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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:3303"
article_number: "3303"
status: active
heading: "Nature of judicial and legal mortgages"
breadcrumb: "Book III › Title XXII › Chapter 3"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=110353"
acts_citations_raw: "Acts 1992, No. 1132, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1993."
acts_citations:
  - act_year: 1992
    act_number: 1132
    section: 2
    effective_date: 1993-01-01
    role: enactment
schema_version: "1.0.0"
---

# Art. 3303. Nature of judicial and legal mortgages

Judicial and legal mortgages are general mortgages. They are established over property that the obligor owns when the mortgage is created and over future property of the obligor when he acquires it.