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Louisiana's Justice of the Peace: Civil Code of the State of Louisiana 1870

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Civil Code of the State of Louisiana 1870

The Civil code of the State of Louisiana. via Hathi Trust

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Book I: Of Persons: Title IV Of Husband and Wife

ART. 130.-A married woman having a mortgage or privilege on the property of her husband, may appoint one or more agents, with power in her behalf during her temporary or permanent absence from the State to intervene in any contract of mortgage or sale made by the husband, and sign in her behalf such renunciation of said mortgage or privilege as the wife herself might do if personally present, and such power may be either general or special, and may be executed in the United States before any Judge or Justice of the Peace, or Notary, or Commissioners of this State, and in foreign countries before any Consul, Vice Consul, or Consular or Commercial Agent of the United States.

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Book I: Of Persons: Title VIII Of Minors, of Their Tutorship and Emancipation

AR. 285-(308.) The family meeting shall be held before the Recorder of the Parish, a justice of the peace, or notary public appointed by the judge for the purpose. It shall be called for a fixed day and hour, by citations delivered at least three days before the day appointed for the meeting.

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Book III: Of the Different Modes of Acquiring the Ownership of Things: Title I Of Successions

ART. 1077-[1070.] The judge may, either ex-officio or at the request of the parties, order the affixing of the seals. The seals are affixed by the Recorder of the parish, a Notary Public, or a Justice of the Peace.

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Book III: Of the Different Modes of Acquiring the Ownership of Things: Title IX Of Lease

ART. 2713-(2683.) When the lessor has given notice to the lessee in the manner directed by law, to quit the property, and the lessee persists in remaining on it, the lessor may have him summoned before a Judge or a Justice of the Peace, and condemned to depart; and if, three days after notice of the judgment he has not obeyed, the Judge or Justice of the Peace may order that he shall be expelled and that the property shall be cleared by the Sheriff or Constable, at his expense. The mode of proceeding in such cases is provided for by special laws.

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Book III: Of the Different Modes of Acquiring the Ownership of Things: Title XXII Of Mortgages

Art. 3389-[3352.] These registers shall be numbered at each page and signed ne varietur on the first and last page, by one of the Judges or a justice of the peace for the parish of Orleans.