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Four parties must execute the same authentic act. Two can appear in Lafayette this week, while the other two can appear in Shreveport next week. Select the execution plan that can preserve authentic form.
Correct answer: C - Each party may sign in a separate session before a notary and two witnesses; different officers and witnesses may be used if all sign the act.
A Louisiana remote online notary is asked to take the acknowledgment of a privately signed, one-year residential lease. The lease need not be an authentic act, and every statutory identity, platform, location, and recording requirement can be met. What is the proper response?
Correct answer: A - The acknowledgment may be performed remotely because the instrument is not in a prohibited class.
At a cash-sale signing, an older owner answers routine questions accurately. After her nephew leaves the room, she quietly says, "I do not want to sell, but he told me I have no choice." The nephew returns and demands that the notary finish. What should the notary do?
Correct answer: D - Decline to notarize because the owner's voluntary consent has not been established.
A judgment of limited interdiction places management and disposition of Jordan's immovable property under a curator but does not restrict movable-property transactions. Jordan, acting without the curator, agrees to buy a used automobile for cash. Jordan's capacity for this purchase is best described as:
Correct answer: B - Retained, because the judgment did not restrict this category of transaction.
A procuration authorizes a mandatary to "manage all of my affairs, collect income, pay expenses, and sign documents for me." It says nothing about selling, acquiring, mortgaging, or leasing property. The mandatary presents a deed selling the principal's land. What is the controlling defect?
Correct answer: B - The procuration does not expressly authorize alienation of the property.
A receiving agency requires a sworn affidavit. The affiant signed the statement yesterday and today personally appears and confirms the signature, but refuses to swear or affirm that the statement is true. The document contains a jurat reading "sworn to and subscribed before me." How should the notary proceed?
Correct answer: D - Do not complete it; a jurat requires an oath or affirmation and sworn execution before the notary.
For fourteen years, a possessor has openly and continuously occupied a private tract as owner. From the outset, the possessor knew that no deed or other just title existed. The fourteen years presently support which conclusion?
Correct answer: A - The ten-year route fails, and the thirty-year route has not yet accrued.
Three siblings each own an undivided one-third interest in an unpartitioned 90-acre tract. One sibling wants to convey the exclusive northern 30 acres without the others' consent. What can that sibling alienate alone?
Correct answer: C - The sibling's undivided one-third share in the entire tract.
A seller executes a valid deed conveying the same Louisiana tract first to Avery and later to Blair. Avery never records. Blair records the later deed in the proper parish conveyance records and qualifies as a third person under the registry rules. The registry rule produces which outcome?
Correct answer: C - Avery's unrecorded transfer is without effect as to Blair.
In a voluntary sale not made by court order, a seller conveys a corporeal immovable for $110,000 when its fair market value at the time of sale is $240,000. Eight months later, the seller seeks relief for lesion beyond moiety. The seller's position is best characterized as:
Correct answer: B - Potentially actionable, because the price is below one-half of value and the claim is timely.
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