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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:3540"
article_number: "3540"
status: active
heading: "Party autonomy"
breadcrumb: "Book IV › Title VI"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=110561"
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. 3540. Party autonomy

All other issues of conventional obligations are governed by the law expressly chosen or clearly relied upon by the parties, except to the extent that law contravenes the public policy of the state whose law would otherwise be applicable under Article 3537.