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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:1913"
article_number: "1913"
status: active
heading: "Principal and accessory contracts"
breadcrumb: "Book III › Title IV › Chapter 1"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=109160"
acts_citations_raw: "Acts 1984, No. 331, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1985; Acts 1989, No. 137, §16, eff. Sept. 1, 1989."
acts_citations:
  - act_year: 1984
    act_number: 331
    section: 1
    effective_date: 1985-01-01
    role: enactment
  - act_year: 1989
    act_number: 137
    section: 16
    effective_date: 1989-09-01
    role: amendment
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---

# Art. 1913. Principal and accessory contracts

A contract is accessory when it is made to provide security for the performance of an obligation. Suretyship, mortgage, pledge, and other types of security agreements are examples of such a contract.

When the secured obligation arises from a contract, either between the same or other parties, that contract is the principal contract.