Cap. 16 Art. 1606When right of preference is not competent.

No right of preference shall be competent in any of the cases mentioned in article 1594, if the lease is granted for a time not less than one year to a person related to the lessor by consanguinity or affinity up to the degree of cousin inclusively; but in case of misrepresentation or fraud, the party vested with the right of preference may maintain an action for damages exercisable within one year only, to be reckoned, in the case mentioned in paragraph (a) of the said article, from the day on which the said party shall have quitted the tenement in consequence of the said lease, and, in the case mentioned in paragraph (b) of the same article, from the date of the said lease.