Louisiana Civil Code

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TITLE XIV - OF ALEATORY CONTRACTS

 

Art. 2982. The aleatory contract is a mutual agreement, of which the effects, with respect both to the advantages and losses, whether to all the parties or to one or more of them, depend on an uncertain event.

Art. 2983. The law grants no action for the payment of what has been won at gaming or by a bet, except for games tending to promote skill in the use of arms, such as the exercise of the gun and foot, horse and chariot racing.

And as to such games, the judge may reject the demand, when the sum appears to him excessive.

Art. 2984. In all cases in which the law refuses an action to the winner, it also refuses to suffer the loser to reclaim what he has voluntarily paid, unless there has been, on the part of the winner, fraud, deceit, or swindling.




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