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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:2025"
article_number: "2025"
status: active
heading: "Definition; simulation and counterletter"
breadcrumb: "Book III › Title IV › Chapter 10"
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acts_citations_raw: "Acts 1984, No. 331, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1985."
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  - act_year: 1984
    act_number: 331
    section: 1
    effective_date: 1985-01-01
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# Art. 2025. Definition; simulation and counterletter

A contract is a simulation when, by mutual agreement, it does not express the true intent of the parties.

If the true intent of the parties is expressed in a separate writing, that writing is a counterletter.