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PROMULGATION OF THE CIVIL CODE.

Extract from an Act passed by the Sixth Legislature, of the State of Louisiana, in their Second Session, entitled "An Act to provide for the printing and the promulgation of the Amendments made to the Civil Code of the State of Louisiana," Approved, April 12, 1824.

SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana, in General Assembly convened; That the amendments made to the Civil Code of the State, shall be in force from the day of their promulgation, as hereinafter provided.

SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Code as amended, shall be printed in the English and French languages, opposite to one another, under the title of " Civil Code of the State of Louisiana.”

SECT. 7. And be it further enacted, That when the said Civil Code shall be printed and received, the promulgation of it shall be made by the Secretary of State, by sending a copy thereof to each of the courts of and within this State, of which transmission the date shall be recorded in the office of the Secretary of State; and one month after said transmission, the said Code shall be deemed promulgated, and shall henceforward be in full force throughout the State.

A. B. ROMAN,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

H. S. THIBODAUX,

President of the Senate.

Approved, April 12, 1824.

TH. B. ROBERTSON,

Governor of the State of Louisiana.

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The Ciphers indicate the numbers of the Articles.

ABANDONMENT.
Separation may be claimed in
case of abandonment of the hus-
band by his wife, or of the wife
by her husband; in what man-
ner, from 139 to 143.

How a master may discharge him-
self from the responsibility by
him incurred in abandoning his
slave, 181.

The abandonment of the land ex-
tinguishes the servitudes charged
'on it, 809.

Of the abandonment of property
made by a debtor to his creditors,
v. cession of properly.
ABSENCE.

Of the effects of absence upon
the eventual rights which may
belong to the absentee, from 77
to 80.

Of the effects of absence respect-
ing marriage, 81, v. absentees.

ABSENTEES.

Of the meaning of the word ab-
sentee, 3522. no 3.

Of the curatorship of absentees,
from 50 to 57.

Of the putting into provisional
possession the heirs of the ab-
sentee, from 58 to 76.

Of the case of the minor children
whose father has disappeared,
from 82 to 86.

Curators who have been appoint-
ed to absentees, or relations
who have been put in possession
of the effects of such absentees,
can sue or be sued for a parti-
tion, 1238.

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Of the community between hus-
band and wife. Rules relative
thereto. v. community.

Of donations inter vivos; forms
and effect of the acceptance of
these donations, from 1527 to
1533. Such acceptance is not re-
quired in donations made by
marriage contract, 1732.
Of successions; in what manner
successions may be accepted ex-
pressly or tacitly,
982.
At what time succession may be
accepted, from 972 to 981.
When the acceptance of a suc-
cession is implied or not from
certain acts, from 990 to 997.
Who are the persons who can or
cannot accept a succession, from
998 to 1001.

What are the effects of the accep-
tation of a succession, from 1003
to 1006.

ACCESSION

(Of the right of); what is so cal-
led, 490.

Of the right of accession to what
is produced by the thing, from
491 to 495. v. fruits.

Of the right of accession to what
unites or incorporates itself to
the thing, 496.

Of the right of accession in rela-
tion to immoveables, from 497
to 511; in relation to moveables,
from 512 to 524.

ACCESSORIES.
The obligation of delivering the
thing sold, includes its accesso-
ries and dependencies, 2466.
ACCESSORY

contract; its definition in oppo-
sition to a principal contract,
1764.

ACCIDENTS.

v. fortuitous events.
ACCOUNTS

to be rendered by the tutor of a
minor, from 350 to 356 ; by cu-
rators to vacant successions and
to absent heirs, from 1179 to
1196; by the testamentary exe-
cutor, from 1666 to 1668.
ACCRETION

(Right of); in succession ab in-
testato, the portion of the heir
renouncing goes to his co-heirs
of the same degree: it is what is
called the right of accretion,
from 1015 to 1021.

This right does not exist in mat-
ter of testamentary dispositions,
except in some cases provided by
law, from 1699 to 1702.

ACCRETIONS

Which are formed successively
and imperceptibly to any soil si-
tuated on the bank of a river,
to whom they belong, 501. v.
alluvions,

ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Of natural children by their fa-
thers and mothers, in whose fa-
vour it may be made, its forms
and effects, from 221 to 223. v.
natural children.

ACQUESTS AND GAINS. v.
community.
ACTIONS.

An action for the recovery of an

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ACTS under private signature.
What contracts may be made un-
der private signature, 2237.
Of the form necessary for their
validity, 2238.

Of the credit to be given to them,
2239.

How the person, who did sub-
scribe such acts, must acknow-
ledge or deny his signature, 2240.
Of the proof to be made when
the signature is expressly denied,
2241.

In case of sale or exchange of real
property or slaves, the acts un-
der private signature are valid
against bona fide purchasers and
creditors, only from the day on
which they are registered in the
office of a notary public, 2242.
V. authentic, confirmative, con-
servatory and recognitive acts.
ADJUDICATION.

How the property which minors
hold in common with their fa-
thers and mothers, may be ad-
judicated to the latter, 338.
In what manner adjudication at
public sales ought to be made,
aud of their effect, from 2585 to
2593, 2601.

ADMINISTRATION.

Of the tutor, from 327 to 356. v.

tulor.

Of vacant successions, v. cura-
tors to vacant successions.
ADMINISTRATORS OF SUC-

CESSIONS.

Of the appointment and duties
of the administrator of a suc-
cession, the heir of which takes
time for deliberating, 2387 from

1034 to 1042, 1046, 1052, and
from 1055 to1063.
ADOPTION.

The adoption is abolished, 232.
ADULTEROUS CHILDREN.
Who are called so, 201.
They cannot be legitimated or
acknowledged by their fathers
and mothers, 217, 222; but they
are entitled to alimony, 262.
Adulterous and incestuous chil-
dren can in no case inherit the
estates of their natural fathers
and mothers, 914.

In what manner fathers and mo-
thers are restrained from dispo-
sing in favour of their adulterous
and incestuous children, 1475.
ADULTERY.

The husband may claim a sepa-
ration in case of adultery on the
part of his wife, 136.

The wife may also claim such se-
paration in case of adultery on
the part of her husband, when
he has kept his concubine in
their common dwelling, 137.
ADULTS.

Males who have attained fourteen
years complete, and females the
age of twelve years complete,
are distinguished by the name
of adults, 40.

ADVERTISEMENTS.
What is understood by public ad-
vertisements, 3522. no 4.
AFFINITY

Is not an impediment to mar-
riage, 98.

AFFIXING OF SEALS.
v. seals.

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The persons who have been put
into provisional possession of the
estate of the absentee, cannot
alienate his immoveables and
slaves, 70.

When it is necessary to sell any
of the slaves of the absentee, in
what manner such sale may be
made, 65.

Minor's property cannot be alie-
nated, except when it is for the
interest of the minor to do so;
with what formalities such sale
must be made, 338, 339.
The immoveables settled as a dowry
cannot be alienated except in
certain cases,
from 2337 to
2342.

ALIMONY.

Children are bound to maintain
their father and mother and other
ascendants who are in need, and
this obligation is reciprocal on
the part of the children and other
descendants, 245.

What is understood by the word
alimony, 246.

In what manner alimony must be
granted, from 247 to 250.
Fathers and mothers owe alimony
to their natural children, and
vice versa; and of the rules re-
lative to that obligation, from
256 to 261.

Alimony is due to bastards, though
they be adulterous and inces-
tuous, by their mother and her
ascendants, 262.

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