A person may be excused from the
tutorships by his age, infirmities,
or the number of tutorships to
which he has been already ap-
pointed, from 316 to 318.

In what manner and at what time
the tutor must propose his ex-
cuses against his appointment;
he is bound to administer provi-
sionally during the pendency of
the suit relative thereto, 319, 320.
No excuse whatever may dispense
the father from accepting the tu-
torship of his children, 321.
CAUSES,

For which a person may be exclu-
ded or removed from tutorship,
v. Incapacity, exclusion and
deprivation of tutorship.
CELEBRATION OF MARRI-

AGES.

By whom marriages may be cele-
brated, 101, 102.

No marriage can be celebrated
without the licence of the parish
judge; in what manner this li-
cence must be granted, and how
opposition may be made to the
granting of it, from 103 to 106,
from 108 to 110.

In whose presence the marriage
must be celebrated; act to be
made of such celebration, 107.
No marriage can be contracted
by procuration, 111.

CERTAIN, UNCERTAIN.
What is the legal meaning of
these words, 3522, no. 8.

CERTAIN CONTRACTS.
Definition of contracts which are
certain, 1768.

CESSION OF PROPERTY,
Defined, 2166.

Two kinds of cession, 2167, 2168.
Both are subject to formalities
prescribed by special laws, 2169.
What is the benefit of the volun-
tary cession of property, and of
its effects, 2170, 2172, 2173.
The cession of goods does not
transfer the property to the cre-
ditors, but only gives them the
right of selling it, 2171.

The creditors cannot refuse the

cession of property, except in
case of fraud, 2172.

Of the rights which the debtor

CHARGES.

Of the charges which the usufruc-
tuary is bound to support,572,573.
CHILD, CHILDREN.

Children are legitimate or bas-
tards, 27.

Children born dead, are consi-
dered as if they had never been
born or conceived, 28.
Children in their mother's womb
are considered as if they were al-
ready born, and of their rights, 29.
Children are legitimate or ille-
gitimate, 197.

When the child is or is not deem-
ed capable of living, 205; and
when his legitimacy may be dis-
puted, from 204 to 211.

How the filiation of legitimate
children may be proved,
v. Filiation.

How children, born out of mar-
riage, may be legitimated,
v. Legitimation.

v. Bastards, illegitimate, legi-
timate and natural children.
CHILDREN OF COLOUR.
In what manner proof of acknow-
ledgment of children of colour
may be made, 221.

CHILDREN OF SLAVES.
Children born of a mother in sla-
very follow the condition of their
mother, and belong to the mas-
ter of such mother, 183, 492.
The usufructuary has only the
enjoyment of their labour or ser-
vices, 539.

Children of slaves are considered
as natural fruits, 537.
The child born of a woman, after
she has acquired the right of being
free at a future time, becomes
free at the period fixed for
her enfranchisement, 196.

CHIMNEY.

At what distance and in what
manner a chimney must be con-
structed near a wall, whether
held in common or not with a
neighbour, 688, 689.
CITATION.

In what manner prescription is
interrupted by a citation, 3484,
3485, 3517, 3518.

CITIES.

Things which are for the common
use of a city, are public things,
445.

Things which belong in common
to the inhabitants of cities, are
of the kinds, 449.

CITY COUNCILS

Have the right to make regulations
to determine the mode of pro-
ceeding to pull down houses in
order to arrest the progress of
fire, 668.

CIVIL FRUITS.

What fruits are so called, 537.
-They belong to the usufruc-
tuary, 536, and they are acquir-
ed day by day, 540. v. fruits.
CIVIL OBLIGATIONS.
Defined, 1750.

Their different kinds, 1753.

CIVIL POSSESSION.
Defined, 3390, 3392. In what it
differs from natural possession,
3394.

How it may be retained, 3468.
V. possession.

CLAUSES. v. penal clauses.
CLERKS AND SECRETARIES
Have a privilege for their salaries,
3158, 3181. Their actions for the
same are prescribed against by
three years, 3503.

CLERKS OF COURTS.

The actions for their fees are pre-
scribed against by three years,
3503.

CLOTHES. v, linen and clothes.
CODICIL.

The form of disposing by codicil
is abolished, 1563.
COHABITATION
Between husband and wife, is
ever presumed in case of a volun-
tary separation, 207.

The proof of cohabitation with
the reputed father, though sup-

How it is due by children and
other descendants, from 1306 to
1318.

How they may be dispensed with

the obligation of collating, from
1309 to 1312.

Who are the children and descen-

dants who are bound to collate,

from 1313 to 1319.

To whom the collation is due, and
what things are subject to it,
from 1320 to 1328.

To what succession it is due, 1320,
What things are and what things
are not subject to be collated,
1320, and from 1322 to 1325 and
1328.

How collations are made and in
what ways, from 1329 to 1367.
Of the collation when made in
kind, 1320; and when made by
taking less, 1331.

Of the collation when the things
given were immoveables, from
1333 to 1360; when they consist-
ed in slaves, 1361, 1262; when
in moveable effects, 1363; when
in specie, 1364.

COMMERCIAL PARTNER-

or absent heirs, 1187 to 1190 and
1200.

To testamentary executors, from
1676 to 1680.

COMMON PROPERTY
Between husband and wife, 2314.
COMMUNITY

Of acquets and gains between hus-
band and wife, from 2369 to
2393.

How marriage produces by itself
that community, 2369, 2370.
What are the effects included in
that community, 2371.

What debts are excluded there-
from, 2372.

Of the power of the husband on
property
of the community,

the
2373.
Of the partition of the common
effects at the dissolution of the
community, from 2374 to 2377.
How the wife and her heirs may
renounce that community,
v. Renunciation.

How the community may be mo-
dified or limited by the marriage
contract, and how the husband
and wife may agree therein that
there shall be no community be-
tween them, from 2394 to 2398,
v. Separation.

COMMUTATIVE CONTRACTS,
Defined, 1761; when presumed
such, 1763.

be

COMPARISON OF WRITING.
When that kind of proof may
resorted to, 2241.

COMPENSATION OR SET-

manner it is settled, from 2605
to 2610.

Of the recourse of the true owner
against the person who has un-
duly received such compensation,
2611.

CONCUBINAGE.

Persons who live in open concu-
binage, are respectively incapa-
ble of making to each other any
donations, except of moveable ef-
fects up to a certain amount, 1468.
CONCUBINES.

The wife may claim her separation
for the adultery of her husband,
if he has kept his concubine in
the common dwelling, 137.
CONDITIONS,

Required to contract marriage, 91,

92.

Of the suspensive condition and
its effects, from 2038 to 2039.
Of the resolutory condition, from
2040 to 2042.

CONDITIONAL OBLIGA--
TIONS, v. obligations.
CONFESSION,

Of payment, contained in an au-
thentic act, cannot be contested
under the pretence of the excep-
tion of non numerala pecunia,
2234.

Confession is of two kinds, 2268.
Of extra-judicial confession, 2269.
Of judicial confession, 2270.

CONFIRMATIVE ACTS,
And their effects, from 2252 to 2254.
CONFUSION.

Effect of confusion in matter of
servitudes, from 801 to 808; and
for the extinguishment of obli-
gations, 2214, 2215.

CONJUNCTIVE OBLIGATI-

ONS,

Defined, 2058; how created, 2060.

CONSANGUINITY.

The propinquity of consanguinity
is established by the number of
generations, 885.

CONSENT OR ASSENT
Necessary to give validity to a con-
tract, from 1791 to 1813.
Of the nature of the assents, and
how it is to be shewn, from 179:
to 1812.

What defects of consent will in-
validate a contract, 1813.

v. Error, fraud, violence,
threats.

CONSERVATORY ACTS.
Mere conservatory acts do not
amount to an acceptance of a
succession or of a community.
991, 2381.

CONSIGNEE OR COMMIS-
SION AGENT.

Of his privilege on the goods
consigned to him, 3214.
CONSIGNMENT

In case of a tender of payments, its
effects, 2163.

CONSIGNOR.

Of the consent necessary to give
validity to contracts, from 1791
to 1812.

What defects of consent will inva-
lidate a contract, 1813.

Of the object and matter of con-
tracts, from 1877 to 1886.
Of the cause or consideration of
contracts, from 1887 to 1894.
v. Obligations.

CONTRIBUTION.

What is so called with respect to
the payment of the debts of a
succession, 1869.

How the unsufructuary under an
universal title, is bound to con-
tribute to the payment of the
debts of the succession of the
testator, 580, 581.

How legatees under an universal

title contribute to the same, 1606.
When there are several heirs, each
of them contribute to the payment
of the debts, in what propor-
tion, 1369.

CONVENTIONAL MORTGA-

GES.

Defined, 3257; rules relative
thereto, from 3258 to 3278.
CONVENTIONAL OBLIGA-
TIONS. v. obligations.

CONVENTIONAL SERVI-

TUDES.

From 705 to 721.

Of the general division of servi-
tudes into urban and rural, 706.
Of the several kinds of urban ser-
vitudes, from 707 to 716.

Of the several kinds of rural ser-
vitudes, from 717 to 722.
Of the division of servitudes into
continuous and discontinuous,
apparent, or non apparent, 723,
724.

COPIES OF TITLES.
Proof resulting therefrom, from
2247 to 2250.