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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:494"
article_number: "494"
status: active
heading: "Constructions by landowner with materials of another."
breadcrumb: "Book II › Title II › Chapter 2 › Section 2"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=110675"
acts_citations_raw: "Acts 1979, No. 180, §1."
acts_citations:
  - act_year: 1979
    act_number: 180
    section: 1
    role: enactment
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---

# Art. 494. Constructions by landowner with materials of another.

When the owner of an immovable makes on it constructions, plantings, or works with materials of another, he may retain them, regardless of his good or bad faith, on reimbursing the owner of the materials their current value and repairing the injury that he may have caused to him.