Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c8.171

c8.171

Besides the already mentioned instances of engaging load carriers and beasts of burden or draughts animals or wagons also the rent for a house, a cistern or a shop etc. is included in the category of hire. He who does not give back at the fixed time these rented properties or hired elephants, camels and other beasts of burden, has to pay for it adequately (Kāty. 15, 19 f¹.). Any injury to a property of the owner must be made good to the owner by the hirer excepting in the case of *force majeure* (Nār. 6, 22). If anybody has built a house on a piece of land not his own he can take away the building materials used for it when evacuating the place only if he has paid the rent of the piece of land to the owner; otherwise he must leave behind the building materials as compensation (Nār. 6, 20 f.).