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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:1296"
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heading: "Definitive and provisional partitions, distinguished."
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# Art. 1296. Definitive and provisional partitions, distinguished.

By definitive partition is also understood the judicial partition, made according to law; and by provisional partition, that in which the formalities prescribed by law have not been observed, or that by which the parties are not definitively bound.