to him, must be reimbursed for
the expenses which have improv-
ed the same, 1334.

IMPUTATION OF PAY-
MENT.

How done, from 2159 to 2162.
INCAPACITY.

Of being tutor, 322, 325.
Of being heir, from 928 to 957,
959, 969.

Of disposing or receiving by dona-
tion, from 1456 to 1478.

Of contracting, 1775, 1776, 1779,
1782, 1784.

INCESTUOUS CHILDREN.
What children are so called, 102.
They cannot be legitimated, 217;
nor acknowledged, 222.

They cannot inherit their natural
fathers and mothers; they may
only receive alimony from them,
914, 1475.

INCORPOREAL THINGS
Defined, 451.

They are considered either as
moveables or immoveables, ac-
cording to the object to which
they relate, 462.

What incorporeal rights are con-
sidered as immoveable, 463.
What are considered as moveable,
466, 467.

INDEPENDANT CON-
TRACTS
Defined, 1762.

INDICATION OF PAYMENT.
The mere indication made by a
debtor of a person who is to pay
in his place, does not operate a
novation, 2190.

INDIVISIBLE OBLIGATIONS.
How an obligation is indivisible
from 2104 to 2106.
Of the effects of indivisible obliga-
tions, from 2109 to 2112.

INEXECUTION OF CONDI-

TIONS.

May cause the revocation of a
donation inter vivos, 1546, and
from 1552 to 1555.

Of contracts. v. Damages.

INFAMOUS PERSONS
Cannot be witnesses, 2260.
INFIRMITIES.

Persons incapable of managing

their own affairs by reason of
infirmities, are placed under the
care of curators, 32, 409.
Of the infirmities which may ex-
cuse from tutorship, 317.
INGRATITUDE.

A donation inter vivos may be
revoked on account of ingrati-
tude, 1546.

The revocation on account of in-
gratitude can take place only in
three cases, 1547.

Within what time, by whom, and
against whom the action must be
brought, 1548.

Of the effect of that revocation,
and what donations cannot be
revoked for cause of ingratitude,
from 1549 to 1551.

INJURIOUS WORDS.
The action for injurious words, is
prescribed against by one year,
3501, 3502.

tion, 1979, and from 1981 to
1983.

INSTITUTION of heir. v.

Testamentary dispositions.
INTERDICTION.

In what case the persons insane
may be interdicted, and who has
a right to petition for such inter-
diction, from 382 to 385.
How the act of madness, insanity
or fury, must be proved to pro-
nounce the interdiction, and of
the proceedings thereon, 286;
and from 388 to 390, 392, 406.
How the judge may appoint an
administrator pro tempore du-
ring the pendency of the suit for
interdiction, 387.

Every sentence of interdiction
shall be published; in what man-
ner; and of the effects of the in-
terdiction, from 393 to 397.
How the interdiction may be re-
voked, 407, 408.

All persons who, owing to certain
infirmities, are incapable of ta-
king care of their persons and
property, may be interdicted,

409.

Interdiction does not take place on
account of profligacy or prodiga-
lity, 413.

Of contracts made by persons in-
terdicted, 1781, 1782.

v. Persons interdicted.

IN SOLIDO. v. obligations in
solido.

INTEREST

Due on the balance of the tutor's
account, 353.

Interest of money is a civil fruit,
and belong to the usufructuary,
537, 540.

Such interest is supposed to be
obtained day by day, 540.
Interest is of two kinds, and of
the rules respecting both, from

1930 to 1937 and 1939.
Interest upon interest cannot be
recovered, 1934, 1936.

A demand of interest against one
of the debtors in solido, makes
interest run with respect to all,
2093.

In order to make a real tender va-
lid, it must be made not only for

the whole of the sum demanded,
but also for the interest due,
2164.

The interest of the dowry begins
from the day of marriage, against
those who have promised the
same, 2326.

From what day the interest of
the dowry is due by the hus-
band, 2353.

In what cases the buyer owes in-
terest on the price of the sale un-
til the payment of the capital,
2531, 2532.

How the purchaser may relieve
himself from the payment of in-
terest, 2537.

When the interest of the sums
lent, and the arrears of constitu-
ted and life annuity, is due,
2771.

It is lawful to stipulate interest
for a loan either of money or of
other moveable things, 2894.
Interest is either legal or conven-
tional, 2895.

Of the rate of legal interest, ib.;
and of conventional interest, ib.
The release of the principal with-
out any reserve as to the inter-
est, operates a release of such
interest, 2896.

INTERPRETATION OF A-
GREEMENTS OR CON-
TRACTS.
Rules respecting that, from 1940
to 1956.

Of legacies, rules respecting it,
from 1705 to 1716.

INTERRUPTION OF PRE-
SCRIPTION.'

Of the causes which interrupt
prescription tending to the ac-
quisition of property, from 3482
to 3486.

Of natural interruption, when it
takes place, 3483.

Of legal interruption, 3484, 3485.
How such prescription ceases by
the acknowledgment of the deb-
tor or possessor, 3486.

By what causes the prescription
operating a discharge from debts
is interrupted, from 3516 to
3518.

INVENTORY.

To be made of the property of ab-
sentees, 52, 67.

To be made by tutors of minors,
329; by the usufructuary, or by
the person having the use of a
thing, 550, 624; by the judge,
in the cases where successions
are under administration, 1028,
1029, 1033, and from 1093 to
1096; by the testamentary exe-
cutors, 1659; and by the widow
who wishes to preserve the pow-
er of renouncing the commu-
nity of gains, 2382.

Of the formalities which must be
observed in public inventories,
from 1098 to 1103.

IRREVOCABILITY.

Of the exceptions to the rule of
irrevocability, from 1546 to

1562.

IRRESISTIBLE FORCE.
Cases in which irresistible force
exempts the debtor from dama-
ges 1927.

The lessee is not answerable for
the losses which happen by un-
foreseen events, 2667.
How the borrower for use may be
answerable, though the loss of
the thing happens by chance,
from 2870 to 2872.

A depositary is not answerable,
when the thing deposited has
been lost by an irresistible event,
2917.

v. Fortuitous event.

ISLANDS.

Cases in which they belong to the
nation or to the state, or to the
riparian proprietors, 504, 505.
How those which belong to the ri-
parian proprietors, are divided
among them, 506, 507.

When a river or creek cuts off and
surrounds the field of a riparian
owner, and makes it an island,
the owner shall keep the pro-
perty of his field, 509.

The usufructuary enjoys the in-
crease by alluvion, but he has
no right to the islands formed in
a stream opposite the land of
which he has the usufruct, 546.

Of sales on seizure or execution,
by whom made, and of their
effect, 2596, 2598.

There is no warranty against red-
hibitory vices in such sales,
2597.

Of the recourse of the purchaser
in case of eviction, 2599.

Of the judicial sale of the pro-
perty of successions, by whom
made, and of its effects, 2600,
2601.

Of the warranty in such sales,
2602.

The heirs may become highest
bidders at such sales for the
amount of their share in the suc-
cession, in what manner, 2603.

JUDICIAL SURETY.
What are the qualifications he
must possess, and effects of that
suretyship, 3033, and from 3035
to 3037.

How the person, who can give
no security, is admitted to give
a pledge or other sufficient satis-
faction, 3034.

JUST TITLE.

What is understood by a just
title in matter of prescription,
3450, 3451.

Of the just title which is necessary
to acquire real property by the
prescription of ten and twenty
years, 3437, 3445, 3349.
Of the just title necessary to ac-
quire the property of slaves by
prescription of less than thirty
years, 3444, 3445, 3349.
Of the just title necessary to ac-
quire the property of movea-
bles, by the prescription of three
years, 3472.

The property of any kind of im-
moveables and slaves is acquired
by the prescription of thirty
years, without any title or good
faith on the part of the possessor,
3438, 3465.

The property of moveables is ac-
quired by ten and twenty years
without good faith or just title
on the part of the possessor,

3475.

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
May be authorised to celebrate
marriages, and by whom, 102.
Of the duties of the magistrates so
authorised, 93.

The family meetings may be held
before justices of the peace, and
how they must proceed in such
case, from 308 to 311.
Justices of the peace may affix
seals or take them off, from
1070 to 1086.

K

KEEPERS OF BOARDING
HOUSES.

Of their privileges, 3178, 3180.

In what different ways labour
may be let out, 2716.
LABOURERS.

Of the rights and duties of la-
bourers who hire themselves
out to serve on plantations, or
to work in manufactures, from
2719 to 2721.

Of their privilege for their sala-
ries or wages, 3184.
How their action is prescribed
against, 3499.

LANDS AND BUILDINGS.
Are immoveable by their nature,
455.

LAST SICKNESS.

(Charges of the) privileged, 3158.
What is called the last sickness
of a deceased, and what are the
expenses enjoying that privilege,
from 3166 to 3169.

How such expenses must be
settled by the judge, 3170.
LAST WILL. v. testament.
LAW.

LEGAL COMMUNITY.

Of acquests and gains, from 2369
to 2392.

How such community is esta-
blished, 2369, 2370.

Of what property such commu-
nity is composed, and what is
excluded therefrom, 2371, 2372.
The husband is the head and mas-
ter of the partnership or com-
munity of gains, 2373.
Of the partition of the common
property after the dissolution of
the marriage, from 2374 to 2378.
Of the renunciation of the wife
or her heirs to the community,
v. renunciation.

LEGAL OR TACIT MORT-
GAGES.

How a tacit or legal mortgage is
established, and under what re-
strictions, from 3279 to 3281.
Of the legal mortgages of the mi-
nors, persons interdicted, and
absentees, on the property of
their tutors and curators and of
those who have administered
their property as such, 354,
3582, 3583, 3584.

Of the legal mortgage of the wife
on the property of her husband
2357, 2367, 3287.

Of the other legal mortgages,
3285, 3286, 3288.

LEGAL SURETIES,

Rules respecting them, from 3033
to 3037.

LEGATEES.

The universal legatee who con-
curs with a forced heir, must

contribute to the
payment of
the debts, 1603.
Of the duties and obligations of
legatees under an universal title,
from 1605 to 1607.

In what manner the legatee of
an usufruct under an universal
title, must contribute to the pay-
ment of the debts, 580, 581.
LEGITIMACY.

Resulting from marriage, how it
is established, and may be dis-
puted from 203 to 211.

LEGITIMATE CHILDREN.
Children are legitimate or bas-
tards, and who are legitimate,27,
197, 198.

The law considers the husband as
the father of all the children
conceived during the marriage ;
exceptions to that rule, 203,
205, 206, 208.

When the legitimacy of the child
may be contested, 207; within
what time, and by whom, 207,
210, 211.

When it cannot be contested,
204, 209.

Of the duties of legitimate chil-
dren towards their parents, from
233 to 236, 244, 245. v. alimony.
How legitimate children inherit
their parents, 898.

LEGITIMATED CHILDREN.
Children legitimated by a subse-
quent marriage, have the same
rights as if they were born dur-
ing marriage, 219.

LEGITIMATE FILIATION.
Of the manner of proving the sa-
me, from 212 to 216.

LEGITIMATION.

What children may be legitima-
ted, and in what manner, 217,
218.

v. Natural Children.
LEGITIME OR

MATE PORTION.
1480, 1481, 1485.
LENDER.

LEGITI-

Of the obligations of the lender
for use, from 2877 to 2880.
Of the obligations of the lender
for consumption, from 2887 to
2899.

v. Borrower, loan.