A writ of sequestration to enforce a lessor's privilege shall issue without the furnishing of security.
Art. 3575.Lessor's Privilege
Book VII. Special Proceedings · Title I. Provisional Remedies · Chapter 1. Attachment and Sequestration · Amendment history unavailable · Last verified July 30, 2026
In one sentenceArticle 3575 exempts a writ of sequestration enforcing a lessor's privilege from any security requirement, letting a lessor seize property subject to the privilege without posting a bond.
Full Text of Art. 3575
Plain-English Summary
Most sequestrations require security under Article 3574. The lessor's privilege gets a full exemption instead. Article 3575 lets a writ of sequestration enforcing that privilege issue without any security at all.
The lessor's privilege is a real right favoring landlords over property the tenant keeps on the leased premises, securing unpaid rent. Because Louisiana law already gives that privilege a defined and reasonably reliable scope, the legislature chose not to layer an additional bond requirement onto a lessor's effort to enforce it through sequestration.
This exemption connects directly to Article 3572's rule letting a lessor sequester even before rent is due, when there is good reason to believe the tenant will remove the property. Together, the two articles give lessors an efficient, low-cost route to protecting the property their privilege attaches to, without the delay or expense a security requirement would add.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a landlord have to post security to sequester a tenant's property in Louisiana?
No, when the sequestration enforces the lessor's privilege. Article 3575 exempts that specific use of sequestration from any security requirement.
What is the lessor's privilege?
A real right favoring a landlord over property the tenant keeps on the leased premises, securing the tenant's rent obligation.
Does this no-security rule apply to every sequestration a landlord might seek?
No. It applies specifically to sequestration enforcing the lessor's privilege. A landlord pursuing sequestration on some other basis would fall under Article 3574's general security requirement instead.
Why doesn't the lessor's privilege require the usual sequestration security?
Because the privilege itself already defines and limits the landlord's real right over the tenant's property, so the legislature did not add a bond requirement on top of it for enforcement by sequestration.
Source & verification. Article text is reproduced verbatim from
the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure (legis.la.gov). Enacted by the Louisiana Legislature.
Last verified July 30, 2026.
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