The Louisiana Civil Code provides an implied warranty for all things sold. Specifically, a seller warrants the buyer against all redhibitory vices and defects. A defect is “redhibitory” if it renders the item so useless or inconvenient that a buyer would not have purchased it or would have purchased it for a lesser price. Louisiana does not have warranty statutes which are specific to marine products. The following outline is an overview of Louisiana’s warranty statutes in connection with marine products such as boats, personal watercraft, and outboard motors.
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Louisiana State Bar Provides Free Research Tool
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As of today, if you log on to the State Bar’s website at www.lsba.org you can search for cases in all 50 states and all federal cases for free. The state bar has entered a contract with Fastcase (a business run by Baton Rouge attorney Ed Walter’s son, Ed, Jr.). You can run Westlaw/Lexis type…