Terms Used In Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure 933

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.

A.  If the dilatory exception pleading want of amicable demand is sustained, the judgment shall impose all court costs upon the plaintiff.  If the dilatory exception pleading prematurity is sustained, the premature action, claim, demand, issue or theory shall be dismissed.

B.  When the grounds of the other objections pleaded in the dilatory exception may be removed by amendment of the petition or other action by plaintiff, the judgment sustaining the exception shall order plaintiff to remove them within the delay allowed by the court; and the action, claim, demand, issue or theory subject to the exception shall be dismissed only for a noncompliance with this order.

Acts 2003, No. 545, §1.