Art. 2379 Rights of buyer in case of eviction

If you buy property at a sheriff's sale (because a court ordered it sold to pay off a debt) and someone later kicks you off that property because the sale didn't give you clean ownership, you have the right to get your money back. You can seek reimbursement from two people: the original debtor whose property was sold, and the creditor who forced the sale.

The law sets an order for how you collect this money. You must first try to collect from the debtor. Only if that doesn't fully pay you back can you then go after the creditor who seized the property.

There's also a limit on how much you can collect from the creditor. You can only recover up to the amount that creditor actually received from the sheriff's sale. So if the creditor only got a small amount from the sale, that's the most you can collect from them, even if your total loss was bigger.