La. Civ. Code art. 676

This is the official text of La. Civ. Code art. 676, 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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Adjoining wall.

Official statutory text

When a solid masonry wall adjoins another estate, the neighbor has a right to make it a common wall, in whole or in part, by paying to its owner one-half of the current value of the wall, or of the part that he wishes to make common, and one-half of the value of the soil on which the wall is built.

Acts 1977, No. 514, §1.

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