Art. 43.Exceptions to General Rules

Article 43 is a short signpost with real consequences. It states that the general venue rules in Article 42 are subject to the exceptions found in the next section of this chapter — the long run of special venue articles for specific kinds of lawsuits — and to any other venue rule the legislature has written elsewhere in the law.

That ordering matters in practice. A lawyer checking venue should never stop at Article 42. If the case fits one of the special situations covered by Articles 71 through 86 — a tort claim, a suit on an insurance policy, a dispute over real estate, an action against a partnership — that special article controls instead of the general domicile rule, even though Article 42 might point somewhere else.

Article 43 does not itself list the exceptions or explain how to resolve a conflict between two of them; Article 45, a few articles later, handles that second problem. Article 43's contribution is simpler: it tells the reader that the general rule is a default, not the last word.