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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:1520"
article_number: "1520"
status: active
heading: "Prohibited substitutions, definitions"
breadcrumb: "Book III › Title II › Chapter 4"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=108841"
acts_citations_raw: "Amended by Acts 1962, No. 45, §1; Acts 2001, No. 825, §1."
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  - act_year: 1962
    act_number: 45
    section: 1
    role: enactment
  - act_year: 2001
    act_number: 825
    section: 1
    role: amendment
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# Art. 1520. Prohibited substitutions, definitions

A disposition that is not in trust by which a thing is donated in full ownership to a first donee, called the institute, with a charge to preserve the thing and deliver it to a second donee, called the substitute, at the death of the institute, is null with regard to both the institute and the substitute.