Definitions

Art. 4704. Definitions Unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, as used in this Title the following terms have the following meanings: "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.