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Law no (22) of 2004 Regarding Promulgating the Civil Code

Law Summary Record Type: LawNumber: 22Date: 30/06/2004 Corresponding to 13/05/1425 HijriNumber of Articles: 1188Status: In force
Official Gazette :Issue: 11Offcial Journal Issue Publication Date: 08/08/2004 Corresponding to 22/06/1425 HijriPage from: 364
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2nd: Farm Lease

  • 648 Article

     Farming and tree-planted lands may be leased to the tenant on a crop-sharing basis in consideration of part of the crop to the landlord.

  • 649 Article

    Unless otherwise required by agreement or by practice, the provisions of lease shall apply to crop-sharing, subject to the following Articles.

  • 650 Article

     
    Where the term of crop-sharing is not determined, its term shall be such period as required to harvest the agreed crop, if any, or an annual crop rotation.

  • 651 Article

     Cattle and farming tools owned by the landlord which are found on the land at the time of contracting shall form part of the crop-sharing contract.

  • 652 Article

     
    The tenant shall, in farming and keeping the crop, use such care as he would for his own affairs and shall use all reasonable care in maintaining the land and anything thereon or therein.

  • 653 Article

     The tenant may not, without the consent of the landlord, assign the lease to or share it with any other person.

  • 654 Article

     
    1. The tenant shall bear the cultivation expenses and protect the crop until it is ripe. The tenant shall also maintain and make minor repairs to the tools, equipment and buildings.
    2. The tenant shall bear the expenses of other repairs and all necessary improvements to the land.
    3. The parties shall, pro rata to their respective shares in the crop, bear all costs relating to seed and fertilization, pesticides, harvesting, and any other costs incurred until the division of the crop.

  • 655 Article

     
    1. The crop shall be divided between the parties as agreed or according to the practice. In the absence of such agreement or practice, the crop shall be divided equally.
    2. No agreement may be made in terms of which the share of either party is a fixed amount of the crop or the crop of a particular part of the land.

  • 656 Article

     
    Where the crop is lost, either in whole or in part, due to a foreign cause beyond the control of either party, such loss shall be borne equally by both parties.

  • 657 Article

     The provisions of Article 646 herein shall apply where the crop is not yet ripe upon the expiry of the crop-sharing contract. However, the tenant shall not be liable to pay an equivalent rent other than pro rata to his share of the crop.

  • 658 Article

     
    Where the tenant fails to cultivate the land due to illness or for any other reason and it is not possible that he be substituted by any of his family members, either party may demand termination of the contract.

  • 659 Article

     
     
    Crop-sharing shall not terminate on the death of the landlord but it shall terminate on the death of the tenant.

  • 660 Article

     
    1. Where crop-sharing is terminated prior to the expiry of its term, the landlord shall repay to the tenant or to his heirs such costs paid by the tenant for the crop not yet ripe at such termination, plus an indemnity equal to the wage of a similar work, provided that such amounts shall not exceed the share of the tenant in the crop.
    2. However, where crop-sharing is terminated by the death of the tenant, his heirs shall have the option either to collect the above amounts or substitute the tenant in the work until the crop is ripe, provided that such heirs can perform the work properly.

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