§2743. Certificate of encumbrances; procedure; content; liability
A. The recorder shall deliver a certificate of encumbrances to any person who requests it in writing.
B. The certificate shall list all the uncancelled mortgages and instruments evidencing privileges, in the order of their recordation, that appear in the mortgage records and that identify the persons designated in the request as the mortgagor or obligor of the debt secured by the privilege, unless the recorder is supplied with evidence satisfactory to him that such instruments are in fact not those of the person in whose name the certificate is sought.
C.(1) If no uncancelled mortgage or instrument evidencing a privilege exists, the certificate shall declare that fact.
(2) The certificate shall not list mortgages or privileges arising from the recordation of the ad valorem tax rolls nor shall it list the notices of tax sales filed pursuant to R.S. 47:2180.
D.(1) The recorder is not liable personally or in his official capacity for listing in his certificate an encumbrance in the name of a person who reasonably may be construed to be the person in whose name the certificate is sought.
(2) The recorder is liable in his official capacity for any loss caused by the failure to list a mortgage or privilege in the certificate or by listing a mortgage or privilege that has been cancelled from his records unless the error proceeds from a want of exactness in the description of the property or the name of the mortgagor or obligor of the debt secured by the privilege specifically given to the recorder in the request.
§2743. Certificate of encumbrances; procedure; content; liability
A. The recorder shall deliver a certificate of encumbrances to any person who requests it in writing.
B. The certificate shall list all the uncancelled mortgages and instruments evidencing privileges, in the order of their recordation, that appear in the mortgage records and that identify the persons designated in the request as the mortgagor or obligor of the debt secured by the privilege, unless the recorder is supplied with evidence satisfactory to him that such instruments are in fact not those of the person in whose name the certificate is sought.
C.(1) If no uncancelled mortgage or instrument evidencing a privilege exists, the certificate shall declare that fact.
(2) The certificate shall not list mortgages or privileges arising from the recordation of the ad valorem tax rolls nor shall it list the notices of tax sales filed pursuant to R.S. 47:2180.
D.(1) The recorder is not liable personally or in his official capacity for listing in his certificate an encumbrance in the name of a person who reasonably may be construed to be the person in whose name the certificate is sought.
(2) The recorder is liable in his official capacity for any loss caused by the failure to list a mortgage or privilege in the certificate or by listing a mortgage or privilege that has been cancelled from his records unless the error proceeds from a want of exactness in the description of the property or the name of the mortgagor or obligor of the debt secured by the privilege specifically given to the recorder in the request.
§2743. Certificate of encumbrances; procedure; content; liability
A. The recorder shall deliver a certificate of encumbrances to any person who requests it in writing.
B. The certificate shall list all the uncancelled mortgages and instruments evidencing privileges, in the order of their recordation, that appear in the mortgage records and that identify the persons designated in the request as the mortgagor or obligor of the debt secured by the privilege, unless the recorder is supplied with evidence satisfactory to him that such instruments are in fact not those of the person in whose name the certificate is sought.
C.(1) If no uncancelled mortgage or instrument evidencing a privilege exists, the certificate shall declare that fact.
(2) The certificate shall not list mortgages or privileges arising from the recordation of the ad valorem tax rolls nor shall it list the notices of tax sales filed pursuant to R.S. 47:2180.
D.(1) The recorder is not liable personally or in his official capacity for listing in his certificate an encumbrance in the name of a person who reasonably may be construed to be the person in whose name the certificate is sought.
(2) The recorder is liable in his official capacity for any loss caused by the failure to list a mortgage or privilege in the certificate or by listing a mortgage or privilege that has been cancelled from his records unless the error proceeds from a want of exactness in the description of the property or the name of the mortgagor or obligor of the debt secured by the privilege specifically given to the recorder in the request.
