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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:1270"
article_number: "1270"
status: active
heading: "Voluntary alienation or negligent loss of immovables subject to collation."
breadcrumb: "Book III › Title I › Chapter 11 › Section 3"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=108620"
acts_citations_raw: "Amended by Acts 1981, No. 739, §1."
acts_citations:
  - act_year: 1981
    act_number: 739
    section: 1
    role: enactment
schema_version: "1.0.0"
---

# Art. 1270. Voluntary alienation or negligent loss of immovables subject to collation.

If the donee has voluntarily alienated the immovable property which has been given him, or if he has permitted it to be seized and sold for the payment of his debts, or if it has been destroyed by his fault or negligence, he shall not be the less bound to make the collation of it, according to the value which the immovable would have had at the time of the opening of the succession, deducting expenses, as is provided in the foregoing Article.