Obligations and Contracts and Related Laws

Article 2005

A judicial deposit or sequestration takes place when an attachment or seizure of property in litigation is ordered. (1785)

Article 2006

Movable as well as immovable property may be the object of sequestration. (1786)

Article 2007

The depositary of property or objects sequestrated cannot be relieved of his responsibility until the controversy which gave rise thereto has come to an end, unless the court so orders. (1787a)

Article 2008

The depositary of property sequestrated is bound to comply, with respect to the same, with all the obligations of a good father of a family. (1788)

Article 2009

As to matters not provided for in this Code, judicial sequestration shall be governed by the Rules of Court. (1789a) General Provision