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NATURAL OBLIGATIONS

Article 1423. Obligations are civil or natural.

Civil obligations give a right of action to compel

their performance. Natural obligations, not

being based on positive law but on equity and

natural law, do not grant a right of action to

enforce their performance, but after voluntary

fulfillment by the obligor, they authorize the

retention of what has been delivered or

rendered by reason thereof. Some natural

obligations are set forth in the following

Articles.

Article 1424. When a right to sue upon a civil

obligation has lapsed by extinctive prescription,

the obligor who voluntarily performs the

contract cannot recover what he has delivered

or the value of the service he has rendered.