Young v. City Bank of New Orleans

The conclusion at which we have arrived on one of the points presented in this case, renders it unnecessary to inquire into the many conflicting demands of the parties litigant.

The mortgage on which the order of seizure was granted, was executed on the 8th May, 1888, and recorded on the 10th of May, of the same year; and it does not appear that it has ever been reinscribed.

Article 3,333 of the Civil Code provides that “ The registry preserves the evidence of mortgages and privileges, during ten years, reckoning from the day of their date: their effect ceases, even against the contracting…