Louisiana Revised Statutes & Codes

La. Rev. Stat. § 1:2 (2026)

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§2. Revised Statutes not retroactive

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 198 cases (16 in the last 5 years), 1970–2026 · leading case: MJ Farms, Ltd. v. Exxon Mobil Corp., 998 So. 2d 16 (La. 2008).
MJ Farms, Ltd. v. Exxon Mobil Corp., 998 So. 2d 16 (La. 2008). · cites it 10× “A related statute, La.Rev.Stat. § 1:2, provides: No Section of the Revised Statutes is retroactive unless it is expressly so stated.”
St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co. v. Smith, 609 So. 2d 809 (La. 1992). · cites it 8× “As the legislature is free, within constitutional confines, [11] to give its enactments retrospective effect, the question of the temporal effect to be given an enactment is, in the first instance, one of statutory construction.”
Church Mut. Ins. Co. v. Dardar, 145 So. 3d 271 (La. 2014). · cites it 3× “R.S. 1:2: “No Section of the Revised Statutes is retroactive unless it is expressly so stated.”
Bourgeois v. AP Green Indus., Inc., 783 So. 2d 1251 (La. 2001). · cites it 3× “After the second hearing, the trial court signed a judgment declaring Act 989 unconstitutional as it applies to plaintiffs' case for the reasons assigned in open court on October 20, 1999. [5] La. Const. art. V, § 5(D) provides that a case shall be appealable to the supreme…”
Sher v. Lafayette Ins. Co., 988 So. 2d 186 (La. 2008). · cites it 2× “A related statute, R.S. 1:2, provides: No Section of the Revised Statutes is retroactive unless it is expressly so stated.”
Lakeland Anesth., Inc. v. United Health. of La., 871 So. 2d 380 (La. Ct. App. 2004). · cites it 3× “Edmondson, Domke on Commercial Arbitration § 1:2 (3rd ed. 2003) ("Domke"). A corollary of the fact that arbitration agreements are contracts is that courts must enforce arbitration agreements according to their terms.”
State v. Gordon, 146 So. 3d 758 (La. Ct. App. 2014). · cites it 5× “441, § 1, eff. June 25, 2008. The defendant’s two convictions in the instant case for aggravated rape were for offenses allegedly committed in 1996 and 1997, respectively.”
Yamaha Motor Corp. USA v. Bonfanti Indus., Inc., 589 So. 2d 575 (La. Ct. App. 1991). · cites it 7× “R.S. 1:2 provides as follows: No Section of the Revised Statutes is retroactive unless it is expressly so stated.”
Commonwealth v. Story, 440 A.2d 488 (Pa. 1981). · cites it 4× “Therefore, these acts are governed by the original legislative intention that criminal code provisions shall not apply to a crime committed before their effective date, La.R.S. 14-142,[ [3] ] and the legislature's express stipulation that no section of the Revised Statutes is…”
Unwired Telecom v. Par. of Calcasieu, 903 So. 2d 392 (La. 2005). · cites it 2× “§ 1:2 provides: No section of the Revised Statutes is retroactive unless it is expressly so stated.”
Krebs, Lasalle, Lemieux Consultants, Inc. v. G.E.C., Inc., 197 So. 3d 829 (La. Ct. App. 2016). · cites it 3× “R.S. 1:2 provides that “No section of the Revised Statutes is retroactive unless it is expressly so stated.”
Morial v. Smith & Wesson Corp., 785 So. 2d 1 (La. 2001). · cites it 2× “R.S. 1:2, provides: No Section of the Revised Statutes is retroactive unless it is expressly so stated.”
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