Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 41:10

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • person: includes a body of persons, whether incorporated or not. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 1:10

The commissioner shall decide all conflicting claims of preference of right to any land granted to the state by acts of congress.  After they have been decided by the commissioner and after he has assessed the land to the person first locating or settling thereon, the claimant aggrieved by the decision shall have the right, within six months after the decision of the commissioner, to appeal to the Nineteenth Judicial District Court.

Acts 1989, No. 282, §4, eff. June 27, 1989.

{{NOTE:  SEE ACTS 1989, NO. 282, §5.}}