Louisiana Code — code.louisiana.civil.code
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- § CC 2. Legislation
- § CC 3. Custom
- § CC 4. Absence of legislation or custom
- § CC 5. Ignorance of law
- § CC 6. Retroactivity of laws
- § CC 7. Laws for the preservation of the public interest
- § CC 8. Repeal of laws
- § CC 10. Language susceptible of different meanings
- § CC 11. Meaning of words
- § CC 12. Ambiguous words
- § CC 13. Laws on the same subject matter
- § CC 15. Use of number
- § CC 24. Kinds of persons
- § CC 25. Commencement and end of natural personality
- § CC 26. Unborn child
- § CC 27. General legal capacity
- § CC 28. Capacity to make juridical acts
- § CC 29. Age of majority
- § CC 30. Presumption of death
- § CC 31. Existence of a person at time of accrual of a right
- § CC 38. Domicile
- § CC 39. Domicile and residence
- § CC 40. Domicile of spouses
- § CC 41. Domicile of unemancipated minor
- § CC 42. Domicile of interdict
- § CC 43. Domicile of person under continued or permanent tutorship
- § CC 44. Change of domicile
- § CC 45. Proof of intent to change domicile
- § CC 46. Person holding temporary position
- § CC 48. Powers, rights, and duties of curator
- § CC 49. Legal capacity of absent person
- § CC 50. Termination of curatorship of right
- § CC 51. Termination by judgment of declaration of death
- § CC 52. Effects of termination of curatorship
- § CC 53. Validity of acts of curator after termination of the curatorship
- § CC 55. Declaration of death; effect
- § CC 56. New evidence as to time of death
- § CC 57. Reappearance of absent person; recovery of his property
- § CC 58. Succession rights of person presumed dead or declared dead
- § CC 59. Reappearance of absent person; recovery of his inheritance
- § CC 87. Contract of marriage; requirements
- § CC 88. Impediment of existing marriage
- § CC 89. Impediment of same sex
- § CC 90. Impediments of relationship
- § CC 90.1. Impediment of age
- § CC 91. Marriage ceremony required
- § CC 92. Marriage by procuration prohibited
- § CC 93. Vices of consent
- § CC 95. Relatively null marriage; confirmation
- § CC 96. Civil effects of absolutely null marriage; putative marriage
- § CC 97. Civil effects of relatively null marriage
- § CC 99. Family authority
- § CC 100. Surname of married persons
- § CC 103. Judgment of divorce; other grounds
- § CC 103.1. Judgment of divorce; time periods
- § CC 104. Reconciliation
- § CC 105. Determination of incidental matters
- § CC 112. Determination of final periodic support
- § CC 113. Interim spousal support
- § CC 114. Modification or termination of award of support
- § CC 115. Extinguishment of support obligation
- § CC 116. Modification of spousal support obligation
- § CC 117. Peremptive period for obligation
- § CC 121. Claim for contributions to education or training; authority of court
- § CC 122. Nature of action
- § CC 123. Form of award; effect of remarriage or death
- § CC 124. Prescription of spousal claim for contributions
- § CC 131. Court to determine custody
- § CC 132. Award of custody to parents
- § CC 133. Award of custody to person other than a parent; order of preference
- § CC 134. Factors in determining child's best interest
- § CC 135. Closed custody hearing
- § CC 136. Award of visitation rights
- § CC 136.1. Award of visitation rights
- § CC 137. Denial of visitation; sex offense; death of a parent
- § CC 138. Modification of custody award
- § CC 141. Child support; authority of court
- § CC 142. Modification or termination of child support award
- § CC 151. Proceeding for declaration of nullity of a marriage; interim incidental relief
- § CC 152. Proceeding for declaration of nullity of a marriage; final incidental relief
- § CC 179. Establishment of filiation
- § CC 185. Presumption of paternity of husband
- § CC 186. Presumption if child is born after divorce or after death of husband; effect of disavowal
- § CC 187. Disavowal action; proof
- § CC 188. Disavowal precluded in case of assisted conception
- § CC 189. Time limit for disavowal by the husband
- § CC 190. Time limit for disavowal by heir or legatee
- § CC 190.1. Three-party acknowledgment; alternative to disavowal; time period
- § CC 191. Contestation and establishment of paternity by mother
- § CC 192. Contestation action; proof
- § CC 193. Contestation and establishment of paternity; time period
- § CC 194. Judgment in contestation action
- § CC 195. Presumption by marriage and acknowledgment; child not filiated to another man; proof; time period
- § CC 196. Formal acknowledgment; presumption
- § CC 197. Child's action to establish paternity; proof; time period
- § CC 198. Father's action to establish paternity; time period
- § CC 200. Adoption of minors
- § CC 212. Adult adoption requirements
- § CC 213. Adult adoption; form
- § CC 214. Adult adoption; recordation requirement
- § CC 222. Representation of minor
- § CC 223. Rights and obligations of parental authority
- § CC 224. Parental obligation of support and education
- § CC 225. Parental liability for child's offenses and quasi-offenses
- § CC 226. Parental obligation of direction
- § CC 227. Parental control
- § CC 228. Child's obligation of obedience; parental correction
- § CC 229. Administration of the property of the child
- § CC 230. Alienation, encumbrance, or lease of the property of the child; expenditure of fruits
- § CC 231. Parents' obligation to deliver and account
- § CC 232. Parental authority
- § CC 233. Delegation of parental authority
- § CC 234. Parental authority; custody award
- § CC 235. Termination of parental authority
- § CC 237. Obligation of providing the basic necessities of life; ascendants and descendants; exceptions
- § CC 238. Amount of support
- § CC 239. Modification or termination of support
- § CC 247. Kinds of tutorships.
- § CC 248. Modes of establishment of tutorships.
- § CC 249. Accountability of tutor.
- § CC 250. Persons entitled to tutorship
- § CC 252. Unborn and posthumous children.
- § CC 256. Children born outside of marriage
- § CC 257. Surviving parent's right of appointment.
- § CC 258. Right of appointment where parents are divorced or separated
- § CC 259. Option of acceptance of tutorship.
- § CC 261. Child born outside of marriage
- § CC 262. Appointment of several tutors; order of priority.
- § CC 263. Qualified ascendants; collaterals by blood; surviving spouse.
- § CC 270. Occasion for tutorship.
- § CC 273. Necessity for appointment.
- § CC 278. Liability concerning minor's legal mortgage.
- § CC 280. Termination of undertutorship.
- § CC 292. Excuse by reason of office or function.
- § CC 293. Waiver of excuse by subsequent acceptance of tutorship.
- § CC 294. Subsequently acquired excuse.
- § CC 295. Excuse for remote relationship.
- § CC 296. Excuse for age.
- § CC 297. Excuse for infirmity.
- § CC 298. Excuse for prior tutorships
- § CC 299. Time to present excuse.
- § CC 300. Provisional administration pending consideration of excuse.
- § CC 301. Parent's unconditional obligation of tutorship.
- § CC 308. Duty to apply for appointment.
- § CC 309. Minors exempt from taking application.
- § CC 310. Liability for failure to make application.
- § CC 311. Action for damages; prescription.
- § CC 322. Minor's legal mortgage on tutor's property.
- § CC 333. Sale of mortgaged property by one claimant; inscription of legal mortgage of remaining minors.
- § CC 336. Alienation of minor's immovables.
- § CC 338. Interest.
- § CC 339. Agreements between tutor and minor.
- § CC 340. Prescription of minor's action against tutor.
- § CC 354. Placing under continuing tutorship
- § CC 355. Petition for full or limited continuing tutorship
- § CC 356. Title of proceedings; procedural rules; parent to be named tutor
- § CC 357. Decree; place of recording; notice
- § CC 358. Full continuing tutorship; authority; privileges and duties of tutor and undertutor
- § CC 358.1. Limited continuing tutorship; authority; privileges and duties of tutor and undertutor
- § CC 358.2. Termination of continuing tutorship
- § CC 359. Restriction on legal capacity
- § CC 360. Parents' rights of administration
- § CC 361. Contest of decree restricting legal capacity
- § CC 362. Persons subject to interdiction
- § CC 366. Judicial emancipation
- § CC 367. Emancipation by marriage
- § CC 368. Limited emancipation by authentic act
- § CC 369. Emancipation; when effective
- § CC 370. Modification and termination of judicial emancipation
- § CC 371. Modification or termination of limited emancipation by authentic act
- § CC 390. Limited interdiction
- § CC 391. Temporary and preliminary interdiction
- § CC 393. Undercurators
- § CC 395. Capacity to make juridical acts
- § CC 396. Effective date of judgment of interdiction
- § CC 398. Effective date of modification or termination of a judgment of interdiction
- § CC 449. Common things.
- § CC 450. Public things.
- § CC 451. Seashore.
- § CC 452. Public things and common things subject to public use.
- § CC 453. Private things.
- § CC 454. Freedom of disposition by private persons.
- § CC 455. Private things subject to public use.
- § CC 456. Banks of navigable rivers or streams.
- § CC 457. Roads; public or private.
- § CC 458. Works obstructing the public use.
- § CC 459. Building encroaching on public way.
- § CC 460. Construction of navigation facilities on public places by port commissions or municipalities.
- § CC 461. Corporeals and incorporeals.
- § CC 462. Tracts of land.
- § CC 463. Component parts of tracts of land.
- § CC 464. Buildings and standing timber as separate immovables.
- § CC 465. Things incorporated into an immovable.
- § CC 466. Component parts of a building or other construction
- § CC 467. Immovables by declaration.
- § CC 468. Deimmobilization.
- § CC 469. Transfer or encumbrance of immovable.
- § CC 470. Incorporeal immovables.
- § CC 471. Corporeal movables.
- § CC 472. Building materials.
- § CC 473. Incorporeal movables.
- § CC 474. Movables by anticipation.
- § CC 475. Things not immovable.
- § CC 478. Resolutory condition; real right in favor of other person.
- § CC 479. Necessity of a person.
- § CC 480. Co-ownership.
- § CC 481. Ownership and possession distinguished.
- § CC 482. Accession.
- § CC 484. Young of animals.
- § CC 485. Fruits produced by a third person; reimbursement.
- § CC 486. Possessor's right to fruits.
- § CC 487. Possessor in good faith; definition.
- § CC 488. Products; reimbursement of expenses.
- § CC 489. Apportionment of fruits.
- § CC 490. Accession above and below the surface.
- § CC 491. Buildings, other constructions, standing timber, and crops.
- § CC 492. Separate ownership of part of a building.
- § CC 493. Ownership of improvements
- § CC 493.1. Ownership of component parts
- § CC 493.2. Loss of ownership by accession; claims of former owner
- § CC 494. Constructions by landowner with materials of another.
- § CC 495. Things incorporated in, or attached to, an immovable with the consent of the owner of the immovable.
- § CC 496. Constructions by possessor in good faith.
- § CC 497. Constructions by bad faith possessor.
- § CC 498. Claims against third persons
- § CC 499. Alluvion and dereliction.
- § CC 500. Shore of the sea or of a lake.
- § CC 501. Division of alluvion.
- § CC 502. Sudden action of waters.
- § CC 503. Island formed by river opening a new channel.
- § CC 504. Ownership of abandoned bed when river changes course.
- § CC 505. Islands and sandbars in navigable rivers.
- § CC 506. Ownership of beds of nonnavigable rivers or streams.
- § CC 507. Accession as between movables.
- § CC 508. Things principal and accessory
- § CC 509. Value or bulk as a basis to determine principal thing.
- § CC 510. Union of a principal and an accessory thing.
- § CC 511. Ownership of new thing made with materials of another.
- § CC 512. Effect of bad faith.
- § CC 513. Use of materials of two owners; separation or co-ownership.
- § CC 514. Mixture of materials.
- § CC 515. Recovery of materials or value in lieu of ownership.
- § CC 516. Liability for unauthorized use of a movable.
- § CC 518. Voluntary transfer of the ownership of a movable
- § CC 519. Transfer of action for recovery of movable.
- § CC 520. Transfer of ownership by merchant
- § CC 521. Lost or stolen thing.
- § CC 522. Transfer of ownership by owner under annullable title.
- § CC 523. Good faith; definition.
- § CC 524. Recovery of lost or stolen things.
- § CC 525. Registered movables
- § CC 527. Necessary expenses.
- § CC 528. Useful expenses.
- § CC 529. Right of retention.
- § CC 530. Presumption of ownership of movable.
- § CC 531. Proof of ownership of immovable
- § CC 532. Common author.
- § CC 534. Personal servitude.
- § CC 536. Consumable things.
- § CC 537. Nonconsumable things.
- § CC 538. Usufruct of consumable things
- § CC 539. Usufruct of nonconsumable things.
- § CC 540. Nature of usufruct.
- § CC 541. Divisibility of usufruct.
- § CC 542. Divisibility of naked ownership.
- § CC 543. Partition of the property in kind or by licitation
- § CC 544. Methods of establishing usufruct; things susceptible of usufruct.
- § CC 545. Modifications of usufruct.
- § CC 546. Usufruct in favor of successive usufructuaries.
- § CC 547. Usufruct in favor of several usufructuaries.
- § CC 548. Existence of usufructuaries.
- § CC 549. Capacity to receive usufruct
- § CC 550. Right to all fruits.
- § CC 551. Kinds of fruits.
- § CC 552. Corporate distributions.
- § CC 553. Voting of shares of stock and other rights
- § CC 554. Commencement of the right to fruits.
- § CC 555. Nonapportionment of natural fruits.
- § CC 556. Apportionment of civil fruits.
- § CC 557. Possession and use of the things.
- § CC 558. Improvements and alterations
- § CC 559. Accessories.
- § CC 560. Trees, stones, and other materials.
- § CC 561. Mines and quarries.
- § CC 562. Usufruct of timberlands.
- § CC 563. Alluvion.
- § CC 564. Treasure.
- § CC 565. Predial servitudes.
- § CC 566. Actions.
- § CC 567. Contracts affecting the usufructuary's liability
- § CC 568. Disposition of nonconsumable things
- § CC 568.1. Donation and alienation
- § CC 568.2. Right to lease
- § CC 568.3. Requirement to remove encumbrance
- § CC 569. Duties with regard to things gradually or totally impaired
- § CC 570. Inventory.
- § CC 571. Security
- § CC 572. Amount of security.
- § CC 573. Dispensation of security
- § CC 574. Delay in giving security