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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:1559"
article_number: "1559"
status: active
heading: "Revocation for ingratitude, effect on alienations, leases, or encumbrances"
breadcrumb: "Book III › Title II › Chapter 5 › Section 3"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=108883"
acts_citations_raw: "Acts 2008, No. 204, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2009."
acts_citations:
  - act_year: 2008
    act_number: 204
    section: 1
    effective_date: 2009-01-01
    role: enactment
schema_version: "1.0.0"
---

# Art. 1559. Revocation for ingratitude, effect on alienations, leases, or encumbrances

Revocation for ingratitude does not affect an alienation, lease, or encumbrance made by the donee prior to the filing of the action to revoke. When an alienation, lease, or encumbrance is made after the filing of the action and the thing given is movable, the alienation, lease, or encumbrance is effective against the donor only when it is an onerous transaction made in good faith by the transferee, lessee, or creditor. When an alienation, lease, or encumbrance is made after the filing of the action and the thing given is immovable, the effect of the action to revoke is governed by the law of registry.