---
urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:3069"
article_number: "3069"
status: active
heading: "Necessity for judgment against legal surety"
breadcrumb: "Book III › Title XVI › Chapter 7"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=110111"
acts_citations_raw: "Acts 1987, No. 409, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1988."
acts_citations:
  - act_year: 1987
    act_number: 409
    section: 1
    effective_date: 1988-01-01
    role: enactment
schema_version: "1.0.0"
---

# Art. 3069. Necessity for judgment against legal surety

No judgment shall be rendered against a legal surety unless the creditor obtains judgment against the principal obligor fixing the amount of the latter's liability to the creditor or unless the amount of that liability has otherwise been fixed. The creditor may join the surety and principal obligor in the same action.