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ARTICLE 64.

MERGER.

1. Remedy upon covenants in case of merger.

2. No merger by mortgage to lessor.

An. Code, sec. 1. 1904, sec. 1. 1888, sec. 1. 1849, ch. 260.

1. Where the reversion of any land expectant on a lease shall be merged
in any other estate, the person entitled to the estate into which such rever-
sion shall have merged shall have the same remedy against the lessee, his
representative or assigns for non-payment of rent or other forfeiture, or
for not performing conditions, covenants or agreements, as the person
entitled to the reversion would have had if such reversion had not merged.

An. Code, sec. 2. 1904, sec. 2. 1888, sec. 2. 1852, ch. 255.

2. There shall be no merger by reason of any conveyance by way of
mortgage or assignment of mortgage from the lessee of any ground demised
for a term of years, his executors, administrators or assigns to the lessor
of such ground or premises, (whether by original or sub-lease,) his heirs,
executors, administrators or assigns, and the same rights and remedies
shall exist as if the grantee in such conveyance had no other interest or
estate in the property than the one thereby conveyed.