Louisiana Code — 31
Browse 217 sections in division 31 of the Louisiana code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § RS 31:1. Title and form of citation
- § RS 31:2. Relation to Civil Code
- § RS 31:3. Freedom of contract and limitations thereon
- § RS 31:4. Substances to which Code applicable
- § RS 31:5. Ownership of solid minerals
- § RS 31:6. Right to search for fugitive minerals; elements of ownership of land
- § RS 31:7. When minerals reduced to possession
- § RS 31:8. Landowner's right of enjoyment for mineral extraction
- § RS 31:9. Correlative rights of owners of common reservoir or deposit
- § RS 31:10. Liability to others with interests in common reservoir or deposit
- § RS 31:11. Reasonable regard for concurrent uses of the land burdened by mineral rights
- § RS 31:12. Protection of landowner's interest in minerals
- § RS 31:13. Damages for removal of solid minerals
- § RS 31:14. Drainage of fugitive minerals; exclusion of liability; exceptions
- § RS 31:15. Right of landowner to convey, reserve, or lease right to explore and develop
- § RS 31:16. Basic mineral rights; status as real rights
- § RS 31:17. Rescission for lesion beyond moiety unavailable
- § RS 31:18. Nature of mineral rights
- § RS 31:19. Capacity to create mineral rights
- § RS 31:20. Authority to create mineral rights
- § RS 31:21. Nature of mineral servitude
- § RS 31:22. Certain rights and obligations of mineral servitude owner
- § RS 31:23. Right of servitude owner to operate; protection thereof
- § RS 31:24. Right of landowner to create mineral servitude
- § RS 31:25. Right of conditional landowner to create mineral servitude
- § RS 31:26. Usufructuary may not create mineral servitude
- § RS 31:27. Extinction of mineral servitudes
- § RS 31:28. Commencement of prescription of nonuse
- § RS 31:29. How prescription of nonuse is interrupted
- § RS 31:30. Date on which prescription interrupted and commenced anew
- § RS 31:31. Operations beyond prescriptive date; effect as interruption
- § RS 31:32. Interruption by additional operations
- § RS 31:33. Unit operations; effect as interruption of prescription
- § RS 31:34. Shut-in well; testing as interruption of prescription
- § RS 31:35. Unitization with tested shut-in well as interruption of prescription
- § RS 31:36. Production as interruption of prescription
- § RS 31:37. Unit production as interruption of prescription
- § RS 31:38. Good faith production for beneficial purpose required
- § RS 31:39. Attempt to restore or secure new production as interruption of prescription
- § RS 31:40. Interruption applicable to all minerals and modes of use
- § RS 31:41. Commencement of prescription anew following attempt to restore or secure new production
- § RS 31:42. By whom a mineral servitude may be used
- § RS 31:43. When a person is acting on behalf of servitude owner
- § RS 31:44. Adoption of operations by another
- § RS 31:45. Time within which adoption must be made
- § RS 31:46. Procedure for adoption
- § RS 31:47. Compulsory unit operations; adoption unnecessary
- § RS 31:48. Obligation of servitude owner to pay costs
- § RS 31:49. Unsuccessful operations; waiver of damages when adopted
- § RS 31:50. Adoption a matter of right
- § RS 31:51. Adoption when servitude under lease
- § RS 31:52. Right to claim production in absence of adoption
- § RS 31:53. Adoption possible only as specifically provided
- § RS 31:54. Interruption of prescription by acknowledgment; formal requirements
- § RS 31:55. Express intent required
- § RS 31:56. Contractual extension of servitude; requirements
- § RS 31:57. Extended servitude subject to rules of prescription
- § RS 31:58. Prescription not affected by minority or other disability
- § RS 31:59. Suspension of prescription by obstacle
- § RS 31:60. Suspension effective as to all minerals
- § RS 31:61. Compulsory unitization order not an obstacle; establishment of mining plan is an obstacle
- § RS 31:62. Mineral servitude indivisible except as specifically provided
- § RS 31:63. Presumption arising from separate description of tracts forming continuous body of land
- § RS 31:64. Presumption when servitudes created on noncontiguous tracts
- § RS 31:65. Division of servient estate not division of servitude
- § RS 31:66. Right of owners of contiguous tracts to create single servitude
- § RS 31:67. Right of co-owners to create single servitude in partition of land
- § RS 31:68. Effect of limitation of servitude rights to specified horizons or levels
- § RS 31:69. Effect of partial conveyances of servitude rights
- § RS 31:70. Effect of contracts for use or development of portion of servitude
- § RS 31:71. Partial unitization not a division
- § RS 31:72. Parties free to contract except as specifically limited
- § RS 31:73. Single servitude may not exist on noncontiguous tracts
- § RS 31:74. Right to fix term or shorten prescriptive period; effect of stipulation for prescriptive period greater than ten years
- § RS 31:75. Right to contract regarding rules of use
- § RS 31:76. Expectancy of extinction not an article of commerce
- § RS 31:77. Application of after-acquired title doctrine
- § RS 31:78. Prescription when after-acquired title doctrine applies; acquisition of outstanding servitude
- § RS 31:79. Prescription when after-acquired title doctrine applies; extinction of outstanding servitude
- § RS 31:80. Nature of mineral royalty
- § RS 31:81. Executive and operating rights not included
- § RS 31:82. Who may create mineral royalty
- § RS 31:83. Creation of mineral royalty by conditional owner
- § RS 31:84. Creation of mineral royalty by usufructuary
- § RS 31:85. Extinction of mineral royalties
- § RS 31:86. Commencement of prescription of nonuse
- § RS 31:87. Production as interruption of prescription; commencement of prescription anew
- § RS 31:88. Saved production sufficient to interrupt prescription
- § RS 31:89. Unit production as an interruption of prescription
- § RS 31:90. Tested shut-in well as interruption of prescription
- § RS 31:91. Unitization with tested shut-in well; effect as interruption of prescription
- § RS 31:92. Interruption applicable to all minerals
- § RS 31:93. Application of rules concerning acknowledgment and extension of prescription
- § RS 31:94. Acknowledgment by servitude owner of previously created mineral royalty
- § RS 31:95. Limited effect of acknowledgment of previously created royalty
- § RS 31:96. Previously created royalty; dependency on mineral servitude when acknowledged
- § RS 31:97. Prescription not affected by minority or other disability
- § RS 31:98. Suspension of prescription by obstacle
- § RS 31:99. Obstacle to production from servitude suspends prescription as to dependent royalty
- § RS 31:100. Suspension effective as to all minerals
- § RS 31:101. Mineral royalty indivisible except as specifically provided
- § RS 31:102. Rule regarding effect of partial conveyance; applicability to mineral royalty
- § RS 31:103. Freedom of contract; application of rules to mineral royalty
- § RS 31:104. Rules applicable to transactions involving outstanding servitudes; applicability to mineral royalties
- § RS 31:105. Nature of executive right
- § RS 31:106. Executive right a mineral right
- § RS 31:107. Interruption of prescription accruing against executive right
- § RS 31:108. Nature of executive and nonexecutive interests
- § RS 31:109. Obligation of owner of executive interest
- § RS 31:110. Lease in violation of obligation valid; right of nonexecutive to damages
- § RS 31:111. Effect of certain transactions involving executive right
- § RS 31:112. Right of nonexecutive to operate
- § RS 31:113. Executive right as appendage of another mineral right
- § RS 31:114. Nature of mineral lease; creation on noncontiguous tracts; effect of unit operations
- § RS 31:115. Requirement of term; limitation of continuation without drilling or mining operations or production
- § RS 31:116. Who may grant a mineral lease
- § RS 31:117. Granting of mineral lease by owner under conditional title
- § RS 31:118. Right of usufructuaries to lease
- § RS 31:119. Obligations of lessor
- § RS 31:120. Lessor's warranty and limitation of liability for breach thereof
- § RS 31:121. Right of lessee to lease from adverse claimants
- § RS 31:122. Lessee's obligation to act as reasonably prudent operator
- § RS 31:123. Rent and the obligation to make timely payment thereof
- § RS 31:124. Production in paying quantities required; definition
- § RS 31:125. Amount of royalties relevant to reasonableness of lessee's expectation
- § RS 31:126. Interests created out of lessee's interest dependent thereon and not prescriptible
- § RS 31:127. Lessee's right to assign or sublease
- § RS 31:128. Responsibility of assignee or sublessee to original lessor
- § RS 31:129. Assignor or sublessor not relieved of obligations or liabilities unless discharged
- § RS 31:130. Lease not divided by partial assignment or sublease
- § RS 31:131. Lessor must accept performance by assignee or sublessee
- § RS 31:132. Demands by lessor; effect on assignee or sublessee
- § RS 31:133. Termination of mineral lease
- § RS 31:134. Right to relief for violation
- § RS 31:135. Rules of default applicable except as specified
- § RS 31:136. Written notice; requirement and effect on claims for damages or dissolution of lease
- § RS 31:137. Nonpayment of royalties; notice prerequisite to judicial demand
- § RS 31:138. Required response of lessee to notice
- § RS 31:138.1. Division order; precedence of lease; penalties for failure to pay royalties due
- § RS 31:139. Effect of payment in response to notice
- § RS 31:140. Effect of nonpayment in response to notice or failure to state cause therefor
- § RS 31:141. Dissolution not a favored remedy
- § RS 31:142. Dissolution may be partial or entire
- § RS 31:143. Summary eviction not applicable
- § RS 31:144. After-acquired title clause may bind lessor and successors in title
- § RS 31:145. After-acquired title doctrine; applicability in absence of special clause
- § RS 31:146. Lessor's privilege
- § RS 31:147. Right to seize property on premises or within fifteen days of removal
- § RS 31:148. Manner of enforcement
- § RS 31:149. Mineral rights reserved from acquisitions of land by governments or agencies thereof imprescriptible; prescriptive period in acquisitions for economic development
- § RS 31:153. How mineral rights are possessed
- § RS 31:154. Possession under title as including mineral rights
- § RS 31:155. Possession without title as including mineral rights
- § RS 31:156. Interruption of possession by use or exercise of mineral rights
- § RS 31:157. Interruption of possession by acknowledgment
- § RS 31:158. Interruption of possession by judicial demand
- § RS 31:159. Mineral rights not established by acquisitive prescription
- § RS 31:160. Perfection of title by prescription as including mineral rights
- § RS 31:161. Interruption of acquisitive prescription
- § RS 31:162. Suspension of acquisitive prescription
- § RS 31:163. Acquisitive prescription; unavailability to mineral servitude owner
- § RS 31:164. Creation of mineral servitude by co-owner of land
- § RS 31:165. Creation of mineral royalty by co-owner of land
- § RS 31:166. Granting of mineral lease by co-owner of land
- § RS 31:167. Mineral right owner may not compel partition of land
- § RS 31:168. Mineral rights susceptible of undivided ownership
- § RS 31:169. Those who are not co-owners of mineral rights
- § RS 31:170. Right of co-owner of mineral servitude to create mineral royalties
- § RS 31:171. Right of co-owner of mineral lease to create dependent rights
- § RS 31:172. Mineral servitudes and royalties subject to partition
- § RS 31:173. Mineral lessee's interest subject to partition; susceptibility of dependent rights to partition
- § RS 31:174. Use by one co-owner inures to benefit of all
- § RS 31:175. Co-owner of mineral servitude may not operate independently
- § RS 31:176. Co-owner of mineral servitude may act to prevent waste or destruction or extinction of servitude
- § RS 31:177. Co-owner of mineral lease may not operate independently except to prevent waste, destruction, or termination
- § RS 31:178. When land burdened by mineral right may be judicially partitioned in kind
- § RS 31:179. Mineral right owner as party to partition of land
- § RS 31:180. Appraisal of land to be partitioned required
- § RS 31:181. Service of appraisal required
- § RS 31:182. Opposition to appraisal permitted
- § RS 31:183. Distribution of proceeds of partition sale
- § RS 31:184. Effect of failure to appraise mineral right or interest therein
- § RS 31:185. Owner of appraised mineral right entitled to participate in proceeds of sale
- § RS 31:186. Owner of right derived from all co-owners of land unaffected by licitation
- § RS 31:187. Mineral right created by party acquiring land not affected by sale
- § RS 31:188. Mineral rights not included in usufruct of land except as specifically provided
- § RS 31:189. Conventional usufruct may include enjoyment of mineral rights
- § RS 31:190. Usufructuary of land entitled to enjoyment of mines or quarries worked; exception
- § RS 31:191. When oil and gas wells and lignite operations considered open mines
- § RS 31:192. Right of usufructuary of land to grant lease
- § RS 31:193. Nature of usufruct of a mineral right
- § RS 31:194. Usufructuary not obligated to account to naked owner
- § RS 31:195. Right of naked owner of land to enjoyment of minerals
- § RS 31:196. Obligations of naked owner arising from enjoyment of rights in minerals
- § RS 31:203. Mineral rights susceptible of mortgage; effect of mortgage
- § RS 31:204. Security interest in minerals and proceeds thereof
- § RS 31:205. When transfer, assignment, or termination of mortgage or pledge effective against parties dealing with mortgagee or pledgee
- § RS 31:206. Obligation of owner of expired mineral right to furnish recordable act evidencing extinction or expiration of right; mineral lease
- § RS 31:207. Effect of failure to furnish act evidencing extinction or expiration of right; mineral lease
- § RS 31:208. Effect of good faith dispute as to extinction or expiration of right
- § RS 31:209. Applicability to demand for dissolution of mineral lease
- § RS 31:210. When purchaser protected in paying party in interest under lease for minerals produced
- § RS 31:210.1. Interest on purchase payment of production
- § RS 31:210.2. Declaration of interest; when third party purchasers of oil may withhold payment
- § RS 31:211. Availability of mandamus for nonpayment of sums due for production
- § RS 31:212. Right to attorney's fee incurred in securing writ
- § RS 31:212.1. Sales relative to minerals after they are severed are subject to the laws of registry
- § RS 31:212.21. Nonpayment of production payment or royalties; notice prerequisite to judicial demand
- § RS 31:212.22. Required response of obligor to notice
- § RS 31:212.23. Effects of payment or nonpayment with or without stating reasonable cause therefor; division order
- § RS 31:212.31. Payment information to interest owners
- § RS 31:212.32. Accumulation of proceeds from production
- § RS 31:213. Definitions
- § RS 31:214. Applicability of Code to existing rights
- § RS 31:215. Contracts; partnership status
- § RS 31:216. Filing
- § RS 31:217. Declaration in lieu of agreement