80. The purchaser may claim from the owner, or the person who redeems in the name of the owner, the cost of necessary repairs and improvements made by him to the immoveable, even if they are then no longer existent, with interest at five per cent per annum.
The purchaser shall, for such claim, have a privilege upon the immoveable and a right of retention, in which rights the person redeeming in the owner’s name shall be subrogated, plenojure, upon paying the purchaser.
R. S. 1964, c. 170, s. 73.