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  "text": "The civil consequences of an unlawful act giving rise to a criminal action may be the object of a compromise, but the criminal action itself shall not be extinguished by the compromise.\n\nA compromise may relate to the patrimonial effects of a person's civil status, but that civil status cannot be changed by the compromise.",
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