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  "urn": "urn:us-la:civcode:art:1724",
  "article_number": "1724",
  "heading": "Right of parents and ascendants to partition property among descendants",
  "text": "Fathers and mothers and other ascendants may make a distribution and partition of their property among their children and descendants, either by designating the quantum of the parts and partitions [portions] which they assign to each of them, or in designating the property* that shall compose their respective lots.",
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      "level": "book",
      "number": "III",
      "name": "Of the Different Modes of Acquiring the Ownership of Things"
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      "level": "title",
      "number": "II",
      "name": "Donations"
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      "level": "chapter",
      "number": "7",
      "name": "Of Partitions Made by Parents and Other Ascendants among their Descendants"
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  "acts_citations_raw": "Acts 2004, No. 26, §1. * English translation of French text incomplete; should include \"of one kind or another.\"",
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