{
  "urn": "urn:us-la:civcode:art:2018",
  "article_number": "2018",
  "heading": "Effects of dissolution",
  "text": "Upon dissolution of a contract, the parties shall be restored to the situation that existed before the contract was made. If restoration in kind is impossible or impracticable, the court may award damages.\n\nIf partial performance has been rendered and that performance is of value to the party seeking to dissolve the contract, the dissolution does not preclude recovery for that performance, whether in contract or quasi-contract.",
  "status": "active",
  "hierarchy_path": [
    {
      "level": "book",
      "number": "III",
      "name": "Of the Different Modes of Acquiring the Ownership of Things"
    },
    {
      "level": "title",
      "number": "IV",
      "name": "Conventional Obligations or Contracts"
    },
    {
      "level": "chapter",
      "number": "9",
      "name": "Dissolution"
    }
  ],
  "breadcrumb": "Book III › Title IV › Chapter 9",
  "acts_citations": [
    {
      "act_year": 1984,
      "act_number": 331,
      "section": 1,
      "effective_date": "1985-01-01",
      "effective_date_raw": "Jan. 1, 1985",
      "role": "enactment"
    }
  ],
  "acts_citations_raw": "Acts 1984, No. 331, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1985.",
  "source_url": "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=109275",
  "website_law_id": 109275,
  "scrape_timestamp": "2026-05-20T14:11:38Z",
  "source_html_hash": "sha256:a83411f93511fa8585bbc17503853d07d25812d6b27310ce73cfb421b98fc32b",
  "schema_version": "1.0.0"
}