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604.
The period of duration of a hiring cannot exceed twenty years. If a hiring is made for a longer period, such period is to be reduced to twenty years.
The aforesaid period may be extended; but it must not exceed twenty years from the time of the extention.
Subsection II.
The Effect of the Hiring of Things.
605.
If the hiring of an immovable is registered, it is valid against any person who afterwards acquires a real right in the immovable.
606.
The letter is bound to make all repairs necessary for the use and taking profits of the thing hired.
The hirer cannot refuse permission to the letter to do any act necessary to the preservation of the thing hired.
607.
If the letter desires to do, against the will of the hirer, an act of preservation by reason of which it would be impossible for the hirer to accomplish the object of the hiring, the hirer may rescind the contract.
608.
If the hirer has incurred necessary expenses in respect to the thing hired, which ought to have been borne by