Rights to sue for possession – limitation

The suits for maintaining in possession, and for the restoration of possession, may be instituted by the person disturbed in possession or by the dispossessed person, or by his heirs or representatives, the first only against the trespasser, except a suit for damages against the heirs and representatives; the second, not only against the trespasser, but also against his heirs, and representatives, or against a third party, to whom the thing may have been transferred by any title. § Sole paragraph - The suit to be maintained in possession prescribes on the expiry of one year from the date when disturbance was started; the suit for possession prescribes by the same period from the date of dispossession, or from the date of knowledge thereof to the aggrieved party, in case encroachment has been done clandestinely.