If the former owner of the extinguished or expired mineral right fails to furnish the required act within thirty days of receipt of the demand or if the former lessee of a mineral lease fails to record the required act within ninety days of its extinguishment prior to the expiration of its primary term, he is liable to the person in whose favor the right or the lease has been extinguished or expired for all damages resulting therefrom and for a reasonable attorney's fee incurred in bringing suit.
La. R.S. 31:207
Effect of failure to furnish act evidencing extinction or expiration of right; mineral lease
Amended by Acts 1981, No. 612, §1; Acts 1982, No. 358, §1, eff
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