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  "urn": "urn:us-la:civcode:art:3421",
  "article_number": "3421",
  "heading": "Possession",
  "text": "Possession is the detention or enjoyment of a corporeal thing, movable or immovable, that one holds or exercises by himself or by another who keeps or exercises it in his name.\n\nThe exercise of a real right, such as a servitude, with the intent to have it as one's own is quasi-possession. The rules governing possession apply by analogy to the quasi-possession of incorporeals.",
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    {
      "level": "book",
      "number": "III",
      "name": "Of the Different Modes of Acquiring the Ownership of Things"
    },
    {
      "level": "title",
      "number": "XXIII",
      "name": "Occupancy and Possession"
    },
    {
      "level": "chapter",
      "number": "2",
      "name": "Possession"
    },
    {
      "level": "section",
      "number": "1",
      "name": "Notion and Kinds of Possession"
    }
  ],
  "breadcrumb": "Book III › Title XXIII › Chapter 2 › Section 1",
  "acts_citations": [
    {
      "act_year": 1982,
      "act_number": 187,
      "section": 1,
      "effective_date": "1983-01-01",
      "effective_date_raw": "Jan. 1, 1983",
      "role": "enactment"
    }
  ],
  "acts_citations_raw": "Acts 1982, No. 187, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1983.",
  "source_url": "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=110444",
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