Article 2241Classification of Credits

With reference to specific movable property

of the debtor, the following claims or liens shall be

preferred:

(1) Duties, taxes and fees due thereon to the State or any

subdivision thereof;

(2) Claims arising from misappropriation, breach of trust,

or malfeasance by public officials committed in the

performance of their duties, on the movables, money or

securities obtained by them;

(3) Claims for the unpaid price of movables sold, on said

movables, so long as they are in the possession of the

debtor, up to the value of the same; and if the movable

has been resold by the debtor and the price is still unpaid,

the lien may be enforced on the price; this right is not lost

by the immobilization of the thing by destination,

provided it has not lost its form, substance and identity;

neither is the right lost by the sale of the thing together

with other property for a lump sum, when the price

thereof can be determined proportionally;

(4) Credits guaranteed with a pledge so long as the

things pledged are in the hands of the creditor, or those

guaranteed by a chattel mortgage, upon the things

pledged or mortgaged, up to the value thereof;

(5) Credits for the making, repair, safekeeping or

preservation of personal property, on the movable thus

made, repaired, kept or possessed;

(6) Claims for laborers' wages, on the goods

manufactured or the work done;

(7) For expenses of salvage, upon the goods salvaged;

(8) Credits between the landlord and the tenant, arising

from the contract of tenancy on shares, on the share of

each in the fruits or harvest;

(9) Credits for transportation, upon the goods carried, for

the price of the contract and incidental expenses, until

their delivery and for thirty days thereafter;

(10) Credits for lodging and supplies usually furnished to

travellers by hotel keepers, on the movables belonging to

the guest as long as such movables are in the hotel, but

not for money loaned to the guests;

(11) Credits for seeds and expenses for cultivation and

harvest advanced to the debtor, upon the fruits

harvested;

(12) Credits for rent for one year, upon the personal

property of the lessee existing on the immovable leased

and on the fruits of the same, but not on money or

instruments of credit;

(13) Claims in favor of the depositor if the depositary has

wrongfully sold the thing deposited, upon the price of the

sale.

In the foregoing cases, if the movables to which the lien

or preference attaches have been wrongfully taken, the

creditor may demand them from any possessor, within

thirty days from the unlawful seizure. (1922a)