RS 9:5001
Attorneys at law are granted a special privilege for their professional fees on judgments they obtain and on property recovered through those judgments.
- Attorney fees
- Privileges
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Attorneys at law are granted a special privilege for their professional fees on judgments they obtain and on property recovered through those judgments.
A succession creditor and certain particular legatees get a privilege over the deceased person’s property when the succession is accepted without administration.
A creditor of an heir or residuary legatee may have a privilege over certain property and may be paid from judicial sale proceeds before succession creditors.
This section says certain privileges can affect a deceased person’s property, but they remain subordinate to earlier mortgages or privileges; a claim affidavit must be filed within three months to expand the effect in some cases.
A succession creditor or particular legatee may enforce a privilege against certain immovable property if the claim affidavit was recorded and the suit is filed before the privilege inscription perempts.
An inscription of the covered privilege expires after three months if no suit was filed first.
A creditor’s privilege inscription under R.S. 9:5012 perempts after 3 months unless the creditor files suit to enforce the claim before that happens.
Producers of agricultural and dairy products get a special privilege on the purchaser’s assets if the purchaser becomes insolvent or bankrupt.
A lien or privilege generally cannot be canceled, removed from the public records, or otherwise affected by a sale of the property in certain proceedings.
Women have the same rights as men and must perform the same obligations and duties when holding office.
This section was repealed.
This section was repealed effective January 1, 1992.
A person publishing and circulating a newspaper may issue debt instruments and secure them with the newspaper’s plant, equipment, name, and goodwill.
Section 5104 was repealed.
This section was repealed.
This section states that §§5121 to 5126 were repealed.
If a mineral right is seized in enforcement of a mortgage, the court must direct the seizing officer to appoint the person chosen by the parties as keeper.
Parties to a mortgage of a mineral right may choose the keeper of the property and may do so by naming the person, describing how to select the person, or designating the mortgagee or the mortgagee’s agent.
A court-appointed keeper has broad power to administer and operate the mortgaged mineral property, must account when the court directs, and may be denied or have compensation reduced in some cases.
A sheriff or other seizing officer is not responsible for the seized property or the keeper’s actions after the property has been delivered to the keeper.
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