Article 2242Classification of Credits

With reference to specific immovable

property and real rights of the debtor, the following

claims, mortgages and liens shall be preferred, and shall

constitute an encumbrance on the immovable or real

right:

(1) Taxes due upon the land or building;

(2) For the unpaid price of real property sold, upon the

immovable sold;

(3) Claims of laborers, masons, mechanics and other

workmen, as well as of architects, engineers and

contractors, engaged in the construction, reconstruction

or repair of buildings, canals or other works, upon said

buildings, canals or other works;

(4) Claims of furnishers of materials used in the

construction, reconstruction, or repair of buildings, canals

or other works, upon said buildings, canals or other works;

(5) Mortgage credits recorded in the Registry of Property,

upon the real estate mortgaged;

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(6) Expenses for the preservation or improvement of real

property when the law authorizes reimbursement, upon

the immovable preserved or improved;

(7) Credits annotated in the Registry of Property, in virtue

of a judicial order, by attachments or executions, upon

the property affected, and only as to later credits;

(8) Claims of co-heirs for warranty in the partition of an

immovable among them, upon the real property thus

divided;

(9) Claims of donors or real property for pecuniary

charges or other conditions imposed upon the donee,

upon the immovable donated;

(10) Credits of insurers, upon the property insured, for the

insurance premium for two years. (1923a)