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The Lease That Rolls Over

La. C.C. art. 2721 — a tenant who stays one week past a fixed term, with no objection, has a reconducted lease

When a fixed term ends and the tenant stays in possession with no notice to vacate or other objection from either side, the lease is reconducted, which is the Civil Code's word for renewed by staying:

  • After one week, for a lease with a fixed term longer than a week.
  • After one day, for a lease of a week or less.
  • After thirty days, for an agricultural lease.
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All the lease's provisions continue for the new term, and a reconducted lease is ended by the same notice that ends a lease with no fixed term.

Sources for this section (2)
  1. La. C.C. art. 2721 — Reconduction
  2. La. C.C. art. 2724 — Continuity of the reconducted lease

Legal information, not legal advice. Verified as of October 2026. Applying it to a particular situation is the work of a licensed Louisiana attorney.

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