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  "urn": "urn:us-la:civcode:art:3251",
  "article_number": "3251",
  "heading": "Successive sales, preference among vendors",
  "text": "If there are several successive sales, on which the price is due wholly or in part, the first vendor is preferred to the second, the second to the third, and so throughout and as provided by Article 3186, and assuming timely recordation as provided in Article 3274, each such vendor is preferred to the previously recorded mortgages of his vendees and their successors.",
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      "number": "III",
      "name": "Of the Different Modes of Acquiring the Ownership of Things"
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      "number": "XXI",
      "name": "Of Privileges"
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      "number": "4",
      "name": "Of Privileges on Immovables"
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