TITLE IX.  LEASE

CHAPTER 1.  GENERAL PROVISIONS

Art. 2668.  Contract of lease defined

Lease is a synallagmatic contract by which one party, the lessor, binds himself to give to the other party, the lessee, the use and enjoyment of a thing for a term in exchange for a rent that the lessee binds himself to pay.

The consent of the parties as to the thing and the rent is essential but not necessari­ly sufficient for a contract of lease.

Acts 2004, No. 821, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2005.