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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:3463"
article_number: "3463"
status: active
heading: "Duration of interruption; abandonment or discontinuance of suit"
breadcrumb: "Book III › Title XXIV › Chapter 2 › Section 1"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=110486"
acts_citations_raw: "Acts 1982, No. 187, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1983; Acts 1999, No. 1263, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2000; Acts 2018, No. 443, §1; Acts 2021, No. 414, §1."
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    act_number: 187
    section: 1
    effective_date: 1983-01-01
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  - act_year: 1999
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  - act_year: 2018
    act_number: 443
    section: 1
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  - act_year: 2021
    act_number: 414
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# Art. 3463. Duration of interruption; abandonment or discontinuance of suit

A. An interruption of prescription resulting from the filing of a suit in a competent court and in the proper venue or from service of process within the prescriptive period continues as long as the suit is pending.

B. Interruption is considered never to have occurred if the plaintiff abandons the suit, voluntarily dismisses the suit at any time either before the defendant has made any appearance of record or thereafter, or fails to prosecute the suit at the trial. The dismissal of a suit pursuant to a compromise does not constitute a voluntary dismissal.