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acts_citations_raw: "Acts 1995, No. 1041, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1996."
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# Art. 2296. Capacity

An incompetent person or a person of limited legal capacity may be the owner of an affair, but he may not be a manager. When such a person manages the affairs of another, the rights and duties of the parties are governed by the law of enrichment without cause or the law of delictual obligations.