LOUISIANA NOTARY CORRECT EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔habitation - ✔✔personal servitude granted to a natural person to dwell in the house
of another
✔✔heritable - ✔✔transferable; capable of transferring by voluntary action or by
succession; not strictly personal
✔✔homestead exemption - ✔✔an exemption from liability that prevents creditors from
obtaining satisfaction from immovable property which the debtor resides in as part of his
primary domicile
✔✔hypothecate - ✔✔to pledge as collateral for a debt without transferring possession
✔✔illegitimate children - ✔✔those who are conceived and born outside of marriage
✔✔immobilization - ✔✔taking a trailer or something that is normally movable and fixing
it to the land to make it an immovable
✔✔immovable - ✔✔real property; real estate
✔✔in globo - ✔✔in a mass" as an undivided whole rather that separately"
✔✔in toto - ✔✔in whole"; completely; as a whole"
✔✔incorporeal - ✔✔property that does not have a material form, such as a right or a
debt
✔✔infra - ✔✔below
✔✔inter vivos - ✔✔between living persons
, ✔✔interdict - ✔✔a person above the age of majority who is declared by a court to be
incapable of either caring for his own person or administering his estate, or both,
although he may at times appear to have possession of his reason
✔✔interdiction - ✔✔judicial proceeding whereby a curator is appointed for an adult or
emancipated minor who, due to infirmity, is unable to make reasoned decisions
regarding his person or property, or both
✔✔interpretive - ✔✔relating to, involving, or providing an interpretation or explanation of
something
✔✔intestate - ✔✔one who has died without a will
✔✔inventory - ✔✔a written list or catalog of the property of a person or succession that
is made by under oath and that usually describes and assigns a value to each item of
property
✔✔judgment - ✔✔a determination of a court of law; a judicial decision
✔✔judicial mortgage - ✔✔a mortgage which results from filing a judgment in the
mortgage records of the parish where the property of the debtor is located
✔✔Jurat - ✔✔the clause Sworn to and subscribed before me, notary public, at (place)
on (date) and signed by the notary public"
✔✔juridical person - ✔✔an entity to which the law attributes legal personality, such as a
corporation
✔✔laborer's privilege or lien - ✔✔a privilege granted by law to protect workmen for a
payment of the labor performed by them
✔✔landlord - ✔✔lessor of property
✔✔lease - ✔✔agreement by one party to let another person use a thing for a fixed price
and term
✔✔legal mortgage - ✔✔a mortgage arising by operation of law
✔✔legatee - ✔✔one who is named in a will to take personal property; one who has
received a legacy or bequest; a testate successor
✔✔legitime - ✔✔that portion of a decedent's estate that the law reserves to him by right
AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔habitation - ✔✔personal servitude granted to a natural person to dwell in the house
of another
✔✔heritable - ✔✔transferable; capable of transferring by voluntary action or by
succession; not strictly personal
✔✔homestead exemption - ✔✔an exemption from liability that prevents creditors from
obtaining satisfaction from immovable property which the debtor resides in as part of his
primary domicile
✔✔hypothecate - ✔✔to pledge as collateral for a debt without transferring possession
✔✔illegitimate children - ✔✔those who are conceived and born outside of marriage
✔✔immobilization - ✔✔taking a trailer or something that is normally movable and fixing
it to the land to make it an immovable
✔✔immovable - ✔✔real property; real estate
✔✔in globo - ✔✔in a mass" as an undivided whole rather that separately"
✔✔in toto - ✔✔in whole"; completely; as a whole"
✔✔incorporeal - ✔✔property that does not have a material form, such as a right or a
debt
✔✔infra - ✔✔below
✔✔inter vivos - ✔✔between living persons
, ✔✔interdict - ✔✔a person above the age of majority who is declared by a court to be
incapable of either caring for his own person or administering his estate, or both,
although he may at times appear to have possession of his reason
✔✔interdiction - ✔✔judicial proceeding whereby a curator is appointed for an adult or
emancipated minor who, due to infirmity, is unable to make reasoned decisions
regarding his person or property, or both
✔✔interpretive - ✔✔relating to, involving, or providing an interpretation or explanation of
something
✔✔intestate - ✔✔one who has died without a will
✔✔inventory - ✔✔a written list or catalog of the property of a person or succession that
is made by under oath and that usually describes and assigns a value to each item of
property
✔✔judgment - ✔✔a determination of a court of law; a judicial decision
✔✔judicial mortgage - ✔✔a mortgage which results from filing a judgment in the
mortgage records of the parish where the property of the debtor is located
✔✔Jurat - ✔✔the clause Sworn to and subscribed before me, notary public, at (place)
on (date) and signed by the notary public"
✔✔juridical person - ✔✔an entity to which the law attributes legal personality, such as a
corporation
✔✔laborer's privilege or lien - ✔✔a privilege granted by law to protect workmen for a
payment of the labor performed by them
✔✔landlord - ✔✔lessor of property
✔✔lease - ✔✔agreement by one party to let another person use a thing for a fixed price
and term
✔✔legal mortgage - ✔✔a mortgage arising by operation of law
✔✔legatee - ✔✔one who is named in a will to take personal property; one who has
received a legacy or bequest; a testate successor
✔✔legitime - ✔✔that portion of a decedent's estate that the law reserves to him by right
