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  "heading": "Effect of priorities among privileges.",
  "text": "When the debts privileged on the movables and immovables can not be paid entirely, either because the movable effects are of small value, or subject to special privileges which claim a preference, or because the movables and immovables together do not suffice, the deficiency must not be borne proportionally among the debtors,* but the debts must be paid according to the order established above, and the loss must fall on those which are of inferior dignity.**\n\n*Note error in English translation of French text; \"debtors\" should be \"debts.\"\n\n**English translation of French text incomplete; should include \"and which cannot be discharged.\"",
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