Section 3: Sequestration or judicial deposit.

The court may order the sequestration: 1° Of movables seized from a debtor; 2° Of an immovable or movable thing, the ownership or possession of which is in dispute between two or more persons; 3° Of things which a debtor offers for his release.

The establishment of a judicial custodian produces reciprocal obligations between the seizing party and the custodian. The custodian must take reasonable care to preserve the effects seized. He must represent them either in discharge of the distrainor for the sale, or to the party against whom the executions have been made, in the event of release of the seizure. The distrainor’s obligation consists of paying the custodian the salary fixed…

Judicial sequestration is given either to a person agreed between the interested parties or to a person appointed ex officio by the judge. In either case, the person to whom the thing has been entrusted is subject to all the obligations entailed by conventional sequestration.