La. Civ. Code art. 2652

This is the official text of La. Civ. Code art. 2652, 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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Sale of litigious rights

Official statutory text

When a litigious right is assigned, the debtor may extinguish his obligation by paying to the assignee the price the assignee paid for the assignment, with interest from the time of the assignment.

A right is litigious, for that purpose, when it is contested in a suit already filed.

Nevertheless, the debtor may not thus extinguish his obligation when the assignment has been made to a co-owner of the assigned right, or to a possessor of the thing subject to the litigious right.

Acts 1993, No. 841, ยง1, eff. Jan. 1, 1995.

Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site

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