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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:1830"
article_number: "1830"
status: active
heading: "Effects of legal subrogation"
breadcrumb: "Book III › Title III › Chapter 4 › Section 2"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=109069"
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
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---

# Art. 1830. Effects of legal subrogation

When subrogation takes place by operation of law, the new obligee may recover from the obligor only to the extent of the performance rendered to the original obligee. The new obligee may not recover more by invoking conventional subrogation.