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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:5601

  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.

The following actions are prescribed by one year:

(1)  That for damages for the injury to or destruction of or the profits lost on a crop, in whole or in part, reckoning from the day the act occurred, or from the day the cause ceased if the cause was a continuing one.

(2)  That for damages for the value of the whole or a portion of a crop contracted to be sold, resulting from the non-delivery or non-acceptance of the crops, reckoning from the day by which the crops were to have been delivered or accepted, or from the last day of the period, if the crops were to have been delivered or accepted over a period.