Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:384

  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.

A mortgage made by any of the companies shall bind the road, its warehouses, depots, water stations, locomotives, and other appurtenances in the several parishes by the recordation of an abstract of the mortgage showing the book number, volume number, dates, amounts of mortgage, parties to the mortgage and all other necessary information relative to the mortgage, in each parish.  This mortgage shall be recorded in the parish where the company has its domicile or principal office and said mortgage need not be reinscribed to continue it in force.

Amended by Acts 1977, No. 98, §1.