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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:3539"
article_number: "3539"
status: active
heading: "Capacity"
breadcrumb: "Book IV › Title VI"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=110559"
acts_citations_raw: "Acts 1991, No. 923, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1992."
acts_citations:
  - act_year: 1991
    act_number: 923
    section: 1
    effective_date: 1992-01-01
    role: enactment
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---

# Art. 3539. Capacity

A person is capable of contracting if he possesses that capacity under the law of either the state in which he is domiciled at the time of making the contract or the state whose law is applicable to the contract under Article 3537.