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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:3137"
article_number: "3137"
status: active
heading: "Personal or real security"
breadcrumb: "Book III › Title XX"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=110186"
acts_citations_raw: "Acts 2014, No. 281, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2015."
acts_citations:
  - act_year: 2014
    act_number: 281
    section: 1
    effective_date: 2015-01-01
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---

# Art. 3137. Personal or real security

Security is personal or real.

It is personal when it consists of an obligation undertaken to secure performance of the obligation of another.

It is real when it consists of a right of preference established over property of the obligor or of a third person to secure performance of an obligation.