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Section VII.
The Hiring of Things.[1]

Subsection I.
General Provisions.

601.

The hiring of a thing is where one party agrees to have the other use and take profits of a thing, and the other party agrees to pay a rent[2] therefor.

602.

If a person who has not disposing capacity or authority to do so, makes a contract of hiring, such hiring cannot be for longer than the following periods:—

  1. In case of the hiring of mountain or wood land for the purpose of planting or cutting trees, ten years;
  2. In case of the hiring of other land, five years;
  3. In case of the hiring of buildings, three years;
  4. In case of the hiring of movables, six months.

603.

The periods mentioned in the preceding article can be extended; but such extention must be made as to land within one year, as to buildings within three months, as to movables within one month before the termination of the period.

  1. ↑ Locatio conductio rerum in Roman Law.
  2. ↑ The word “rent” is used to denote the price of the hiring of either immovables or movables.
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