the owner knew that the sheriff was proceeding to sell his property and where the purchaser or those claiming under him went i…
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5643 Right to probate testament
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§5643. Right to probate testament The right to probate a purported testament in a succession proceeding shall prescribe five years after the date of the judicial opening of the succession of the deceased. Added by Acts 1960, No. 31, §6, eff. Jan. 1, 1961. Amended by Acts 1981, No…
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5644 Prescription of actions involving asbestos abatement
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§5644. Prescription of actions involving asbestos abatement A. Asbestos abatement shall include any of the following: (1) The removal of asbestos or materials containing asbestos from any building. (2) Any other measures taken to detect, correct, or ameliorate any problem related…
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5645 Prescription of actions involving contract to sell or transfer immovable property
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§5645. Prescription of actions involving contract to sell or transfer immovable property An action for the breach or other failure to perform a contract for the sale, exchange, or other transfer of an immovable is prescribed in five years. Acts 2006, No. 701, §1, eff. Aug. 15, 20…
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5646 Sale of immovable property by domestic or foreign corporation or unincorporated
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§5646. Sale of immovable property by domestic or foreign corporation or unincorporated association A.(1) Any action to set aside a sale, transfer, lease, mortgage, encumbrance, or any other document by any legal entity or unincorporated association affecting any immovable propert…
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5647 Power of attorney; action to set aside under certain conditions
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§5647. Power of attorney; action to set aside under certain conditions A. Any action to set aside a document or instrument on the ground that the party executing the document or instrument under authority of a power of attorney was without authority to do so, or that the power of…
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5661 Land patents
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§5661. Land patents Actions, including those by the State of Louisiana, to annul any patent issued by the state, duly signed by the governor and the register of the state land office, and of record in the state land office, are prescribed by six years, reckoning from the day of t…
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5685 Prescription against the state
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§5685. Prescription against the state A. All judgments in favor of the state against all persons and the effect of recordation thereof shall be prescribed by the lapse of ten years from the date of the signing of the judgment if rendered by a trial court or from its rendition if …
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:57 Legislative findings
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§57. Legislative findings The legislature finds and declares that: (1) "Physical differences between men and women, however, are enduring: '[T]he two sexes are not fungible; a community made up exclusively of one [sex] is different from a community composed of both.'" United Stat…
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5701 Debts due charitable or educational institution or fund
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§5701. Debts due charitable or educational institution or fund A. For purposes of this Section "writing" shall have the same meaning as provided in Code of Evidence Article 1001. B. Except as provided in Subsection C of this Section, actions for debts including student loans, sti…
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:571 Actions between parent, person having parental authority, or tutor and child
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§571. Actions between parent, person having parental authority, or tutor and child A. No parent may sue his unemancipated minor child. No other person having parental authority over the minor may sue him. B. An unemancipated minor may not sue any person having parental authority …
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:572 Person having parental authority; acts that may be performed without court approval
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§572. Person having parental authority; acts that may be performed without court approval A person having parental authority may perform the following acts without court approval: (1) Alienate any movable property of the minor if the sum to be received does not exceed fifteen tho…
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:575 Abused parent or grandparent; domestic abuse assistance
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§575. Abused parent or grandparent; domestic abuse assistance A parent or grandparent who is being abused by an adult child or adult grandchild may file a petition in the district court seeking protection pursuant to the laws governing domestic abuse assistance, R.S. 46:2131 et s…
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:58 Definitions
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§58. Definitions For purposes of this Part: (1) "Boy" means a human male who is a minor. (2) "Changing room" means a room or area in which a person may be in a state of undress in the presence of others, including a locker room or shower room. (3) "Correctional facilities" means …
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5801 Involuntary dismissal; failure to timely request service of citation
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§5801. Involuntary dismissal; failure to timely request service of citation Notwithstanding the provisions of Civil Code Article 2324(C), interruption is considered never to have occurred as to a person named as a defendant who is dismissed from a suit because service of citation…
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5802 Fugitive from justice
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§5802. Fugitive from justice Prescription does not run against the action of a citizen of this state against a former citizen or resident of this state who is a fugitive from justice and is without a representative in this state upon whom judicial process may be served. Prescript…
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5803 Property adjudicated to state for non-payment of taxes
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§5803. Property adjudicated to state for non-payment of taxes In all cases where immovable property has been, or may be, adjudicated or forfeited to the state for non-payment of taxes and has been or is subsequently redeemed by a purchaser in good faith and by just title, or by t…
La. Rev. Stat. § 9:5804 Immovable property of municipal corporation
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§5804. Immovable property of municipal corporation Any municipal corporation owning alienable immovable property may prevent the running of prescription acquirendi causa against it in favor of any third possessor, by recording a notice with the clerk of court of the parish where …
