Louisiana Civil Code

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CHAPTER 4 - OF PRIVILEGES ON IMMOVABLES

Art. 3249. Creditors who have a privilege on immovables, are: 

(1) The vendor on the estate by him sold, for the payment of the price or so much of it as is unpaid, whether it was sold on or without a credit.

(2) Those who are granted special privileges on immovables by legislation. [Acts 2019, No. 325, §2.]

Art. 3250. The privilege granted to the vendor on the immovable sold by him, extends to the beasts and agricultural implements attached to the estate, and which made part of the sale.

Art. 3251. If there are several successive sales, on which the price is due wholly or in part, the first vendor is preferred to the second, the second to the third, and so throughout and as provided by Article 3186, and assuming timely recordation as provided in Article 3274, each such vendor is preferred to the previously recorded mortgages of his vendees and their successors. [Acts 1989, No. 538, §1]

CHAPTER 5 - OF PRIVILEGES WHICH EMBRACE BOTH MOVABLES AND IMMOVABLES

Art. 3252. The privileges which extend alike to movables and immovables are the following:

1. Funeral charges.

2. Judicial charges.

3. Expenses of last illness.

4. The wages of servants.

5. The salaries of secretaries, clerks and other agents of that kind.

Whenever a surviving spouse or minor children of a deceased person shall be left in necessitous circumstances, and not possess in their own rights property to the amount of one thousand dollars, the surviving spouse or the legal representatives of the children, shall be entitled to demand and receive from the succession of the deceased spouse or parent, a sum which added to the amount of property owned by them, or either of them, in their own right, will make up the sum of one thousand dollars, and which amount shall be paid in preference to all other debts, except those secured by the vendor's privilege on both movables and immovables, conventional mortgages, and expenses incurred in selling the property. The surviving spouse shall have and enjoy the usufruct of the amount so received from the deceased spouse's succession, until remarriage, which amount shall afterwards vest in and belong to the children or other descendants of the deceased spouse. [Amended. Acts 1917, Ex.Sess. No. 17; Acts 1918, No. 242; Acts 1979, No. 711, §1]

Art. 3253. When, for want of movables, the creditors, who have a privilege according to the preceding article, demand to be paid out of the proceeds of the immovables of the debtor, the payment must be made in the order laid down in the following chapter.




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