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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:3145"
article_number: "3145"
status: active
heading: "Preference afforded by pledge"
breadcrumb: "Book III › Title XX-A › Chapter 1"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=110194"
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
    role: enactment
schema_version: "1.0.0"
---

# Art. 3145. Preference afforded by pledge

Pledge gives the pledgee the right to be satisfied from the thing pledged and its fruits in preference to unsecured creditors of the pledgor and to other persons whose rights become effective against the pledgee after the pledge has become effective as to them.