§ 4701 Termination of lease; notice to vacate; waiver of notice
§ 4702 Notice to occupant other than tenant to vacate
§ 4703 Delivery or service when premises abandoned or closed, or whereabouts of tenant or occupant unknown
§ 4704 Definitions
§ 4705 Lessors’ rights or real actions not affected

Terms Used In Louisiana Codes > Code of Civil Procedure > BOOK VII > Title XI > Chapter 1 - General Dispositions

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Lease: means any oral or written lease, and includes a sublease;

    "Lessee" includes a sublessee, whether the person seeking to evict is a lessor or sublessor; and an assignee of a lessee;

    "Lessor" includes a sublessor, assignee, or transferee;

    "Occupant" includes a sharecropper; half hand; day laborer; former owner; and any person occupying immovable property by permission or accommodation of the owner, former owner, or another occupant, except a mineral lessee, owner of a mineral servitude, or a lessee of the owner;

    "Owner" includes a lessee; and

    "Premises" includes the land and all buildings and improvements thereon leased by a tenant, or possessed by an occupant. See Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure 4704

  • Lessee: includes a sublessee, whether the person seeking to evict is a lessor or sublessor; and an assignee of a lessee;

    "Lessor" includes a sublessor, assignee, or transferee;

    "Occupant" includes a sharecropper; half hand; day laborer; former owner; and any person occupying immovable property by permission or accommodation of the owner, former owner, or another occupant, except a mineral lessee, owner of a mineral servitude, or a lessee of the owner;

    "Owner" includes a lessee; and

    "Premises" includes the land and all buildings and improvements thereon leased by a tenant, or possessed by an occupant. See Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure 4704

  • Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
  • Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.