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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:655"
article_number: "655"
status: active
heading: "Natural drainage"
breadcrumb: "Book II › Title IV › Chapter 2"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=110849"
acts_citations_raw: "Acts 1977, No. 514, §1; Acts 2017, No. 105, §1, eff. June 12, 2017."
acts_citations:
  - act_year: 1977
    act_number: 514
    section: 1
    role: enactment
  - act_year: 2017
    act_number: 105
    section: 1
    effective_date: 2017-06-12
    role: amendment
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# Art. 655. Natural drainage

An estate situated below is the servient estate and is bound to receive the surface waters that flow naturally from a dominant estate situated above unless an act of man has created the flow.