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Dear Mr. Durant:

You have requested an opinion of this Office as to what becomes of a parish boundary line when that line is described as following a waterway that changes its course. The jurisprudence related to this issue makes a distinction between sudden changes in the course of a water body and those changes that occur slowly and imperceptibly.

The Louisiana Supreme Court has spoken directly to the issue of boundary disputes when sudden changes in a water course occur and we herein adopt its conclusions as our own. In Parish of Caddo v. Parish ofBossier, 113 So. 882 (La. 1927), the Supreme…