11 U.S.C. § 361 — Adequate protection

Sections 362, 363, and 364 sometimes require "adequate protection" for someone's interest in property — for example, when the automatic stay blocks them from acting, when the trustee uses, sells, or leases the property, or when the trustee grants a new lien on it. This section lists three ways the trustee can provide that adequate protection: (1) making a cash payment, or ongoing cash payments, to the entity — to the extent its interest in the property has actually lost value because of the stay, use, sale, lease, or new lien; (2) giving the entity an extra or replacement lien, again limited to the amount of value its interest lost; or (3) providing some other kind of relief that gives the entity the "indubitable equivalent" — the full, undoubted equal — of its interest in the property, except that this other relief cannot include the administrative-expense compensation allowed under section 503(b)(1).