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  "urn": "urn:us-la:civcode:art:3018",
  "article_number": "3018",
  "heading": "Disclosed mandate; undisclosed principal",
  "text": "A mandatary who enters into a contract and discloses his status as a mandatary, though not his principal, binds himself personally for the performance of the contract. The mandatary ceases to be bound when the principal is disclosed.",
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      "number": "III",
      "name": "Of the Different Modes of Acquiring the Ownership of Things"
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      "number": "XV",
      "name": "Representation and Mandate"
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      "level": "chapter",
      "number": "2",
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      "name": "Relations between the Principal, the Mandatary, and Third Persons"
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  "acts_citations_raw": "Acts 1997, No. 261, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1998.",
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