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Article 1962Deposit in General and its Different
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A deposit is constituted from the moment a
person receives a thing belonging to another, with the
obligation of safely keeping it and of returning the same.
If the safekeeping of the thing delivered is not the
principal purpose of the contract, there is no deposit but
some other contract. (1758a)
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