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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:449"
article_number: "449"
status: active
heading: "Common things."
breadcrumb: "Book II › Title I › Chapter 1 › Section 1"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=110623"
acts_citations_raw: "Acts 1978, No. 728, §1."
acts_citations:
  - act_year: 1978
    act_number: 728
    section: 1
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---

# Art. 449. Common things.

Common things may not be owned by anyone. They are such as the air and the high seas that may be freely used by everyone conformably with the use for which nature has intended them.