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  "citation": "R.S. 9:2973",
  "heading": "Preservation of rights",
  "text": "Any person who has made a transfer or other grant affecting land so described, their heirs or assigns, whose rights may be affected hereby, shall have a period of one year from August 1, 1956, within which to preserve and protect such rights, by: (a) filing suit in each parish where such land is situated, asserting such rights, or (b) by recording a notarized declaration asserting such rights in the conveyance records of each parish where such land is situated within such one year period; and in case neither said method of preserving such rights is followed within one year from August 1, 1956, said rights shall be forever barred.",
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      "name": "OF THE DIFFERENT MODES OF ACQUIRING THE OWNERSHIP OF THINGS PRELIMINARY TITLE - GENERAL DISPOSITIONS (BLANK)"
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      "number": "VII",
      "name": "OF SALE"
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      "name": "CONVENTIONAL SALES"
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      "name": "TRANSFER OF LANDS FRONTING WATERWAYS, HIGHWAYS, ETC."
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  "acts_citations_raw": "Acts 1956, No. 555, §3.",
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