Art. 283.Orders and Judgments Which May Be Signed By District Court Clerk

Article 282 says what a district court clerk may do; Article 283 says what the clerk may sign to make it official — and adds a further list of orders on top. The first category formalizes Article 282 directly: an order or judgment that puts one of those acts into effect.

Beyond that, a clerk may sign orders for executory process, for a writ of attachment or sequestration, for garnishment under a writ of fieri facias, attachment, or sequestration, for the release under bond of seized property, and for permission to file an intervention. In succession matters, a clerk may sign an order for the execution of a probated testament, the affixing of seals, the taking of an inventory, the public sale of succession property to pay debts — on the representative's written application listing those debts — the advertisement of a tableau of distribution or account, and an order requiring a legal representative to file an account.

A clerk may also sign an order letting a party sue or defend a suit without paying court costs, under the in forma pauperis articles. And when a signed order calls for a notary's involvement, the clerk appoints whichever notary the party who obtained the order suggests.