Section 3: Rules specific to farm leases.

In the event of a contravention, the owner has the right to re-enter the property, and the lessee is ordered to pay damages resulting from the non-performance of the lease.

If, in a farm lease, the land is given a lesser or greater extent than that which it actually has, there shall be no increase or decrease in price for the farmer, except in the cases and according to the rules expressed in the title “Of sale”.

If the lessee of a rural inheritance does not equip it with the livestock and utensils necessary for its operation, if he abandons cultivation, if he does not cultivate reasonably, if he uses the leased thing for a purpose other than that for which it was intended, or, in general, if he does not perform the clauses of the lease, and if this results in damage to the lessor, the…

Any lessee of rural property is obliged to farm on the premises for this purpose according to the lease.

The lessee of a rural property is obliged, on pain of all costs, damages and interest, to warn the owner of any usurpations that may be committed on the land. This warning must be given within the same period as that which is regulated in the case of summons according to the distance of the premises.

If the lease is made for several years, and during the term of the lease the whole or at least half of a crop is removed by fortuitous events, the farmer may claim a remission of the price of his tenancy, unless he is compensated by the previous crops. If he is not compensated, the estimate of the remission can only take place at the end of the lease, at…

If the lease is for only one year, and the loss is all the fruit, or at least half, the lessee shall be discharged from a proportionate part of the rental price. He shall not be entitled to any rebate if the loss is less than half.

The farmer cannot obtain a remission where the loss of the fruit occurs after it has been separated from the land, unless the lease gives the owner a share of the harvest in kind, in which case the owner must bear his share of the loss, provided that the lessee was not on notice to deliver his share of the harvest. The farmer cannot also claim a remission where the…

The lessee may be charged for fortuitous events by express stipulation.

This stipulation applies only to ordinary fortuitous events, such as hail, fire from the sky, frost or blight. It does not apply to extraordinary fortuitous events, such as the ravages of war, or a flood, to which the country is not ordinarily subject, unless the lessee has been charged with all foreseen or unforeseen fortuitous events.