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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:3166"
article_number: "3166"
status: active
heading: "Modification as default by pledgor"
breadcrumb: "Book III › Title XX-A › Chapter 1"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=110215"
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
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---

# Art. 3166. Modification as default by pledgor

The pledgor and pledgee may agree that a modification or termination of the contract from which a pledged obligation of a third person arises, or the substitution of a new contract, is a default by the pledgor.