If the emphyteuticary should have obtained permission from the legal owner for the alienation, or should have given him the previous notice prescribed in § 4220 of this title, the legal owner cannot demand the payment of laudemio except within a year following the day on which the public instrument is entered in the registry of property. With the exception of these cases this action shall be subject to ordinary prescription.\nHistory —Civil Code, 1930, § 1538.
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