Louisiana Code — 10
Browse 454 sections in division 10 of the Louisiana code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § CC 2025. Definition; simulation and counterletter
- § CC 2549. Obligations of the buyer
- § RS 10:1-101. Short titles
- § RS 10:1-102. Scope of Chapter
- § RS 10:1-103. Construction of Uniform Commercial Code to promote its purposes and policies; applicability of supplemental principles of law
- § RS 10:1-104. Construction against implied repeal
- § RS 10:1-108. Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act
- § RS 10:1-201. General definitions
- § RS 10:1-202. Notice; knowledge
- § RS 10:1-203. Lease distinguished from security interest
- § RS 10:1-204. Value
- § RS 10:1-205. Reasonable time; seasonableness
- § RS 10:1-206. Presumptions
- § RS 10:1-301. Territorial applicability; parties' power to choose applicable law
- § RS 10:1-302. Variation by agreement
- § RS 10:1-303. Course of performance, course of dealing, and usage of trade
- § RS 10:1-304. Obligation of good faith
- § RS 10:1-305. Remedies to be liberally administered
- § RS 10:1-307. Prima facie evidence by third-party documents
- § RS 10:1-308. Performance or acceptance under reservation of rights
- § RS 10:1-309. Option to accelerate at will
- § RS 10:1-310. Subordinated obligations
- § RS 10:3-101. Short title
- § RS 10:3-102. Subject matter
- § RS 10:3-103. Definitions
- § RS 10:3-104. Negotiable instrument
- § RS 10:3-105. Issue of instrument
- § RS 10:3-106. Unconditional promise or order
- § RS 10:3-107. Instrument payable in foreign money
- § RS 10:3-108. Payable on demand or at definite time
- § RS 10:3-109. Payable to bearer or to order
- § RS 10:3-110. Identification of person to whom instrument is payable
- § RS 10:3-111. Place of payment
- § RS 10:3-112. Interest
- § RS 10:3-113. Date of instrument
- § RS 10:3-114. Contradictory terms of instrument
- § RS 10:3-115. Incomplete instrument
- § RS 10:3-116. Joint and several liability; contribution
- § RS 10:3-117. Other agreements affecting instrument
- § RS 10:3-118. Prescription
- § RS 10:3-201. Negotiation
- § RS 10:3-202. Negotiation subject to rescission
- § RS 10:3-203. Transfer of instrument; rights acquired by transfer
- § RS 10:3-204. Indorsement
- § RS 10:3-205. Special indorsement; blank indorsement; anomalous indorsement
- § RS 10:3-206. Restrictive indorsement
- § RS 10:3-207. Reacquisition
- § RS 10:3-301. Person entitled to enforce instrument
- § RS 10:3-302. Holder in due course
- § RS 10:3-303. Value and consideration
- § RS 10:3-304. Overdue instrument
- § RS 10:3-305. Defenses and claims in recoupment
- § RS 10:3-306. Claims to an instrument
- § RS 10:3-307. Notice of breach of fiduciary duty
- § RS 10:3-308. Proof of signatures and status as holder in due course
- § RS 10:3-309. Enforcement of lost, destroyed, or stolen instrument
- § RS 10:3-310. Effect of instrument on obligation for which taken
- § RS 10:3-311. Accord and satisfaction by use of instrument
- § RS 10:3-312. Lost, destroyed, or stolen cashier's check, teller's check, certified check, or money order
- § RS 10:3-401. Signature necessary for liability on instrument
- § RS 10:3-402. Signature by representative
- § RS 10:3-403. Unauthorized signature
- § RS 10:3-404. Impostors; fictitious payees
- § RS 10:3-405. Employer's responsibility for fraudulent indorsement by employee
- § RS 10:3-406. Negligence contributing to forged signature or alteration of instrument
- § RS 10:3-407. Alteration
- § RS 10:3-408. Drawee not liable on unaccepted draft
- § RS 10:3-409. Acceptance of draft; certified check
- § RS 10:3-410. Acceptance varying draft
- § RS 10:3-411. Refusal to pay cashier's checks, teller's checks, and certified checks
- § RS 10:3-412. Obligation of issuer of note or cashier's check
- § RS 10:3-413. Obligation of acceptor
- § RS 10:3-414. Obligation of drawer
- § RS 10:3-415. Obligation of indorser
- § RS 10:3-416. Transfer warranties
- § RS 10:3-417. Presentment warranties
- § RS 10:3-418. Payment or acceptance by mistake
- § RS 10:3-419. Instruments signed for accommodation
- § RS 10:3-420. Conversion of instrument
- § RS 10:3-501. Presentment
- § RS 10:3-502. Dishonor
- § RS 10:3-503. Notice of dishonor
- § RS 10:3-504. Excused presentment and notice of dishonor
- § RS 10:3-505. Evidence of dishonor
- § RS 10:3-601. Discharge and effect of discharge
- § RS 10:3-602. Payment
- § RS 10:3-603. Tender of payment
- § RS 10:3-604. Discharge by cancellation or renunciation
- § RS 10:4-101. Short title
- § RS 10:4-102. Applicability
- § RS 10:4-103. Variation by agreement; measure of damages; action constituting ordinary care
- § RS 10:4-104. Definitions and index of definitions
- § RS 10:4-105. "Bank"; "depositary bank"; "payor bank"; "intermediary bank"; "collecting bank"; "presenting bank"
- § RS 10:4-106. Payable through or payable at bank; collecting bank
- § RS 10:4-107. Separate office of bank
- § RS 10:4-108. Time of receipt of items
- § RS 10:4-109. Delays
- § RS 10:4-110. Electronic presentment
- § RS 10:4-111. Prescription
- § RS 10:4-201. Status of collecting bank as agent and provisional status of credits; applicability of Chapter; item indorsed "pay any bank"
- § RS 10:4-202. Responsibility for collection or return; when action timely
- § RS 10:4-203. Effect of instructions
- § RS 10:4-204. Methods of sending and presenting; sending directly to payor bank
- § RS 10:4-205. Depositary bank holder of unindorsed item
- § RS 10:4-206. Transfer between banks
- § RS 10:4-207. Transfer warranties
- § RS 10:4-208. Presentment warranties
- § RS 10:4-209. Encoding and retention warranties
- § RS 10:4-210. Security interest of collecting bank in items, accompanying documents and proceeds
- § RS 10:4-211. When bank gives value for purposes of holder in due course
- § RS 10:4-212. Presentment by notice of item not payable by, through, or at a bank; liability of drawer or indorser
- § RS 10:4-213. Medium and time of settlement by bank
- § RS 10:4-214. Right of charge-back or refund; liability of collecting bank; return of item
- § RS 10:4-215. Final payment of item by payor bank; when provisional debits and credits become final; when certain credits become available for withdrawal
- § RS 10:4-216. Insolvency and preference
- § RS 10:4-301. Deferred posting; recovery of payment by return of items; time of dishonor; return of items by payor bank
- § RS 10:4-302. Payor bank's responsibility for late return of item
- § RS 10:4-303. When items subject to notice, stop-payment order, legal process, or setoff; order in which items may be charged or certified
- § RS 10:4-401. When bank may charge customer's account
- § RS 10:4-402. Bank's liability to customer for wrongful dishonor; time of determining insufficiency of account
- § RS 10:4-403. Customer's right to stop payment; burden of proof of loss
- § RS 10:4-404. Bank not obliged to pay check more than six months old
- § RS 10:4-405. Death or interdiction of customer
- § RS 10:4-406. Customer's duty to discover and report unauthorized signature or alteration
- § RS 10:4-407. Payor bank's right to subrogation on improper payment
- § RS 10:4-501. Handling of documentary drafts; duty to send for presentment and to notify customer of dishonor
- § RS 10:4-502. Presentment of "on arrival" drafts
- § RS 10:4-503. Responsibility of presenting bank for documents and goods; report of reasons for dishonor; referee in case of need
- § RS 10:4-504. Privilege of presenting bank to deal with goods; security interest for expenses
- § RS 10:4A-101. Short Title
- § RS 10:4A-102. Subject Matter
- § RS 10:4A-103. Payment Order - Definitions
- § RS 10:4A-104. Funds Transfer - Definitions
- § RS 10:4A-105. Other definitions
- § RS 10:4A-106. Time payment order is received
- § RS 10:4A-107. Federal reserve regulations and operating circulars
- § RS 10:4A-108. Relationship to the federal Electronic Fund Transfer Act
- § RS 10:4A-201. Security procedure
- § RS 10:4A-202. Authorized and verified payment orders
- § RS 10:4A-203. Unenforceability of certain verified payment orders
- § RS 10:4A-204. Refund of payment and duty of customer to report with respect to unauthorized payment order
- § RS 10:4A-205. Erroneous payment orders
- § RS 10:4A-206. Transmission of payment order through funds-transfer or other communication
- § RS 10:4A-207. Misdescription of beneficiary
- § RS 10:4A-208. Misdescription of intermediary bank or beneficiary's bank
- § RS 10:4A-209. Acceptance of payment order
- § RS 10:4A-210. Rejection of payment order
- § RS 10:4A-211. Cancellation and amendment of payment order
- § RS 10:4A-212. Liability and duty of receiving bank regarding unaccepted payment order
- § RS 10:4A-301. Execution and execution date
- § RS 10:4A-302. Obligations of receiving bank in execution of payment order
- § RS 10:4A-303. Erroneous execution of payment order
- § RS 10:4A-304. Duty of sender to report erroneously executed payment order
- § RS 10:4A-305. Liability for late or improper execution or failure to execute payment order
- § RS 10:4A-401. Payment date
- § RS 10:4A-402. Obligation of sender to pay receiving bank
- § RS 10:4A-403. Payment by sender to receiving bank
- § RS 10:4A-404. Obligation of beneficiary's bank to pay and give notice to beneficiary
- § RS 10:4A-405. Payment by beneficiary's bank to beneficiary
- § RS 10:4A-406. Payment by originator to beneficiary; discharge of underlying obligation
- § RS 10:4A-501. Variation by agreement and effect of funds-transfer system rule
- § RS 10:4A-502. Creditor process served on receiving bank; setoff by beneficiary's bank
- § RS 10:4A-503. Injunction or restraining order with respect to funds transfer
- § RS 10:4A-504. Order in which items and payment orders may be charged to account; order of withdrawals from account
- § RS 10:4A-505. Preclusion of objection to debit of customer's account
- § RS 10:4A-506. Rate of interest
- § RS 10:4A-507. Choice of law
- § RS 10:5-101. Short title
- § RS 10:5-102. Definitions
- § RS 10:5-103. Scope
- § RS 10:5-104. Formal requirements
- § RS 10:5-105. Consideration
- § RS 10:5-106. Issuance, amendment, cancellation, and duration
- § RS 10:5-107. Confirmor, nominated person, and adviser
- § RS 10:5-108. Issuer's rights and obligations
- § RS 10:5-109. Fraud and forgery
- § RS 10:5-110. Warranties
- § RS 10:5-111. Remedies
- § RS 10:5-112. Transfer of letter of credit
- § RS 10:5-113. Transfer by operation of law
- § RS 10:5-114. Assignment of proceeds
- § RS 10:5-115. Statute of limitations
- § RS 10:5-116. Choice of law and forum
- § RS 10:5-117. Subrogation of issuer, applicant, and nominated person
- § RS 10:5-118. Security interest of issuer or nominated person
- § RS 10:7-101. Short title
- § RS 10:7-102. Definitions and index of definitions
- § RS 10:7-103. Relation of Chapter to treaty or statute
- § RS 10:7-104. Negotiable and nonnegotiable document of title
- § RS 10:7-105. Reissuance in alternative medium
- § RS 10:7-106. Control of electronic document of title
- § RS 10:7-201. Person that may issue a warehouse receipt; storage under bond
- § RS 10:7-202. Form of warehouse receipt; effect of omission
- § RS 10:7-203. Liability for nonreceipt or misdescription
- § RS 10:7-204. Duty of care; contractual limitation of warehouse's liability
- § RS 10:7-205. Title under warehouse receipt defeated in certain cases
- § RS 10:7-206. Termination of storage at warehouse's option
- § RS 10:7-207. Goods must be kept separate; fungible goods
- § RS 10:7-208. Altered warehouse receipts
- § RS 10:7-209. Lien of warehouse
- § RS 10:7-210. Enforcement of warehouse's lien
- § RS 10:7-301. Liability for nonreceipt or misdirection; "said to contain"; "shipper's weight, load, and count"; improper handling
- § RS 10:7-302. Through bills of lading and similar documents of title
- § RS 10:7-303. Diversion; reconsignment; change of instructions
- § RS 10:7-304. Tangible bills of lading in a set
- § RS 10:7-305. Destination bills
- § RS 10:7-306. Altered bills of lading
- § RS 10:7-307. Lien of carrier
- § RS 10:7-308. Enforcement of carrier's lien
- § RS 10:7-309. Duty of care; contractual limitation of carrier's liability
- § RS 10:7-401. Irregularities in issue of receipt or bill or conduct of issuer
- § RS 10:7-402. Duplicate document of title; overissue
- § RS 10:7-403. Obligation of bailee to deliver; excuse
- § RS 10:7-404. No liability for good faith delivery pursuant to document of title
- § RS 10:7-501. Form of negotiation and requirements of due negotiation
- § RS 10:7-502. Rights acquired by due negotiation
- § RS 10:7-503. Document of title to goods defeated in certain cases
- § RS 10:7-504. Rights acquired in absence of due negotiation; effect of diversion; stoppage of delivery
- § RS 10:7-505. Endorser not a guarantor for other parties
- § RS 10:7-506. Delivery without endorsements; right to compel endorsement
- § RS 10:7-507. Warranties on negotiation or delivery of document of title
- § RS 10:7-508. Warranties of collecting bank as to documents of title
- § RS 10:7-509. Adequate compliance with commercial contract
- § RS 10:7-601. Lost, stolen, or destroyed documents of title
- § RS 10:7-602. Judicial process against goods covered by negotiable document of title
- § RS 10:7-603. Conflicting claims; concursus
- § RS 10:7-604. Fraud through the use of a document of title
- § RS 10:8-101. Short title
- § RS 10:8-102. Definitions and index of definitions
- § RS 10:8-103. Rules for determining whether certain obligations and interests are securities or financial assets
- § RS 10:8-104. Acquisition of security or financial asset or interest therein
- § RS 10:8-105. Notice of adverse claim
- § RS 10:8-106. Control
- § RS 10:8-107. Whether indorsement, instruction, or entitlement order is effective
- § RS 10:8-108. Warranties in direct holding
- § RS 10:8-109. Warranties in indirect holding
- § RS 10:8-110. Applicability; choice of law
- § RS 10:8-111. Clearing corporation rules
- § RS 10:8-112. Creditor's legal process
- § RS 10:8-113. Statute of frauds inapplicable
- § RS 10:8-114. Evidentiary rules concerning certificated securities
- § RS 10:8-115. Securities intermediary and others not liable to adverse claimant
- § RS 10:8-116. Securities intermediary as purchaser for value
- § RS 10:8-201. Issuer
- § RS 10:8-202. Issuer's responsibility and defenses; notice of defect or defense
- § RS 10:8-203. Staleness as notice of defect or defense
- § RS 10:8-204. Effect of issuer's restriction on transfer
- § RS 10:8-205. Effect of unauthorized signature on security certificate
- § RS 10:8-206. Completion or alteration of security certificate
- § RS 10:8-207. Rights and duties of issuer with respect to registered owners
- § RS 10:8-208. Effect of signature of authenticating trustee, registrar, or transfer agent
- § RS 10:8-209. Issuer's lien
- § RS 10:8-210. Overissue
- § RS 10:8-301. Delivery
- § RS 10:8-302. Rights of purchaser
- § RS 10:8-303. Protected purchaser
- § RS 10:8-304. Indorsement
- § RS 10:8-305. Instruction
- § RS 10:8-306. Effect of guaranteeing signature, indorsement, or instruction
- § RS 10:8-307. Purchaser's right to requisites for registration of transfer
- § RS 10:8-401. Duty of issuer to register transfer
- § RS 10:8-402. Assurance that indorsement or instruction is effective
- § RS 10:8-403. Demand that issuer not register transfer
- § RS 10:8-404. Wrongful registration
- § RS 10:8-405. Replacement of lost, destroyed, or wrongfully taken security certificate
- § RS 10:8-406. Obligation to notify issuer of lost, destroyed, or wrongfully taken security certificate
- § RS 10:8-407. Authenticating trustee, transfer agent, and registrar
- § RS 10:8-501. Securities account; acquisition of security entitlement from securities intermediary
- § RS 10:8-502. Assertion of adverse claim against entitlement holder
- § RS 10:8-503. Property interest of entitlement holder in financial asset held by securities intermediary
- § RS 10:8-504. Duty of securities intermediary to maintain financial asset
- § RS 10:8-505. Duty of securities intermediary with respect to payments and distributions
- § RS 10:8-506. Duty of securities intermediary to exercise rights as directed by entitlement holder
- § RS 10:8-507. Duty of securities intermediary to comply with entitlement order
- § RS 10:8-508. Duty of securities intermediary to change entitlement holder's position to other form of security holding
- § RS 10:8-509. Specification of duties of securities intermediary by other statute or regulation; manner of performance of duties of securities intermediary and exercise of rights of entitlement holder
- § RS 10:8-510. Rights of purchaser of security entitlement from entitlement holder
- § RS 10:8-511. Priority among security interests and entitlement holders
- § RS 10:9-101. Short title
- § RS 10:9-102. Definitions and index of definitions
- § RS 10:9-103. Purchase-money security interest; application of payments; burden of establishing purchase-money security interest
- § RS 10:9-104. Control of deposit account
- § RS 10:9-105. Control of electronic copy of record evidencing chattel paper
- § RS 10:9-106. Control of investment property
- § RS 10:9-107. Control of letter-of-credit right
- § RS 10:9-107.1. 1. Control over life insurance policy
- § RS 10:9-107.2. 2. Control conditioned on default
- § RS 10:9-107.3. 3. Control of controllable electronic record, controllable account, or controllable payment intangible
- § RS 10:9-107.4. 4. No requirement to acknowledge or confirm; no duties
- § RS 10:9-108. Sufficiency of description
- § RS 10:9-109. Scope
- § RS 10:9-201. General effectiveness of security agreement
- § RS 10:9-202. Title to collateral immaterial
- § RS 10:9-203. Attachment and enforceability of security interest; proceeds; supporting obligations; formal requisites
- § RS 10:9-204. After-acquired property; future advances
- § RS 10:9-205. Use or disposition of collateral permissible
- § RS 10:9-206. Security interest arising in purchase or delivery of financial asset
- § RS 10:9-207. Rights and duties of secured party having possession or control of collateral
- § RS 10:9-208. Additional duties of secured party having control of collateral
- § RS 10:9-209. Duties of secured party if account debtor has been notified of assignment