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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:2315"
article_number: "2315"
status: active
heading: "Liability for acts causing damages"
breadcrumb: "Book III › Title V › Chapter 3"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=109369"
acts_citations_raw: "Amended by Acts 1884, No. 71; Acts 1908, No. 120, §1; Acts 1918, No. 159, §1; Acts 1932, No. 159, §1; Acts 1948, No. 333, §1; Acts 1960, No. 30, §1; Acts 1982, No. 202, §1; Acts 1984, No. 397, §1; Acts 1986, No. 211, §1; Acts 1999, No. 989, §1, eff. July 9, 1999; Acts 2001, No. 478, §1."
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    act_number: 159
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  - act_year: 1932
    act_number: 159
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  - act_year: 1948
    act_number: 333
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  - act_year: 1960
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  - act_year: 1982
    act_number: 202
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  - act_year: 1984
    act_number: 397
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  - act_year: 1986
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  - act_year: 1999
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  - act_year: 2001
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# Art. 2315. Liability for acts causing damages

A. Every act whatever of man that causes damage to another obliges him by whose fault it happened to repair it.

B. Damages may include loss of consortium, service, and society, and shall be recoverable by the same respective categories of persons who would have had a cause of action for wrongful death of an injured person. Damages do not include costs for future medical treatment, services, surveillance, or procedures of any kind unless such treatment, services, surveillance, or procedures are directly related to a manifest physical or mental injury or disease. Damages shall include any sales taxes paid by the owner on the repair or replacement of the property damaged.