East Feliciana Parish Deed Records
East Feliciana Parish deed records are maintained by the Clerk of Court in Clinton, Louisiana. The office holds all conveyances and mortgage records for property in the parish and provides public access as required by state law. You can search East Feliciana Parish deed records through the eClerks LA statewide portal online at no cost for index data, or visit the Clinton courthouse in person to view documents and request certified copies of deeds and mortgages filed in the parish.
East Feliciana Parish Quick Facts
East Feliciana Parish Clerk of Court
Clerk David Dart heads the East Feliciana Parish Clerk of Court at 12305 St. Helena Street in Clinton. Phone: (225) 683-5145. The clerk's office serves as the official repository for all deed records in the parish, maintaining the conveyance and mortgage indexes that title researchers and property owners use to trace land ownership through East Feliciana's recorded history.
East Feliciana Parish sits in the Florida Parishes region of southeast Louisiana, north of Baton Rouge. The parish has a mix of agricultural land, timber tracts, and rural residential property. Clinton, the parish seat, is a small town but the courthouse is the sole official source for all East Feliciana Parish deed records. The grantor-grantee index system used here lets you search from either the seller's name or the buyer's name to find what you need.
The East Feliciana Parish Clerk of Court website provides contact information and access details for deed records in Clinton.
| Clerk | David Dart |
|---|---|
| Address | 12305 St. Helena Street, Clinton, LA 70722 |
| Phone | (225) 683-5145 |
| Website | eastfelicianaclerk.org |
Search East Feliciana Parish Deed Records
The statewide eClerks LA portal at eclerksla.com is the main online access point for East Feliciana Parish deed records. This free index search tool was established under La. R.S. 13:754 and covers all 64 Louisiana parishes. You can look up grantor and grantee names, view filing dates, document types, and instrument numbers at no cost. Viewing actual document images requires a paid parish subscription. The eClerks Alert service, also free, lets you watch for new filings in your name across any Louisiana parish.
Electronic recording is available for East Feliciana Parish, which means attorneys, title companies, and lenders can submit deed and mortgage documents electronically without mailing paper originals to the Clinton courthouse. Contact the clerk's office at (225) 683-5145 for information on e-recording vendors currently accepted.
For in-person research, the Clinton courthouse maintains the complete archive of East Feliciana Parish deed records. Staff can help with searches of the index books. Older records using the Book and Page format (COB/FOL) and newer instrument-numbered documents are both available. Contact the office before visiting to confirm hours and what to bring.
For the earliest land title records covering East Feliciana territory, the Louisiana State Land Office at doa.la.gov holds original state patents and tract books. Phone: (225) 342-4570. These historical records predating the current recording system can help trace the first owners of land in the parish.
East Feliciana Parish Deed Documents
East Feliciana Parish deed records are split into two main indexes. The conveyance index holds deeds, acts of sale, cash sales, donations, exchanges, partitions, long-term leases, oil and gas leases, royalty deeds, rights of way, easements, and recorded plat maps. The mortgage index holds mortgages, mortgage assignments, releases and satisfactions, judgments, tax liens, mechanic's liens, and UCC financing statements.
Under Louisiana Civil Code Article 3338, recording is required to make a document effective against third parties. A deed that is signed but not filed with the East Feliciana Parish Clerk does not bind a later buyer or creditor who had no actual knowledge of it. This requirement gives the public recording system its legal force and is the reason every sale, mortgage, or lien must go through the Clinton courthouse to have full legal effect in East Feliciana Parish.
Recording fees follow the state schedule under La. R.S. 13:844: 1-5 pages at $105; 6-25 pages at $205; 26-50 pages at $305; 51-plus pages at $305 plus $5 per additional page. The $5 LCRAA portal fee is included. Under Louisiana Civil Code Article 2742, recorded documents become permanent East Feliciana Parish archives and are not returned to the filer. Request certified copies at the time of recording if you need them for your records.
Nearby Parishes
East Feliciana Parish borders West Feliciana, East Baton Rouge, Livingston, St. Helena, and St. Tammany parishes.