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  "urn": "urn:us-la:civcode:art:2044",
  "article_number": "2044",
  "heading": "Insolvency by failure to exercise right",
  "text": "If an obligor causes or increases his insolvency by failing to exercise a right, the obligee may exercise it himself, unless the right is strictly personal to the obligor.\n\nFor that purpose, the obligee must join in the suit his obligor and the third person against whom that right is asserted.",
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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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  "acts_citations_raw": "Acts 1984, No. 331, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1985.",
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