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  "heading": "Undisclosed mandate or principal; obligations of third person",
  "text": "A third person with whom a mandatary contracts without disclosing his status or the identity of the principal is bound to the principal for the performance of the contract unless the obligation is strictly personal or the right non-assignable. The third person may raise all defenses that may be asserted against the mandatary or the principal.",
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      "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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      "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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