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  "heading": "Prompt recordation and certificate of encumbrances",
  "text": "Except as provided in R.S. 35:12(D), in no case can the recorder of mortgages and the parish recorders fulfilling the same duties refuse or delay the recording of the acts which are presented to them for that purpose, or the delivery of the certificates which are required of them, as hereafter stated.\n\nRedesignated from C.C. Art. 3392 by Acts 1992, No. 1132, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 1993. Amended by Acts 2004, No. 62, §1.",
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