Louisiana prescriptive easement law

La. Civ. Code arts. 740-742, 3486

What actually decides a claim here

• •Louisiana uses servitudes and acquisitive prescription: thirty years without title, or ten years in good faith with just title.
• •Only apparent and continuous servitudes — visible works such as a road or a drain — can be acquired by prescription.

Related terms

General educational reference only. Prescription periods and their exceptions change, and several states set the period by case law rather than by statute. Read the linked official code and consult a licensed attorney in that state before relying on any of it.