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Code · Louisiana · Title 34 — Navigation and Shipping

RS 34:861

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RS 34:861
CHAPTER 5. SEAMEN
§861. Debts recoverable from seamen
No keeper of a public or lodging house for seamen shall, at any time, recover from a seaman any debt exceeding one dollar, and no other person shall recover from any seaman a debt exceeding one dollar, after he has signed articles to proceed to sea, until the voyage for which he shipped is ended.
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