La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 4847
This is the official text of La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 4847, part of Louisiana’s Code of Civil Procedure — sets the procedural rules for civil lawsuits in Louisiana courts.
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Limitations upon jurisdiction
Official statutory text
A. Except as otherwise provided by law, a parish court or city court has no jurisdiction in any of the following cases or proceedings:
(1) A case involving title to immovable property.
(2) A case involving the right to public office or position.
(3) A case in which the plaintiff asserts civil or political rights under the federal or state constitutions.
(4) A claim for annulment of marriage, divorce, separation of property, or alimony.
(5) A succession, interdiction, receivership, liquidation, habeas corpus, or quo warranto proceeding.
(6) A case in which the state, or a parish, municipal, or other political corporation is a defendant, except for a petition for nullity filed in the City Court of East St. Tammany to nullify a judgment of bond forfeiture rendered by the City Court of East St. Tammany.
(7) Any other case or proceeding excepted from the jurisdiction of these courts by law.
B. In addition, city courts shall not have jurisdiction in tutorship, curatorship, emancipation, and partition proceedings.
Acts 1986, No. 156, §1; Acts 1986, No. 152, §2, eff. June 28, 1986; Acts 1988, No. 670, §1; Acts 1990, No. 361, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1991; Acts 2011, No. 228, §1; Acts 2020, No. 205, §3, eff. June 11, 2020.
{{NOTE: SEE ACTS 1986, NO. 152, §3.}}
(1) A case involving title to immovable property.
(2) A case involving the right to public office or position.
(3) A case in which the plaintiff asserts civil or political rights under the federal or state constitutions.
(4) A claim for annulment of marriage, divorce, separation of property, or alimony.
(5) A succession, interdiction, receivership, liquidation, habeas corpus, or quo warranto proceeding.
(6) A case in which the state, or a parish, municipal, or other political corporation is a defendant, except for a petition for nullity filed in the City Court of East St. Tammany to nullify a judgment of bond forfeiture rendered by the City Court of East St. Tammany.
(7) Any other case or proceeding excepted from the jurisdiction of these courts by law.
B. In addition, city courts shall not have jurisdiction in tutorship, curatorship, emancipation, and partition proceedings.
Acts 1986, No. 156, §1; Acts 1986, No. 152, §2, eff. June 28, 1986; Acts 1988, No. 670, §1; Acts 1990, No. 361, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1991; Acts 2011, No. 228, §1; Acts 2020, No. 205, §3, eff. June 11, 2020.
{{NOTE: SEE ACTS 1986, NO. 152, §3.}}
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