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Portrait of William Burnham Woods William Burnham Woods Bondurant v. Watson — Opinion of the Court

In the case of Watson v. Bondurant (30 La. Ann. 1, pt. 1) , the same court held that no mortgage has any effect as to third persons unless recorded; and, save in the single case of a minor's mortgage on the property of his tutor, every mortgage ceases to have effect, except as to the parties to it, unless reinscribed within ten years from the date of its original inscription, and that neither the existence of the pact de non alienando in a mortgage, nor the pendency of a suit to foreclose the same, obviates the necessity of its inscription or reinscription.
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