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  "urn": "urn:us-la:civcode:art:3022",
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  "heading": "Disclosed mandate or principal; third person bound",
  "text": "A third person with whom a mandatary contracts in the name of the principal, or in his own name as mandatary, is bound to the principal for the performance of the contract.",
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      "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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      "level": "chapter",
      "number": "2",
      "name": "Mandate"
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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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