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  "urn": "urn:us-la:civcode:art:3490",
  "article_number": "3490",
  "heading": "Prescription of three years",
  "text": "One who has possessed a movable as owner, in good faith, under an act sufficient to transfer ownership, and without interruption for three years, acquires ownership by prescription.",
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      "level": "book",
      "number": "III",
      "name": "Of the Different Modes of Acquiring the Ownership of Things"
    },
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      "level": "title",
      "number": "XXIV",
      "name": "Prescription"
    },
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      "level": "chapter",
      "number": "3",
      "name": "Acquisitive Prescription"
    },
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      "number": "3",
      "name": "Movables: Acquisitive Prescription of Three Years or Ten Years"
    }
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