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acquisition of ownership or other real rights,

but the grantor was not the owner or could not

transmit any right. (n)

Article 1132. The ownership of movables

prescribes through uninterrupted possession

for four years in good faith.

The ownership of personal property also

prescribes through uninterrupted possession

for eight years, without need of any other

condition.

With regard to the right of the owner to recover

personal property lost or of which he has been

illegally deprived, as well as with respect to

movables acquired in a public sale, fair, or

market, or from a merchant's store the

provisions of Articles 559 and 1505 of this Code

shall be observed. (1955a)