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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:1881

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.

Any district judge, having jurisdiction in the parish where any parish or ward officer or other interested party applies for the cancellation of the parish or ward officer’s official bond, shall order the recorder of mortgages to cancel the bond with security and mortgages furnished by the officer only in the event that the officer has resigned or died or been dismissed from office, or his office has expired by limitation.