Art. 4847.Limitations Upon Jurisdiction

Article 4847 supplies the list that Article 4846 promised: the specific categories a parish or city court has no power to hear, no matter how small the amount in dispute might be. Title to immovable property tops the list, along with disputes over the right to hold public office, and any case where a party asserts civil or political rights under the federal or state constitution.

Family and status matters make up another cluster: annulment of marriage, divorce, separation of property, and alimony claims, along with succession, interdiction, receivership, liquidation, habeas corpus, and quo warranto proceedings. These are matters Louisiana routes to district court because of the broader legal consequences they carry, not because of their dollar value.

A parish or city court also cannot hear a case where the state, or a parish, municipal, or other political corporation, is a defendant, with one narrow exception: the City Court of East St. Tammany can hear a petition for nullity aimed at setting aside its own bond-forfeiture judgment. A catch-all preserves any other exclusion found elsewhere in the law.

Paragraph B adds exclusions that apply to city courts alone, on top of everything already withheld from both parish and city courts: tutorship and curatorship proceedings, which appoint and supervise guardians for minors and incapacitated adults, along with emancipation and partition proceedings.