Precautionary measures to the benefit of the owner partner

The cultivators, who have entered into farm sharecropping, are not entitled to remove the cereals from the threshing floor, nor extract the wine from the wine press nor remove any other fruits, which are to be shared, without informing the owner or his representative, if he is in the same parish. § 1 - Where the owner or his representative are not available in the parish, the cultivator is permitted to measure the fruits in presence of two honest witnesses. § 2 - If he fails to do the same, he shall pay double the amount payable. § 3 - The seeds are to be deducted from the share of the cultivator, if otherwise not provided.