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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:3158"
article_number: "3158"
status: active
heading: "Enforcement of pledge of a movable"
breadcrumb: "Book III › Title XX-A › Chapter 1"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=110207"
acts_citations_raw: "Amended by Acts 1900, No. 157, §1; Acts 1952, No. 290, §1; Acts 1989, No. 137, §17, eff. June 22, 1989; Acts 2014, No. 281, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2015."
acts_citations:
  - act_year: 1900
    act_number: 157
    section: 1
    role: enactment
  - act_year: 1952
    act_number: 290
    section: 1
    role: amendment
  - act_year: 1989
    act_number: 137
    section: 17
    effective_date: 1989-06-22
    role: amendment
  - act_year: 2014
    act_number: 281
    section: 1
    effective_date: 2015-01-01
    role: amendment
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# Art. 3158. Enforcement of pledge of a movable

If agreed in a written contract of pledge of a movable, the pledgee may, upon failure of performance of the secured obligation, dispose of the thing pledged at public auction or by private sale, but he shall act reasonably in disposing of the thing and shall account to the pledgor for any proceeds of the disposition in excess of the amount needed to satisfy the secured obligation. Otherwise, the pledgee may cause the sale of the thing pledged only by having it seized and sold under judicial process.