La. Civ. Code art. 3234

This is the official text of La. Civ. Code art. 3234, 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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Property covered by innkeepers' privilege.

Official statutory text

Innkeepers, hotel, boarding house and lodging house keepers enjoy this privilege on all the property which the sojourner has brought to their place, whether it belongs to him or not, because the property so brought into their place has become pledged to them by the mere fact of its introduction into their place.

Amended by Acts 1896, No. 35.

Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site

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