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  "urn": "urn:us-la:civcode:art:1765",
  "article_number": "1765",
  "heading": "Heritable obligation",
  "text": "An obligation is heritable when its performance may be enforced by a successor of the obligee or against a successor of the obligor.\n\nEvery obligation is deemed heritable as to all parties, except when the contrary results from the terms or from the nature of the contract.\n\nA heritable obligation is also transferable between living persons.",
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      "name": "Of the Different Modes of Acquiring the Ownership of Things"
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      "number": "III",
      "name": "Obligations in General"
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      "number": "3",
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  "acts_citations_raw": "Acts 1984, No. 331, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1985.",
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