place of re

Sec. 3189. All sales of lands made by any sheriff or other officer, by virtue of any execution; all marriage contracts made Manner and within this State tending in anywise to convey, transfer, assure, or cording certain affect the estates of the parties, or being only intended to ascer- acts. tain the dotal rights of the wife, or that her marriage portion is liable to some reserves, or stipulated to be paraphernalia, or extra dotal property; all final judgments shall be recorded as follows, to wit: where lands or other immovable property are to be affected, the recording shall be in the parish where the lands or other immovable estates shall be situate.

all not re

Said acts to be

And all sales, contracts and judgments, which shall not be so recorded, shall be utterly null and void, except between the parties corded. thereto. The recording may be made at any time, but shall only affect third persons from the time of the recording.

C. C. 2265, 2266; D. Sec. 3617.

When said rec

ord affects third persons.

RECUSATION.

Being members of civil or

porations not

Sec. 3190. In all civil and criminal causes in which the State, the parishes, or political or religious corporations are interested, religious cor- it shall not be sufficient cause to challenge the judge or justices of cause for chal- the peace who may have cognizance of the case, nor the sheriff nor the executive officer, nor any of the jurors who are called on to serve in the cause, to allege that they are citizens or inhabitants of the State or of the parishes, or members of the said political or religious corporations, or that they pay any State, parish or city

lenge.

Criminal cases

in which

judges may be recused.

witness no

cause of recusation.

tax.

C. P. 337-342; D. Sec. 1067, 1967. Act 1855, p. 335.

Sec. 3191. Any judge may be recused or may recuse himself in criminal cases, if said judge be connected by blood or marriage with any person charged with any offense against the laws of the State.

D. Sec. 1067, 1947. Act 1858, p. 218.

Sec. 3192. The fourth paragraph of the three hundred and Judge being a thirty-eighth article of the Code of Practice is repealed; and no judge shall be rendered incompetent to sit on trial of any cause now pending, or which may hereafter be instituted in any of the courts of this State, in consequence of his being a material witness in the case, in favor of either party; his being a witness shall no longer be a cause of recusation.

Judges of

supreme and other courts

C. P. 547; D. Sec. 1961, 3967. Act 1828, p. 152, § 5.

Sec. 3193. Whenever, in any case before the supreme court, or any other court having appellate jurisdiction, the judgment appealed from shall have been rendered, in the first instance, by when to recuse any judge of the said appellate court, at a time when he was a judge of the court of original jurisdiction, it shall be the duty of said judge ex officio to recuse himself, without its being necessary that a motion be made to that effect by any of the parties.

themselves.

D. Sec. 1922. Act 1850, p. 28.

trict judges, in

ish judges.

Sec. 3194. The district judges of the several judicial districts of this State, or the parish judge of any adjoining parish, shall, in Powers of disthe absence of the parish judges from their respective parishes, or absence or recwhen the parish judge is interested, or from any cause is recused usation of paror can not act, grant all orders of any and every kind in cases of any kind in the parish courts which might have been granted by the parish judge if not absent or recused, which absence or recusation must be made to appear by the affidavit of the party or his attorney, who applies for such orders.

Act 1869, p. 63.

ish judges in

district judges.

Sec. 3195. The several parish judges shall have the power, in the absence of the district judge from the several parishes, or Powers of parwhen he is interested, to act in cases before the district court in absence of granting orders of arrest, attachment, sequestration, provisional recusation of seizures and orders of seizure and sale; to issue writs of possession and distringas; to grant orders setting aside sequestrations, and fixing the amount of the bonds therefor; to grant injunctions in all cases where it is legal to do so; to grant appeals and fix the amount of bonds thereof when the same is not fixed by law; to issue commissions to take testimony of witnesses residing out of the parish, where it is made to appear the witness is about to depart, or where, from any other cause, the party desiring his testimony may have cause to apprehend that he will otherwise be deprived of it; and to appoint a commissioner to execute the same; and to fix the return day thereof; and to appoint tutors or curators ad hoc in all cases; and parish judges are empowered to grant these orders or writs when application is made to them in proper form according to the laws of this State therefor, and when the party or his attorney makes oath that the district judge is absent from the parish, or that, being interested, he is unable to give the orders.

Act 1868, p. 12.

REDHIBITION.

Suits, where to be brought.

Sec. 3196. All suits for the redhibitory defects of animals must be instituted within two months after the date of the sale thereof.

D. Sec. 2815. Act 1823, p. 160, § 22.

tration to be

each parish.

Sec. 3197. The governor of the State shall, at least two months previous to any general election, appoint in each parish of the General superState one supervisor of registration, to whom the clerk of the visor of regiscourt shall deliver the books of registration delivered to him by appointed in the last supervisors of registration, and he shall receive the same and strike from them the names of the voters who have died or left the parish, or become ineligible for any legal cause, and add thereto the names of all those who have removed into the parish since the last registration, or who were not then registered, and those who have since come of age, and generally perfect the registration of the parish, and he shall close such registration nine days before the said general election and furnish to the commissioners of election of each voting place or poll copies of the registered voters of their precinct, and within ten days after such general election such supervisor shall redeliver to the clerks of the courts the books of registration, with all the additions and amendments made thereto, as herein provided.

D. Sec. 1678. Act 1868, p. 65. Act 1874, No. 155.