Louisiana Revised Statutes 31:205 – When transfer, assignment, or termination of mortgage or pledge effective against parties dealing with mortgagee or pledgee
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 31:205
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
- Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
- person: includes a body of persons, whether incorporated or not. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 1:10
Notwithstanding any other knowledge or notice, no transfer, assignment, or termination of the right of a mortgagee or pledgee under a mortgage or pledge permitted by these articles shall be binding upon any person dealing with the mortgagee or pledgee until thirty days after there has actually been delivered to him a certified or duplicate original copy of the act evidencing the transfer or assignment or proper evidence of the cancellation of the mortgage or pledge from the mortgage records. Any payments made to the mortgagee or pledgee whose rights have been transferred or terminated shall discharge the person paying them in the amount thereof. The mortgagee or pledgee shall hold any amounts so paid for the account of the person properly entitled to receive them.
Acts 1974, No. 50, §205, eff. Jan. 1, 1975.