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  "heading": "Obligee must join obligor and third persons",
  "text": "In an action to annul either his obligor's act, or the result of his obligor's failure to act, the obligee must join the obligor and the third persons involved in that act or failure to act.\n\nA third person joined in the action may plead discussion of the obligor's assets.",
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      "name": "Of the Different Modes of Acquiring the Ownership of Things"
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      "number": "IV",
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      "name": "Revocatory Action and Oblique Action"
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