Article 3051

Payment by debtor without notice of payment by surety ACTIVE

A surety may not recover from the principal obligor, by way of subrogation or reimbursement, the amount paid the creditor if the principal obligor also pays the creditor for want of being warned by the surety of the previous payment.

In these circumstances, the surety may recover from the creditor.

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History

  • enactment Acts 1987, No. 409, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1988

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@misc{lacivcode-art-3051,
  title        = {La. Civ. Code art. 3051},
  howpublished = {Louisiana Civil Code},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://theusufruct.com/cc/3051},
  note         = {Snapshot 2026-05-22}
}