Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:504

  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • Inter vivos: Transfer of property from one living person to another living person.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.

A.  An unincorporated association is a legal entity separate from its members for the purposes of acquiring, holding, encumbering, donating and otherwise transferring immovable and movable property.

B.  An unincorporated association in its name may acquire, hold, mortgage, hypothecate, encumber, donate, or otherwise transfer its interest in immovable or movable property.

C.  An unincorporated association may be a beneficiary of a trust and has the capacity to receive donations inter vivos and mortis causa.

Renumbered from R.S.1950, §12:404 by Acts 1968, No. 105, §3, eff. Jan. 1, 1969; Acts 1985, No. 907, §1; Acts 2008, No. 877, §1.

NOTE:  Repealed by Acts 1985, No. 270, §1; however, superceded and reenacted by Acts 1985, No. 907, §2.