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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:3205"
article_number: "3205"
status: active
heading: "Servants, definition."
breadcrumb: "Book III › Title XXI › Chapter 3 › Section 1 › §4"
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# Art. 3205. Servants, definition.

Servants or domestics are those who receive wages, and stay in the house of the person paying and employing them for his* service or that of his family; such are valets, footmen, cooks, butlers, and others who reside in the house.

*English translation of French text incomplete; should include "personal."