Art. 4705.Lessors' Rights Or Real Actions Not Affected

Eviction under Title XI is built to do one thing well: recover physical possession of property from someone who no longer has the right to keep it. Article 4705 makes clear that this focused tool is not meant to be a lessor's only option, by preserving whatever other remedies already existed alongside it.

Specifically, the article protects a lessor's remedy for rent due and the remedy of seizing furniture found on the leased premises to secure that rent, a reference to the lessor's privilege on movables located there and the sequestration procedure that can enforce it. Nothing about pursuing a fast eviction under this Title cuts off those separate avenues for collecting what is owed.

Article 4705 also confirms that the eviction title does not conflict with Articles 3651 through 3664, the Code's petitory and possessory actions. A party who wants to litigate title or a longer-term possessory right, rather than recovering physical possession from a tenant or occupant whose right to stay has ended, can still bring one of those real actions instead of, or alongside, an eviction proceeding.