La. Civ. Code art. 515

This is the official text of La. Civ. Code art. 515, 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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Recovery of materials or value in lieu of ownership.

Official statutory text

When an owner of materials that have been used without his knowledge for the making of a new thing acquires the ownership of that thing, he may demand that, in lieu of the ownership of the new thing, materials of the same species, quantity, weight, measure and quality or their value be delivered to him.

Acts 1979, No. 180, §1.

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