23 La. Ann. 261 | La. | 1871
Isaac Levy claims to be paid out of the proceeds of the sale of property mortgaged to defendant, on the ground that his mortgage is superior in rank to that of the seizing creditor.
The mortgage, under which Levy claims, originally granted to Gabriel L. Fusilier and other creditors of J. A. Frere, was recorded on the ninth day of September, 1846, and an act affirmative of and supplemental to the original act was inscribed in the book of mortgages on the ninth of September, 1850, and the original act of mortgage; was reinseribed on the eighth day of November, 1865.
The mortgage under which S. Theriat, defendant, claims was recorded on the fourth of February, 1861, and reinscribed on the eighteenth of April, 1870.
Hnder this state of facts it would seem clear that the plaintiff’s mort-' gage had perempted. “The effect of the inscription of mortgages., ceases even against the co. .racting parties, if the inscriptions have not been renewed before the expiration of ten years, in the manner in which they were first made.” C. C. 3369. And it is the “duty of the-Recorder of Mortgages, or person acting as such, to cancel and erase„ on the simple application in writing to that effect, by the owner, creditor of the owner, or other party interested, all inscriptions of mortgages which have existed or may exist on the records for a period exceeding ten years, without a renewal of such inscriptions,” etc. Acts of 1843; Revised Statutes, sec. 450,
By the failure to reinscribo his mortgage within ten years after its recordation the plaintiff lost his rank, and the mortgage of the defendant took precedence over it. 21 An. 204; 21 An. 427; 22 An. 402. *
It is therefore ordered that the judgment of the lower court be affirmed, with costs of appeal.