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Dear Mr. Abadie:

This office is in receipt of your opinion request where you ask us to consider whether a clerk of court may cancel the inscription of a donation of immoveable property from the conveyance records of the parish and if so, what is the proper procedure to cancel the inscription.

Per your request, you advise us that clerks of court have traditionally been given the power to cancel inscriptions in the mortgage records, but because this inscription is in the conveyance records, you are unsure if a clerk can cancel it. You also advise us that a notice of seizure of the property was…