BOOK II THINGS AND THE DIFFERENT MODIFICATIONS OF OWNERSHIP TITLE I–THINGS CHAPTER 1–DIVISION OF THINGS SECTION 1–GENERAL PRINCIPLES Art. 448. Division of things. Things are divided into common, public, and private; corporeals and incorporeals; and movables and immovables. Acts 1978, No. 728, §1.
Art. 449. Common things. Common things may not be owned by anyone. They are such as the air and the high seas that may be freely used by everyone conformably with the use for which nature has intended them. Acts 1978, No. 728, §1.
Art. 450. Public things. Public things are owned by the state or its political subdivisions in their capacity as public persons. Public things that belong to the state are such as running waters, the waters and bottoms of natural navigable water bodies, the territorial sea, and the seashore. Public things that may belong to political […]
Art. 451. Seashore. Seashore is the space of land over which the waters of the sea spread in the highest tide during the winter season. Acts 1978, No. 728, §1.
Art. 452. Public things and common things subject to public use. Public things and common things are subject to public use in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. Everyone has the right to fish in the rivers, ports, roadsteads, and harbors, and the right to land on the seashore, to fish, to shelter himself, to […]
Art. 453. Private things. Private things are owned by individuals, other private persons, and by the state or its political subdivisions in their capacity as private persons. Acts 1978, No. 728, §1.
Art. 454. Freedom of disposition by private persons. Owners of private things may freely dispose of them under modifications established by law. Acts 1978, No. 728, §1.
Art. 455. Private things subject to public use. Private things may be subject to public use in accordance with law or by dedication. Acts 1978, No. 728. §1.
Art. 456. Banks of navigable rivers or streams. The banks of navigable rivers or streams are private things that are subject to public use. The bank of a navigable river or stream is the land lying between the ordinary low and the ordinary high stage of the water. Nevertheless, when there is a levee in […]
Art. 457. Roads; public or private. A road may be either public or private. A public road is one that is subject to public use. The public may own the land on which the road is built or merely have the right to use it. A private road is one that is not subject to […]
Art. 458. Works obstructing the public use. Works built without lawful permit on public things, including the sea, the seashore, and the bottom of natural navigable waters, or on the banks of navigable rivers, that obstruct the public use may be removed at the expense of the persons who built or own them at the […]
Art. 459. Building encroaching on public way. A building that merely encroaches on a public way without preventing its use, and which cannot be removed without causing substantial damage to its owner, shall be permitted to remain. If it is demolished from any cause, the owner shall be bound to restore to the public the […]
Art. 460. Construction of navigation facilities on public places by port commissions or municipalities. Port commissions of the state, or in the absence of port commissions having jurisdiction, municipalities may, within the limits of their respective jurisdictions, construct and maintain on public places, in beds of natural navigable water bodies, and on their banks or […]
Art. 461. Corporeals and incorporeals. Corporeals are things that have a body, whether animate or inanimate, and can be felt or touched. Incorporeals are things that have no body, but are comprehended by the understanding, such as the rights of inheritance, servitudes, obligations, and right of intellectual property. Acts 1978, No. 728, §1.
