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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:1788"
article_number: "1788"
status: active
heading: "Joint obligations for obligors or obligees"
breadcrumb: "Book III › Title III › Chapter 3 › Section 5"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=109023"
acts_citations_raw: "Acts 1984, No. 331, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1985."
acts_citations:
  - act_year: 1984
    act_number: 331
    section: 1
    effective_date: 1985-01-01
    role: enactment
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---

# Art. 1788. Joint obligations for obligors or obligees

When different obligors owe together just one performance to one obligee, but neither is bound for the whole, the obligation is joint for the obligors.

When one obligor owes just one performance intended for the common benefit of different obligees, neither of whom is entitled to the whole performance, the obligation is joint for the obligees.