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  "urn": "urn:us-la:civcode:art:2987",
  "article_number": "2987",
  "heading": "Procuration defined; person to whom addressed",
  "text": "A procuration is a unilateral juridical act by which a person, the principal, confers authority on another person, the representative, to represent the principal in legal relations.\n\nThe procuration may be addressed to the representative or to a person with whom the representative is authorized to represent the principal in legal relations.",
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      "level": "book",
      "number": "III",
      "name": "Of the Different Modes of Acquiring the Ownership of Things"
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      "level": "title",
      "number": "XV",
      "name": "Representation and Mandate"
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  "acts_citations_raw": "Acts 1997, No. 261, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1998.",
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