Art. 74.Action On Offense Or Quasi Offense

"Offense" and "quasi offense" are Louisiana's civil-law terms for what common-law jurisdictions usually lump together as torts: an offense is a wrongful act committed intentionally, and a quasi offense is a wrongful act committed through negligence. Article 74 gives a plaintiff pursuing either kind of claim a choice of venue rather than a single fixed parish: sue where the wrongful conduct occurred, or sue where the resulting damages were sustained. Those two parishes are not always the same — a defective product manufactured in one parish, for example, can cause harm in another.

The article also covers actions to enjoin an offense or quasi offense, meaning a request that a court order the wrongful conduct stopped rather than pay damages for harm already done. For an injunction claim, venue lies where the conduct occurred or where it may occur, which lets a plaintiff act before all the harm has materialized.

Article 74 closes with a definition of its own scope: "offense or quasi offense" includes a nuisance and a violation of Civil Code Article 667, the provision governing a landowner's duty not to work damage to a neighboring estate. That inclusion means nuisance and neighboring-property claims travel under this same flexible, conduct-or-injury venue rule rather than under the general domicile-based rule.