La. Civ. Code art. 1306
This is the official text of La. Civ. Code art. 1306, part of Louisiana’s Civil Code — louisiana's civil law tradition codifies persons, property, obligations, and family relations here rather than in a separate statutory code.
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Prescription where one heir possesses separately and others possess in common.
Official statutory text
If there be but one of the heirs who has separately enjoyed a portion of the effects of the succession during thirty years, and all the other heirs have possessed the residue of the effects of the succession in common, the action of partition among the latter will always subsist.
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