Civil Code (Cap. 16), article 546

546. Any person who shall have obtained possession of the thing by theft or any other offe nce, not being a mere contraven tion, shall not be entitled to any indemnity for any kind of expenses , or to remove any meliorations made on the thing; and he may be compelled by the owner to remove at his expense, and without an y right to indemnity, such objects as may be removed, and also to make good any damage which the owner may have suffered. Set-off of fruits against expenses.