CC 3356 - Transfers, amendments, and releases

Art. 3356. Transfers, amendments, and releases

A. A transferee of an obligation secured by a mortgage is not bound by any unrecorded act releasing, amending, or otherwise modifying the mortgage if he is a third person with respect to that unrecorded act.

B. A recorded transfer, modification, amendment, or release of a mortgage or privilege made by the obligee of record is effective as to a third person notwithstanding that the obligation secured by the mortgage or privilege has been transferred to another.

C. For the purpose of this Chapter, the obligee of record of a mortgage or privilege is the person identified by the mortgage records as the obligee of the secured obligation.

Acts 2005, No. 169, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2006; Acts 2005, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 13, §1, eff. Nov. 29, 2005.

NOTE: Acts 2005, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 13, §1, changed the effective date of Acts 2005, No. 169, to July 1, 2006.